[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 …

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

Y Xing, 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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] From conspiracy to hesitancy: the longitudinal impact of COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories on perceived vaccine effectiveness

C Salazar-Fernández, MJ Baeza-Rivera… - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The embrace of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine conspiracies has been
linked to vaccine hesitancy. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between COVID …

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 …

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 & …, 2023 - 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 …

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 …

Are rules made to be broken? Conspiracy exposure promotes aggressive behavior

KT Poon, RSW Chan, HS Lai - Political Psychology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals often come across political conspiracy theories in various daily encounters.
Researchers have mainly investigated predictors of conspiracy beliefs; meanwhile, the …

[PDF][PDF] The psychological study of conspiracy theories: Strengths and limitations

JW van Prooijen, R Imhoff - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - research.vu.nl
The psychological study of conspiracy theories: Strengths and limitations Page 1 VU Research
Portal The psychological study of conspiracy theories: Strengths and limitations Prooijen …

Did the Musk takeover boost contentious actors on Twitter?

C Barrie - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.10646, 2022 - arxiv.org
Twitter has been accused of a liberal bias in its account verification and content moderation
policies. Elon Musk pledged, after his acquisition of the company, to promote free speech on …