2023/12/14 by Darja Wischerath, Lukasz Piwek, Jonathan Francis Roscoe +1 · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Neuroscience · Computer Science · #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
paper · pdf · doi:10.31234/osf.io/9wpre
The mainstreaming of conspiracy narratives has been associated with a rise in violent offline harms, from harassment, vandalism of communications infrastructure, assault, and in its most extreme form, terrorist attacks. Group-level emotions of anger, contempt, and disgust have been proposed as a pathway to legitimizing violence. Here, we examine expressions of anger, contempt, and disgust as well as violence, threat, hate, planning, grievance, and paranoia within various conspiracy narratives on Parler. We found significant differences between conspiracy narratives for all measures and narratives associated with higher levels of offline violence showing greater levels of expression.