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SUMMARY:Cultural Convergence in the time of COVID - Alicia Bargar and Erin
  McAweeney\, Graphika
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CONTACT:Jack Hughes
DESCRIPTION:At Graphika\, intelligence analysts and computational research
 ers work together to investigate malicious disinformation campaigns and ex
 tremist groups online. Network science and mapping of complex online netwo
 rks is central to this work. We recently developed a new multi–modal app
 roach to explore the co-evolution of ideas and communities on Twitter duri
 ng the COVID–19 pandemic. We will describe our methodology and how it em
 ploys network science\, topic modeling\, and statistical analysis to detec
 t the convergence of online communities around specific topical narratives
 . We will then elaborate how our results lead to new insights about the sp
 read of health mis- and disinformation within conspiratorial communities i
 n the spring and early summer of 2020.\n\nRelated Links:\n\nblog: https://
 graphika.com/posts/q-tips-measuring-the-mainstreaming-of-qanon-during-the-
 pandemic/\n\npaper:  https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2007/2007.03443.pd
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