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Losing the battle over best-science guidance early in a crisis: Covid-19 and beyond
L. Illari, N. Johnson Restrepo, R. Leahy +3
Ensuring widespread public exposure to best-science guidance is crucial in a crisis, e.g. Covid-19, climate change. Mapping the emitter-receiver dynamics of Covid-19 guidance among…
Online Group Dynamics Reveal New Gel Science
Pedro D. Manrique, Sara El Oud, Neil F. Johnson
A better understanding of how support evolves online for undesirable behaviors such as extremism and hate, could help mitigate future harms. Here we show how the highly irregular g…
Mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and misinformation
N. F. Johnson, N. Velasquez, N. Johnson Restrepo +5
Parents - particularly moms - increasingly consult social media for support when taking decisions about their young children, and likely also when advising other family members suc…
Covid-19 infodemic reveals new tipping point epidemiology and a revised formula
N. F. Johnson, N. Velasquez, O. K. Jha +8
Many governments have managed to control their COVID-19 outbreak with a simple message: keep the effective ' number' to prevent widespread contagion and flatten the curve.…
Hidden order in online extremism and its disruption by nudging collective chemistry
N. F. Johnson, N. Velasquez, P. Manrique +5
We show that the eclectic "Boogaloo" extremist movement that is now rising to prominence in the U.S., has a hidden online mathematical order that is identical to ISIS during its ea…
Hate multiverse spreads malicious COVID-19 content online beyond individual platform control
N. Velásquez, R. Leahy, N. Johnson Restrepo +6
We show that malicious COVID-19 content, including hate speech, disinformation, and misinformation, exploits the multiverse of online hate to spread quickly beyond the control of a…