Cool stuff, Mike. I need to figure out how to get a copy. But the title struck me, b/c it's close to a paper our team wrote, Prochaska et al: "Mobilizing manufactured reality: How participatory disinformation shaped deep stories to catalyze action during the 2020 US presidential election." (cont.)
What's interesting is our teams used different methods to converge on similar findings around the dynamics of disinformation/rumors and political mobilization. We also focused on a slightly early time period (Non/Dec). A link to our paper, in case folks are also interested dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Claims of election fraud throughout the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and during the lead up to the January 6, 2021 insurrection attempt have drawn attention to the urgent need to better understand ...