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This interactive visualisation represents a network of{" "} named entities in English-language posts archived in a database of Telegram channels that have posted about the GESARA conspiracy theory. Each{" "} node represents an entity, edges between nodes indicate that one or more posts contain both entities.

This kind of visualisation shows the ecosystem of the people, organisations, and ideas these conspiracy Telegram channels talk about, as well as the connections between them.

Some Telegram channels were identified by researchers from{" "} Bellingcat {" "}and{" "} Lighthouse Reports , then several rounds of snowball sampling found forwarded channels that have posted about GESARA. The entities were identified using {" "} spaCy .

This web application has been developed by{" "} Bellingcat , using{" "} react {" "} and{" "} sigma.js . You can read the source code{" "} on GitHub .

The network was visualised using{" "} Gephi . The radius of each node is proportional to the number of channels in the database whose posts mention the entity. Nodes are coloured based on a{" "} community detection algorithm . Edges are weighted by the number of posts that mention both entities. For visualisation purposes, edges were pruned using the{" "} Marginal Likelihood Filter .

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