![]() How do conspiracy theories manifest on social media? Let’s take a hurricane as an example. “Joiners” became Reddit users and joined r/conspiracy specifically in response to a crisis or other event.“Converts” were active in other discussions on Reddit and joined r/conspiracy in response to a specific crisis.“Veterans” are long-term active members of r/conspiracy.In a 2018 study ( PDF download) of people who believe in conspiracy theories, Mattia Samory and Tanushree Mitra of Virginia Tech’s computer science department examined 10 years of posts (and four crisis events) in the Reddit community r/conspiracy and defined three types of participants: ![]() The “Benevolent Conspiracies” are angelic forces that work behind the scenes to improve the world and help people.The “Enemy Below” features the lower classes working to overturn the social order.The “Enemy Above” involves powerful people manipulating events for their own gain. ![]()
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