The Cross Heads

Who needs the dark web? Drug sales flourish on social media

For every illegal drug, there is a combination of emojis that dealers and consumers use to evade detection on social media and messaging platforms. Snowflakes, snowfall, and snowmen symbolize cocaine. Love hearts, lightning bolts, and pill capsules mean MDMA, or molly. Brown hearts and dragons represent heroin. Grapes and baby bottles are the calling cards […]

December 18, 2024 | drugs, illegal drugs, Instagram, Policy, snapchat, social media, syndication, telegram | No comments

People will share misinformation that sparks “moral outrage”

Finally, the researchers started analyzing the data to answer questions like whether misinformation sources evoke more outrage, whether outrageous news was shared more often than non-outrageous news, and finally, what reasons people had for sharing outrageous content. And that’s when the idealized picture of honest, truthful citizens who shared misinformation just because they were too […]

December 2, 2024 | Behavioral science, Human behavior, misinformation, rage clicks, Science, social media | No comments

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