Dr Stephen Murphy, from Trinity Business School, said: “The uncertainty and fear caused by the pandemic created the initial spark for conspiracy beliefs to prosper. In both places, there was a lot of anger around lockdown restrictions, vaccinations and the…[Continue Reading...]
A Chinese biological weapon! Bill Gates! 5G! Asterix and Obelix! Five years ago, the coronavirus pandemic saw followers of conspiracy theories going more than a little crazy: they competed to explain who or what was “really” behind it, and who…[Continue Reading...]
Sebastian Shemirani thinks back often to the warning he gave five years ago. Speaking on a BBC podcast he called his mother, the British former nurse and conspiracy theorist Kate Shemirani, a danger to society. “I said someone is going…[Continue Reading...]
Marcus Arduini Monzo, the man responsible for a horror sword attack that killed 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin last year, has been found guilty. The 37-year-old was convicted on Wednesday of carrying out a marauding attack, which included the murder of the…[Continue Reading...]
Conspiracy theorists are creating and training their own artificial intelligence models to create chatbots that help spread their extreme beliefs, as tech companies grapple with fears that the new technology is prompting delusions in some users. Once created, these chatbots…[Continue Reading...]
A series of eight studies has uncovered a consistent pattern among people who believe in conspiracy theories: they tend to be overconfident in their cognitive abilities and significantly overestimate how much others agree with them. The findings, published in Personality…[Continue Reading...]
The prime suspect in the Shakahola massacre, Paul Nthege Mackenzie, used scripture and conspiracy theories to radicalise his followers and advance a doomsday ideology that resulted in the deaths of more than 400 people, a court has heard. Testifying before…[Continue Reading...]
People who believe in conspiracy theories may be more likely to exhibit specific cognitive biases also found in individuals with subclinical delusional thinking, according to a pair of new studies published in Applied Cognitive Psychology. The research found that cognitive…[Continue Reading...]
Model and actress Chrissy Teigen published a seven-post Twitter rant, Tuesday, slamming fringe QAnon supporters for suggesting that she and her husband John Legend run a “pedo ring.” “u know what is not great? I still have to read on…[Continue Reading...]
David Icke is one of the most well-known and controversial conspiracy theorists in the world, gaining popularity back in the 90s. At the time, he’d started spewing theories about “shape-shifting lizards” who present themselves as presidents and monarchs in the…[Continue Reading...]
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