Octopus maps are predominantly ideological and usually convey propaganda, but they are also apt at encouraging conspiratorial thinking, even when it is not explicit.

More information: Eduardo Puerta et al, The Many Tendrils of the Octopus Map, Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2025). DOI: 10.1145/3706598.3713583 ...