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Tanushree Mitra, DAC faculty member and assistant professor of computer science[/caption] What do online conspiracy theorists discuss; what are the recurring elements in these conversations; and what do they tell us about the way people think? As

Tanushree Mitra

, assistant professor of computer science and a faculty member at the

Discovery Analytics Center

, and Mattia Samory, a post doc in the

Department of Computer Science,

set out to find answers, they turned to Reddit, a social media platform of thousands of smaller communities or “subreddits” connecting users with similar interests. Click

here

to read more about Tanu's research.