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Here's the author:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=_OCIc6UAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&citation_for_view=_OCIc6UAAAAJ:lSLTfruPkqcC
And here's a link to the article:
https://seniorcollege.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Conspiracy-theories-2.pdf
I think, looking at the other work by the author, that there was some research going on to manipulate people on line. I find the 55 million quote from the article suspicious, as in Cambridge Analytica suspicious.
"We observed the same dynamics in a study of 55 million Facebook users in the U.S. Users avoid cognitive discord by consuming information that supports their preexisting beliefs, and they share that information widely. Moreover, we found that over time people who embrace conspiracy theories in one domain— say, the (nonexistent) connection between vaccines and autism— will seek out such theories in other domains. Once inside the echo chamber, they tend to embrace the entire conspiracy corpus."