An automated pipeline for the discovery of conspiracy and conspiracy theory narrative frameworks: Bridgegate, Pizzagate and storytelling on the web
Fig 7
A subnetwork of the Pizzagate narrative framework.
Some of the nodes are subnodes (e.g. “Clinton Foundation”), and others are supernodes (e.g. “Pizzagate”). Because we only pick the lead verbs for labeling edges, the contextual meaning of relationships becomes more clear when one considers the entire relationship phrase. For example, the relationship “began” connecting “Pizzagate” to “Hillary Clinton Campaign email….” derives from sentences such as, “What has come to be known as Pizzagate began with the public release of Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta’s emails by WikiLeaks…”. Similarly the edge labeled “threaten” connecting “Alefantis” to the “Pizzagate” supernode is derived from sentences such as, “James Alefantis threatens Pizzagate researcher….”. Here the supernode, “Pizzagate” includes the entity “Pizzagate researcher,” which appears as a subnode.