Folk theories of avoiding content moderation: How vaccine-opposed influencers amplify vaccine opposition on Instagram

RE Moran, I Grasso, K Koltai - Social Media+ Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study analyzes how vaccine-opposed users on Instagram share anti-vaccine content
despite facing growing moderation attempts by the platform. Through a thematic analysis of …

Who knowingly shares false political information online?

S Littrell, C Klofstad, A Diekman… - Harvard …, 2023 - misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu
Implications A growing body of research shows that online misinformation is both easily
accessible (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017; Del Vicario et al., 2016) and can spread quickly …

How a peripheral ideology becomes mainstream: Strategic performance, audience reaction, and news media amplification in the case of QAnon Twitter accounts

Y Zhang, Z Yue, X Yang, F Chen… - new media & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media platforms have been used by various actors to bypass traditional media
gatekeepers to share messages, draw attention, and accumulate influence. We study how …

Human trafficking and the growing malady of disinformation

J Prakash, TB Erickson, H Stoklosa - Frontiers in public health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Disinformation has endangered the most vulnerable communities within our world. The anti-
trafficking movement in particular has been adversely impacted by disinformation tactics …

The Impact of Offspring Hashtags on Semantic Polarization in Online Social Movements: Evidence from the Indian Farmer's Protest

RS Leekha - 2023 - vtechworks.lib.vt.edu
In this work, we investigate the role of offspring hashtags on the semantic polarization of
online discourse between the protest and counter-protest communities over time through the …