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Conspiracy theories abound in today’s world: who killed JFK, who killed Princess Diana, “cover-up” of alien landings, “fake” Apollo moon landings, Covid-19 conspiracy theories, “new world order” conspiracy theories, the […]
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Hurricane Ida, which made landfall in southeast Louisiana on August 29, killed at least five people, leveled homes and left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity. Although scientists believe that […]
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If you are in Afghanistan at the moment, trying to flee or figure out how to survive, it is safe to assume that you have bigger things than the pandemic […]
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Facebook’s twin failures to prevent the spread of extremism and Covid misinformation are combining into a dangerous new trend: Far-right militia groups are embracing and amplifying vaccine conspiracy theories as […]
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On June 26, thousands of people gathered in central London to protest against the U.K. government’s Covid-19 restrictions — never mind that most of the measures were due to be […]
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Extremism Online In this essay series from Items, the SSRC’s digital forum, researchers examine how right-wing extremism ideologies multiply through digital spaces rising in popularity in the West. In order […]
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Americans who believe in the conspiracy theories collectively packaged as “QAnon” have grown quiet in recent months. They gained international notoriety after a large group of believers were among those […]
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Daniel Karell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. He has also been a Weather Scholar at Harvard University (2022-23) and a Fung Global Fellow […]