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描述参与QAnon阴谋论的用户的Reddit参与

Characterizing Reddit Participation of Users Who Engage in the QAnon Conspiracy Theories

Kristen Engel, Yiqing Hua, Taixiang Zeng, Mor Naaman

摘要:

广泛传播的阴谋论可能会对我们的社会产生重大影响。本文重点讨论QAnon阴谋论,这是一种通过社交媒体开始并成功传播的阴谋论。我们的工作描述了参与QAnon的Reddit用户如何参与平台上的活动,特别是在他们自己的社区之外。以2018年针对QAnon相关活动的大规模Reddit审核行动为来源,我们确定了早期QAnon社区中活跃的13,000名用户。我们收集了这些用户在2016年10月至2021年1月期间在Reddit上发布的210万条提交和1080万条评论。这些用户中的大多数只是在QAnon阴谋论出现后才活跃起来,而在Reddit 2018年禁止QAnon之后,他们的活跃度有所下降。对915个“QAnon热情”用户特别活跃的subreddits样本的定性分析表明,他们参与了各种各样的subreddits,通常与QAnon无关的主题。然而,大多数用户的意见书都集中在对阴谋论持同情态度的subreddits上,其特点是支持特朗普的讨论,或强调不受约束的行为(通常是反建制和反干预主义者)。对其中1,571个提交的样本的进一步研究表明,大多数链接来自低质量的来源,对更广泛的Reddit社区带来了潜在的危害。这些结果表明,早期QAnon用户在Reddit上的活动可能是致力于阴谋的,这对平台审核设计和未来的研究都有影响。

英文摘要:

Widespread conspiracy theories may significantly impact our society. This paper focuses on the QAnon conspiracy theory, a consequential conspiracy theory that started on and disseminated successfully through social media. Our work characterizes how Reddit users who have participated in QAnon-focused subreddits engage in activities on the platform, especially outside their own communities. Using a large-scale Reddit moderation action against QAnon-related activities in 2018 as the source, we identified 13,000 users active in the early QAnon communities. We collected the 2.1 million submissions and 10.8 million comments posted by these users across all of Reddit from October 2016 to January 2021. The majority of these users were only active after the emergence of the QAnon Conspiracy theory and decreased in activity after Reddit's 2018 QAnon ban. A qualitative analysis of a sample of 915 subreddits where the "QAnon-enthusiastic" users were especially active shows that they participated in a diverse range of subreddits, often of unrelated topics to QAnon. However, most of the users' submissions were concentrated in subreddits that have sympathetic attitudes towards the conspiracy theory, characterized by discussions that were pro-Trump, or emphasized unconstricted behavior (often anti-establishment and anti-interventionist). Further study of a sample of 1,571 of these submissions indicates that most consist of links from low-quality sources, bringing potential harm to the broader Reddit community. These results point to the likelihood that the activities of early QAnon users on Reddit were dedicated and committed to the conspiracy, providing implications on both platform moderation design and future research.

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