Conspiracy theories and social media platforms.

Communication Humans Social Media
Conspiracy Theories Echo Platforms Polarization Social Media Platforms

Journal

Current opinion in psychology
ISSN: 2352-2518
Titre abrégé: Curr Opin Psychol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101649136

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 2022
Historique:
received: 13 05 2022
revised: 17 06 2022
accepted: 20 06 2022
pubmed: 23 7 2022
medline: 14 10 2022
entrez: 22 7 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Conspiracy theories proliferate online. We provide an overview of information consumption patterns related to conspiracy content on four mainstream social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit), with a focus on niche ones. Opinion polarisation and echo chambers appear as pivotal elements of communication around conspiracy theories. A relevant role may also be played by the content moderation policies enforced by each social media platform. Banning contents or users from a social media could lead to a level of user segregation that goes beyond echo chambers and reaches the entire social media space, up to the formation of 'echo platforms'. The insurgence of echo platforms is a new online phenomenon that needs to be investigated as it could foster many dangerous phenomena that we observe online, including the spreading of conspiracy theories.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101407 PMID: 35868169
pubmed: 35868169
pii: S2352-250X(22)00128-2
doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101407
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

101407

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Conflict of interest statement Nothing declared.

Auteurs

Matteo Cinelli (M)

Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Computer Science Viale Regina Elena, 295, 00100 Rome, Italy.

Gabriele Etta (G)

Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Computer Science Viale Regina Elena, 295, 00100 Rome, Italy.

Michele Avalle (M)

Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Computer Science Viale Regina Elena, 295, 00100 Rome, Italy.

Alessandro Quattrociocchi (A)

Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Computer Science Viale Regina Elena, 295, 00100 Rome, Italy.

Niccolò Di Marco (N)

University of Florence, - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Viale Giovanni Battista Morgagni, 67/a, 50134 Florence, Italy.

Carlo Valensise (C)

Enrico Fermi Research Center, Piazza del Viminale 1, Rome 00184, Italy.

Alessandro Galeazzi (A)

Ca' Foscari, University of Venice - Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Via Torino 155, 30172 Mestre Italy.

Walter Quattrociocchi (W)

Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Computer Science Viale Regina Elena, 295, 00100 Rome, Italy. Electronic address: walterquattrociocchi@gmail.com.

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