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Notes
1 We used the following search string on the publisher’s search engine: [Publication Title: twitter] OR [Publication Title: whatsapp] AND [Article Type: Article] AND [in Journal: Digital Journalism]. For the Web of Science data: TI=(Twitter OR WhatsApp) AND WC=(Communication).
2 Majority world and minority world refer to regions using populations, instead of geographically bounded, inaccurate terms like global south and north (Wahutu, Deng & Osman Citation2023). The former includes Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East while the latter includes North America, Europe and Australasia.