TY - BOOK AU - Béliard,Anne-Sophie AU - Figeac,Julien AU - Bideau,Laëtitia TI - The conflictuality of controversies on social media: Tensions, self-censorship, and the transformation of public debate PY - 2025///. N1 - 9 N2 - 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 UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-empan-2025-4-page-57?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -