Why people believe Covid conspiracy theories: could folklore hold the answer?
by Anna Leach and Miles Probyn from Technology | The Guardian on (#5R51K)
Researchers use AI - and witchcraft folklore - to map the coronavirus conspiracy theories that have sprung up
Researchers have mapped the web of connections underpinning coronavirus conspiracy theories, opening a new way of understanding and challenging them.
Using Danish witchcraft folklore as a model, the researchers from UCLA and Berkeley analysed thousands of social media posts with an artificial intelligence tool and extracted the key people, things and relationships.