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 …

How social media disrupts institutions: Exploring the intersection of online disinformation, digital materiality and field-level change

DJ Davis, TE Beck - Information and Organization, 2023 - Elsevier
The diffusion of disinformation via social media has become a pressing societal concern for
business leaders and policy makers. In recent years, online disinformation has been …

“Memes Save Lives”: stigma and the production of antivaccination memes during the COVID-19 pandemic

SA Baker, MJ Walsh - Social Media+ Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Disinformation research is increasingly concerned with the hierarchies and conditions that
enable the strategic production of false and misleading content online. During the COVID-19 …

“We Are in Control”: Instagram Influencers and the Proliferation of Conspiracy Narratives in Digital Spaces

M Heřmanová - Slovenský národopis, 2022 - ceeol.com
Female spiritual influencers on Instagram engage with conspiracy content and appeal to the
issue of control over female bodies to bridge the gap between mainstream and fringe online …

A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Women's Health Misinformation on Social Media

LM Malki, D Patel, A Singh - IFIP Conference on Human-Computer …, 2023 - Springer
Propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic and recent overturning of Roe vs. Wade in the United
States, concerns have grown around the proliferation of reproductive health misinformation …

Uncovering gender stereotypes in controversial science discourse: evidence from computational text and visual analyses across digital platforms

K Chen, Z Duan, SJ Kim - Journal of Computer-Mediated …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This study examines how gender stereotypes are reflected in discourses around
controversial science issues across two platforms, YouTube and TikTok. Utilizing the Social …

Politicisation of the domestic: Populist narratives about COVID-19 among influencers

M Heřmanová - Media and Communication, 2022 - cogitatiopress.com
The article analyses the proliferation of narratives about Covid-19 as an orchestrated
political event among female lifestyle influencers on Czech Instagram. As the Covid-19 …

Less than 4% of archived Instagram account pages for the disinformation dozen are replayable

H Bragg, HR Jayanetti, ML Nelson… - 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We examined the archived Instagram account pages of the “Disinformation Dozen”, a group
of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists, along with account pages of a set of health authorities …

Simple solutions to wicked problems: Cultivating true believers of anti-vaccine conspiracies during the COVID-19 pandemic

SA Baker, E McLaughlin… - European Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The pandemic has produced an abundance of medical misinformation, disinformation and
conspiracy theories about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Many of these narratives …

Focusing on the Child's Best Interest and the Rejection of Protective Measures: Antifeminism and Pandemic Denial in the COVID-19 Pandemic

R Blum - German Politics and Society, 2023 - berghahnjournals.com
This article shows how antifeminism manifested during the covid-19 pandemic and played
an integrative role for pandemic-deniers. It first explains how antifeminism was understood …