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The climate lockdown conspiracy: You can’t fact-check possibility

Author:
Murphy, Michael P. A.
Publication:
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
Year:
2024

The climate lockdown conspiracies claim that a clandestine group of elites are planning to use climate change as a justification to enact widespread lockdowns and curtail freedoms. This conspiracy draws on a wide range of unconnected real-world events and suggests that their possibility of happening again is all the proof required. The focus on possibility