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QAnon proponent and Trump supporters

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Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.

by Nicolas Guilhot via Boston Review on August 23, 2021

Still from the Zapruder film made to appear as if it is in the crosshairs of a gun

Conspiracy Theories and Fake News from JFK to Pizzagate

Retro Report explores decades of conspiracy theories -- from the John F. Kennedy assassination to Pizzagate -- and what they can tell us about the world today.

via Retro Report on April 28, 2017

Illustration, The Burning of the Convent in 1834.

The Banality of Conspiracy Theories

Moral panics repeat, again and again.

by Colin Dickey via The Atlantic on July 1, 2023

QAnon and the Satanic Panics of Yesteryear

What they can teach us about what to expect.

by Daniel N. Gullotta via The Bulwark on February 25, 2021

QAnon Didn't Just Spring Forth From the Void

Calling QAnon a "cult" or "religion" hides how its practices are born of deeply American social and political traditions.

by Adam Willems, Megan Goodwin via Religion Dispatches on September 10, 2020

What Facebook Did to American Democracy

And why it was so hard to see it coming.

by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on October 12, 2017

African American women factory workers in heavy industry.

Lessons From the Fake News Pandemic of 1942

The South couldn't stop the rumors. Can we?

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on March 12, 2017

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