Total visits, desktop and mobile web aggregated TRUE ( N = 16) if website is labeled as pro-science If TRUE ( N = 58), website is conspiracyįor conspiracy websites only. Overall number of webpages in website obtained by Google search (see “ Website metrics” section)

TRUE ( N = 4227) if the conspiracy document is representativeĬosine similarity values for conspiracy documents (values > mean + 1 SD are considered representative) Occurrences count for the word “conspir*” in text, see “Mentioning conspiracy” ” section The topic ID with highest gamma value within k300 LDA ( N = 300 unique, e.g., k300_192) The topic ID with highest gamma value within k200 LDA ( N = 200 unique, e.g., k200_75) The topic ID with highest gamma value within k100 LDA ( N = 100 unique, e.g., k100_24) The date the webpage was uploaded or uploaded (format: YYYY-MM-DD)Įither conspiracy or mainstream ( N conspiracy = 23,937 N mainstream = 72,806).ĭocument text (see text statistics in Table Table2 2) The page was returned by all the keywords listed in this variable ( N = 47) The website from which the document was extracted The first character stores the source: C stands for conspiracy (e.g., C0004d) and M stands for mainstream (e.g., M095eb) Six-character hexadecimal sequence of document unique identification number. Variable name (% empty/missing values, if any)

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