Photo by History in HD on Unsplash In 2011, Donald Trump went on Fox News and made a claim that started an absolute wildfire in the conspiracy theory community. A theory that had been floating around the internet for years finally got the exposure it needed, and Birtherism erupted, engulfing half of the Republican partyContinue reading “Birtherism – How Desperation and Fear Created a New Ideology”
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A Case Study in Misinformation: Chemtrails in the UK
Photo by Joachim Süß on Unsplash The fact that my spell checker doesn’t recognize “chemtrails” as a word should tell you something about their existence, but here we are… On September 7th, a Facebook user in the UK posted a video of him removing a reddish-colored layer of sand off his car with a magnet.Continue reading “A Case Study in Misinformation: Chemtrails in the UK”