The scenario
Models a Facebook user's journey from initial exposure to QAnon-adjacent content through algorithmic engagement boosting, group join, echo chamber formation, and eventual radicalization unless moderation intervenes.
What is in this drawing
Read the decisions behind it.
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Does the user engage with QAnon-adjacent content?
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Does the user continue engaging with increasingly extreme content?
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Does platform moderation/fact-checking intervene?
Use to explain algorithmic radicalization pathways on engagement-driven social platforms, inform moderation policy design, or train content moderators and analysts.
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