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The academic concept of collective behaviour is used in fields like sociology

to understand how large groups of humans or animals interact without any clear leader.

Sometimes, these interactions can be harmless, like a crowd doing away of a soccer game.

Or incredibly harmful, like the stock market crashing.

Collective behaviour can also help us understand how we as a society are reforming because of new technologies.

A new research paper published in a prestigious science journal

argues that the way we use social media every day is having unprecedented effects

which can be dire on our society as a whole.

Like the ability to rapidly spread misinformation about COVID-19 or the US elections.

Academics across very different fields say that we should be treating this like a crisis discipline,

akin to climate change.

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