An automated pipeline for the discovery of conspiracy and conspiracy theory narrative frameworks: Bridgegate, Pizzagate and storytelling on the web
Fig 8
Identification of the Pizzagate narrative framework from the Pizzagate corpus.
Subnodes with a mention frequency count < 265 and their edges are removed from the community-partitioned network obtained from Algorithm 1 (See Fig 10 for the network before filtering). Solid nodes are core nodes, while nodes without color, such as “fbi”, are non-core nodes. Colors are based on the core nodes’ assigned community, while all relationships are collapsed to a single edge. These core nodes have an assignment based on the threshold, while open shared nodes have an assignment based on
threshold (see Algorithm 1). Pizzagate subnodes are concatenated into their supernodes, and are outlined in red, while the subnodes retain their community coloring. Contextual communities are shaded with yellow, metanarrative with blue, nucleations with green, and unrelated discussions with purple.