Researcher · misinformation, platforms, political communication

Sudhamshu Hosamane

Doctoral researcher at Rutgers studying how political talk — and political mistruths — travel through the encrypted, semi-private platforms that increasingly mediate it. My work joins computational social science to field experiments, with recent attention to hate-speech campaigns on Philippine Facebook and misinformation corrections on Indian WhatsApp.

Now

Reading: Network Propaganda — Benkler, Faris & Roberts
Writing: A chapter on hate-speech campaigns in the 2016 Philippine elections
Working on: Adaptive field-experimental tools for misinformation correction on WhatsApp
Listening: The Lawfare podcast — content moderation and elections series

Recent writing

The Quiet Politics of File Formats

infrastructure

standards

EXIF tags, JSON-LD, and the schemas no one reads do more governance work than most policy memos.

Apr 14, 2026

3 min

Auditors Without Power

audit

governance

Why the audit has become the dominant aesthetic of AI accountability — and what that obscures.

Feb 02, 2026

1 min

On the Disappearance of the Default

notes

A short note on the politics of preselected options, and the long shadow they cast on consent.

Jan 09, 2026

1 min

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Selected work

2026: Evaluating Peer Fact-Checking on WhatsApp
Sudhamshu Hosamane, Kriti Sharma, Tanvi Goyal, Molly Offer-Westort, Kiran Garimella · Proceedings of CHI ’26
2025: Hate Speech Campaigns in the 2016 Philippine Elections on Facebook
Sudhamshu Hosamane, Kiran Garimella · Proceedings of ICWSM ’25

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