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A growing body of research suggests that human behavior on social media — coordinated activism, information cascades, harassment mobs — bears striking similarity to this kind of so-called “emergent behavior” in nature: occasions when organisms like birds or fish or ants act as a cohesive unit, without hierarchical direction from a designated leader.
How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks of Birds | NOEMA
Renée DiResta
In 2015, recommendation engines had already begun to connect people interested in just about any conspiracy theory — anti-vaccine interests, chemtrails, flat earth — to each other, creating a sort of inadvertent conspiracy correlation matrix that cross-pollinated members of distinct alternate universes.
How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks of Birds | NOEMA
Renée DiResta
Men cannot leap the great gaps, but ideas can.”
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
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