Justin B. Phillips
List of John Benjamins publications in which Justin B. Phillips is involved.
Articles
2025 “Thoughts & prayers,” conspiracy theories, and laughing emojis: Facebook comments on the attempted assassination of President Trump Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
This article examines online responses to the 14 July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Using large language model embeddings and machine learning algorithms, we analyze 26 thousand Facebook comments in near real-time reacting to “breaking news” stories from six national mainstream… read more
2021 Recursion theory and the ‘death tax’: Investigating a fake news discourse in the 2019 Australian election Discourses of Fake News, Wright, Scott (ed.), pp. 696–718 | Article
Since the 2016 US federal election, political actors have weaponized online fake news as a means of gaining electoral advantage (Egelhofer and Lecheler 2019). To advance understandings of the actors and methods involved in perpetuating fake news, this article focuses on an Australian story that… read more