How Social Media Machinery Pulled Mainstream Parenting Communities Closer to Extremes and Their Misinformation During Covid-19

How Social Media Machinery Pulled Mainstream Parenting Communities Closer to Extremes and Their Misinformation During Covid-19

We reveal hidden social media machinery that has allowed misinformation to thrive among mainstream users, but which is missing from current policy discussions. Specifically, we show how mainstream parenting communities on Facebook have been subject to a powerful, two-pronged misinformation machinery...

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Main Authors: Nicholas J. Restrepo, Lucia Illari, Rhys Leahy, Richard F. Sear, Yonatan Lupu, Neil F. Johnson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
Subjects:
COVID-19
dynamical systems
misinformation
online
social computing
social media
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9663381/

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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9663381/

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