Christopher Elliott, founder of Elliott Advocacy, is a nonprofit organization that empowers consumers to solve their problems. The internet has been hacked, and accounts associated with the site and its founder have been suspended. The Daily Expose, founded in November 2020, publishes Covid-19 conspiracy and anti-vaccination news. The Daily Conspiracy, a British far-right and conspiracy theory newspaper, promotes conspiracies and spreads distorted claims about voter fraud and the Black population.
The Epoch Times, a popular conservative news organization in the U.S., is powered by Falun Gong, a religious group persecuted in China. The Light, a self-published, monthly British far-right newspaper, publishes 100,000 copies a month and shares calls for war-crime-style trials of MPs and doctors. Fake news websites intentionally publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire.
Conspiration theories have legitimized violence, impaired public health, and undermined democratic governance. Containing their harms begins with psychological research on how conspiracy theories start, why they persist, who is most likely to believe them, and whether they legitimize violence or undermine democratic governance.
A faulty software update to an antivirus program operating on Microsoft Windows caused technology outages across the country. A project is developing training with and for young people to challenge divisive and hateful conspiracy theories and fake news. Researchers who track online conspiracies say liberals are now vulnerable to and generating QAnon-like bursts of misinformation.
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Conspiracy theories have been around for ages, and most of the time they are laughed about and pushed to the side.
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