{"id":3437,"date":"2021-10-26T07:37:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T05:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/26\/why-people-believe-covid-conspiracy-theories-could-folklore-hold-the-answer\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T07:37:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T05:37:41","slug":"why-people-believe-covid-conspiracy-theories-could-folklore-hold-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/26\/why-people-believe-covid-conspiracy-theories-could-folklore-hold-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why people believe Covid conspiracy theories: could folklore hold the answer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers use AI \u2013 and witchcraft folklore \u2013 to map the coronavirus conspiracy theories that have sprung up<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have mapped the web of connections underpinning coronavirus conspiracy theories, opening a new way of understanding and challenging them. <\/p>\n<p>Using Danish witchcraft folklore as a model, the researchers from UCLA and Berkeley analysed thousands of social media posts with an artificial intelligence tool and extracted the key people, things and relationships.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2021\/oct\/26\/why-people-believe-covid-conspiracy-theories-could-folklore-hold-the-answer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/02083ad963756a219ac8c846cd17ac37e65dbf12\/0_0_1280_768\/master\/1280.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0b70878d22cc57b13750ef573732d8f4\" title=\"Why people believe Covid conspiracy theories: could folklore hold the answer?\" \/>Researchers use AI \u2013 and witchcraft folklore \u2013 to map the coronavirus conspiracy theories that have sprung up<br \/>\nResearchers have mapped the web of connections underpinning coronavirus conspiracy theories, opening a new way of understanding and challenging them.<br \/>\nUsing Danish witchcraft folklore as a model, the researchers from UCLA and Berkeley analysed thousands of social media posts with an artificial intelligence tool and extracted the key people, things and relationships. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers use AI \u2013 and witchcraft folklore \u2013 to map the coronavirus conspiracy theories that have sprung up Researchers have mapped the web of connections underpinning coronavirus conspiracy theories, opening a new way of understanding and challenging them. Using Danish witchcraft folklore as a model, the researchers from UCLA and Berkeley analysed thousands of social &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/26\/why-people-believe-covid-conspiracy-theories-could-folklore-hold-the-answer\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why people believe Covid conspiracy theories: could folklore hold the answer?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}