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Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language of Online Conspiracies with INSEAD Professor Henrich R. Greve

Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language of Online Conspiracies with INSEAD Professor Henrich R. Greve17 sept.56 min

<p><em>Ctrl+Alt+Doubt</em> offers a new way to understand why conspiracy theories grow and persist. </p><p>Rather than treating them as cognitive errors, psychological pathologies, or products of echo chambers, Rao and Greve analyze conspiracy theories as linguistic constructions—stories built from recognizable semantic patterns. </p><p><br></p><p>Using tools from distributional semantics, they map the semantic space of conspiracy talk and show how meanings are assembled, recombined, and diffused online.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Book Link:</strong></p><p>https://amzn.eu/d/0bzPaFXC</p>