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We analyzed the headlines/titles on 23 news sites for the presence of terms related to these conspiracy theories. Dataset was constructed from links on each site's official English Twitter account(s); additional searches were used to fill gaps in Fox/Infowars.
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@ZellaQuixote This table shows the number of times each site mentioned each term in a headline, with the caveat that not all uses are conspiracy promotion. RT is the most common frequent flier (Skripals, Syria, and chemtrails) and nobody seems to give a duck about directed energy weapons.
@ZellaQuixote Same thing, this time with the most frequent topic for each source highlighted. For mainstream sites, this is generally the vaccine category (the content isn't #antivax.) For all three Russian sites as well as the BBC, the Skripal poisoning is topic #1, followed by Syria.
