Information-sharing practices on Facebook during the 2017 French presidential campaign: An "unreliable information bubble" within the extreme right
Julien Figeac
(1)
,
Nikos Smyrnaios
(2)
,
Tristan Salord
(3)
,
Guillaume Cabanac
(3, 4)
,
Ophélie Fraisier
(3)
,
Pierre Ratinaud
(2)
,
Fanny Seffusatti
(1)
Julien Figeac
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Nikos Smyrnaios
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Tristan Salord
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Guillaume Cabanac
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Ophélie Fraisier
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Pierre Ratinaud
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Résumé
This research explores the spread of unreliable information on Face-book during the 2017 French presidential campaign. By analyzing information sharing behavior on 252 Facebook pages, our study highlights the wide variety of information sources shared by several political communities, notably news published by partisan websites or activist blogs. Our results demonstrate that political parties-particularly, those on the extreme ends of the political spectrum-tend to re-share a large amount of information reflecting the same ideological positions as their own. This trend is amplified by a phenomenon of endo-citation, that is, a "circular circulation" of information between Facebook pages within the same political community. Our results focus on the information practices of the far-right, tracing a clear over-representation of sources that are unreliable or likely to relay disinformation. We argue that this circular transmission of information creates an "unreliable information bubble" that characterizes far-right information-sharing behavior.
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Information-sharing practices on Facebook during the 2017 French presidential campaign: An "unreliable information bubble" within the extreme right
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Résumé |
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This research explores the spread of unreliable information on Face-book during the 2017 French presidential campaign. By analyzing information sharing behavior on 252 Facebook pages, our study highlights the wide variety of information sources shared by several political communities, notably news published by partisan websites or activist blogs. Our results demonstrate that political parties-particularly, those on the extreme ends of the political spectrum-tend to re-share a large amount of information reflecting the same ideological positions as their own. This trend is amplified by a phenomenon of endo-citation, that is, a "circular circulation" of information between Facebook pages within the same political community. Our results focus on the information practices of the far-right, tracing a clear over-representation of sources that are unreliable or likely to relay disinformation. We argue that this circular transmission of information creates an "unreliable information bubble" that characterizes far-right information-sharing behavior.
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Auteur(s) |
Julien Figeac
1
, Nikos Smyrnaios
2
, Tristan Salord
3
, Guillaume Cabanac
3, 4
, Ophélie Fraisier
3
, Pierre Ratinaud
2
, Fanny Seffusatti
1
1
LISST -
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires
( 44429 )
- Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès Maison de la Recherche 5 Allées Antonio Machado 31058 TOULOUSE CEDEX 9
- France
2
LERASS -
Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches Appliquées en Sciences Sociales
( 91848 )
- 115D route de Narbonne
BP 67701
31077 Toulouse CEDEX 4
- France
3
IRIT-IRIS -
Recherche d’Information et Synthèse d’Information
( 1001827 )
- IRIT
118 Route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex 9
- France
4
UT3 -
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
( 217752 )
- 118 route de Narbonne - 31062 Toulouse
- France
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URL éditeur |
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/comm/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-commun-2019-0193/article-10.1515-commun-2019-0193.xml
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Audience |
Internationale
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Date de publication |
2020-10-14
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Volume |
45
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Numéro |
s1
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Page/Identifiant |
648-670
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Mots-clés |
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social media, political participation, ideological polarization, unrelia- ble information, online activism
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DOI | 10.1515/commun-2019-0193 |
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