Table 1.
Lexical categories used from Empath mapped to factors associated with conspiratorial belief.
Fig 1.
Differences between the r/conspiracy group and the matched controls.
Differences between the r/conspiracy group and the matched control group by: (a) language use, including all Empath categories with significant positive (red) and negative (blue) differences and Cohen’s d>0.2; (b) posting differences by theme community given by user-count ratio and post-count ratio; and (c) differences in language use accounting for theme community. Positive (red) and negative (blue) differences are colored where Cohen’s d>0.2. Grey circles indicate significance which did not reach the effect size threshold.
Table 2.
Theme communities.
Fig 2.
Chronological posting patterns.
Examples of chronological posting patterns among r/conspiracy (orange, above) and control group (cyan, below) users for selected subreddits in the “Guns & Cars” theme community. Numbers within semi-circles are the total number of users posting in the subreddit; numbers above and below arcs are the number of users with contiguous chronological posts in two subreddits (from left to right).