Conspiracy theories and social media platforms

M Cinelli, G Etta, M Avalle, A Quattrociocchi… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Conspiracy theories proliferate online. We provide an overview of information consumption
patterns related to conspiracy content on four mainstream social media platforms (Facebook …

A Literature Review of Video-Sharing Platform Research in HCI

A Bartolome, S Niu - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Video-sharing platforms (VSPs) such as YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch have grown rapidly in
recent years and attracted millions of users. Research topics such as online communities …

Subscriptions and external links help drive resentful users to alternative and extremist YouTube channels

AY Chen, B Nyhan, J Reifler, RE Robertson… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Do online platforms facilitate the consumption of potentially harmful content? Using paired
behavioral and survey data provided by participants recruited from a representative sample …

Twitter flagged Donald Trump's tweets with election misinformation: They continued to spread both on and off the platform

Z Sanderson, MA Brown… - Harvard …, 2021 - misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu
Implications Much like four years ago, evidence throughout the 2020 US elections suggests
that misinformation related to the presidential campaign once again circulated widely on and …

Reviewing interventions to address misinformation: the need to expand our vision beyond an individualistic focus

Z Aghajari, EPS Baumer, D DiFranzo - … of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Prior work has identified a variety of factors that drive the way people identify and respond to
misinformation. Such factors include confirmation bias, perceived credibility of the …

Youtube, the great radicalizer? auditing and mitigating ideological biases in youtube recommendations

M Haroon, A Chhabra, X Liu, P Mohapatra… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recommendations algorithms of social media platforms are often criticized for placing users
in" rabbit holes" of (increasingly) ideologically biased content. Despite these concerns, prior …

" I Got Flagged for Supposed Bullying, Even Though It Was in Response to Someone Harassing Me About My Disability.": A Study of Blind TikTokers' Content …

Y Lyu, J Cai, A Callis, K Cotter, JM Carroll - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community has consistently focused on the
experiences of users moderated by social media platforms. Recently, scholars have noticed …

Over-time trends in incivility on social media: evidence from political, non-political, and mixed sub-reddits over eleven years

Q Sun, M Wojcieszak, S Davidson - Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Incivility in social media has become a major concern of the public, who perceive uncivil
online interactions to be both widespread and increasing. This study provides a descriptive …

Election fraud, YouTube, and public perception of the legitimacy of President Biden

J Bisbee, M Brown, A Lai, R Bonneau… - Journal of Online Trust …, 2022 - tsjournal.org
Skepticism about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in the United States led to a
historic attack on the Capitol on January 6th, 2021 and represents one of the greatest …

Paved with bad intentions: QAnon's save the children campaign

C Buntain, MD Barlow, M Bloom… - Journal of Online Trust and …, 2022 - tsjournal.org
In the lead-up to the 2020 US presidential election, adherents to QAnon conspiracy theories
parlayed the “Save the Children” slogan from a well-known charity into a vector for exposure …