Béliard, Anne-Sophie <br/><br/>
The conflictuality of controversies on social media: Tensions, self-censorship, and the transformation of public debate 

 -  2025.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> This article analyzes the dynamics of conflictuality structuring controversies on social media during the Covid-19 crisis. A number of mechanisms are contributing to the rise in tensions online: information overload, the transformation of debates into polarized confrontations, the influence of algorithms in radicalizing exchanges, and growing distrust of institutions. Logics of engagement, withdrawal, or self-censorship are restructuring forms of online participation, and conflictuality is becoming an ordinary mode of interaction.