Diving into the divide: a systematic review of cognitive bias-based polarization on social media

Y **ng, JZ Zhang, VC Storey… - Journal of Enterprise …, 2024‏ - emerald.com
Purpose The global prevalence of social media and its potential to cause polarization are
highly debated and impactful. The previous literature often assumes that the ideological bias …

[HTML][HTML] Selfie-related incidents: narrative review and media content analysis

S Cornell, R Brander, A Peden - Journal of medical internet research, 2023‏ - jmir.org
Background Selfie-related injury has become a public health concern amid the near
ubiquitous use of smartphones and social media apps. Of particular concern are selfie …

The systemic impact of deplatforming on social media

A Mekacher, M Falkenberg, A Baronchelli - PNAS nexus, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Deplatforming, or banning malicious accounts from social media, is a key tool for moderating
online harms. However, the consequences of deplatforming for the wider social media …

Identifying and characterizing behavioral classes of radicalization within the qanon conspiracy on Twitter

EL Wang, L Luceri, F Pierri, E Ferrara - Proceedings of the international …, 2023‏ - ojs.aaai.org
Social media provide a fertile ground where conspiracy theories and radical ideas can
flourish, reach broad audiences, and sometimes lead to hate or violence beyond the online …

Earthquake conspiracy discussion on Twitter

D Erokhin, N Komendantova - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Natural disasters like earthquakes, and global crises like pandemics have historically
captured the public's imagination and prompted people to seek explanations. However, in …

The effects of algorithmic content selection on user engagement with news on Twitter

E Dujeancourt, M Garz - The Information Society, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we investigate how Twitter's switch from a reverse-chronological timeline to
algorithmic content selection in March 2016 influenced user engagement with tweets …

What do 5G networks, Bill Gates, Agenda 21, and QAnon have in common? Sources, distribution, and characteristics

I Himelboim, P Borah, DKL Lee, J Lee… - new media & …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Mounting uncertainties regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the
popularity of social media created fertile grounds for conspiracy theories to flourish, leading …

Symbolic threat from the West, belief in pro‐Kremlin conspiracy theories, and attribution of blame for the war in Ukraine: A two‐wave longitudinal study

J Šrol, V Čavojová - Political Psychology, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this two‐wave longitudinal study, we examined the sense of symbolic threat from the West
and Russia as ideological roots of motivated belief in pro‐Kremlin conspiracy theories and …

Truth social dataset

P Gerard, N Botzer, T Weninger - … AAAI Conference on Web and Social …, 2023‏ - ojs.aaai.org
Formally announced to the public following former President Donald Trump's bans and
suspensions from mainstream social networks in early 2022 following his role in the January …

Insight in the conspiracist's mind

S Van de Cruys, J Bervoets, S Gadsby… - Personality and …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Academic Abstract The motto of the conspiracist,“Do your own research,” may seem
ludicrous to scientists. Indeed, it is often dismissed as a mere rhetorical device that …