The study says the influence of high-profile conspiracy theorists during climate disasters is drowning out emergency response ...

A five-year study dispels the stereotype of conspiracy theorists as angry loners or keyboard warriors. Rather, social and ...

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes BKC-Nieman Fellow Ben Reininga and Nieman Fellow Jesselyn Cook to share their insights into how platforms navigate the spread of conspiracy theories, ...

As conspiracy theories proliferate, Republicans in Congress are attempting to ban the development of weather-modification ...

As of 2022, 59% of Americans think that people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories today than 25 years ago, and 73% of Americans think conspiracy theories are “out of control.” ...

It's not that believers in conspiracy theories are massively overconfident; there is no data on that, because the studies ...

But the leading theories about those hidden events are heavily conditioned by ideological impulses. MAGA activists and ...