Women with advanced degrees should leave the United States immediately.” That’s how one left-wing TikTok influencer responded ...

Conspiracy theories have been with us for ages, and they seem to be becoming more absurd as time goes on. But how and why do people end up falling for these absurd ideas, and why is it so hard to talk ...

New pan-European research has shown that the spread of conspiracy theories across the continent is driven by a continuous ...

A five-year study dispels the stereotype of conspiracy theorists as angry loners or keyboard warriors. Rather, social and emotional connections provided by conspiracy theorists are recruiting diverse ...

Navigating the labyrinth of conspiracy theories is like wandering through a hall of mirrors—distorted reflections of reality vary widely in their plausibility and strangeness. Some theories entertain ...

The Illuminati still rule the world, the Moon landings were fake, and Elvis is alive and working as a preacher. When it comes to conspiracy theories, there is no shortage of weird and wacky ...

Mike Rothschild has spent years studying the rise of QAnon and antivaccine conspiracism. After his house in Altadena, California, burned down, he found himself mired in similarly sticky webs of ...

Every day, physicians and therapists work to keep their patients safe. Medical rumors, misinformation, and an online web of disreputable sources aren’t making their jobs any easier. As anyone who has ...

Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories have infested British universities.

The internet seems to contain a dizzying array of conspiracy theories, which range from the almost credible to the frankly paranoid and bizarre. Some are harmless, like the Lunar Landing classic, or ...

QAnon began in the internet's darkest corners. Now it's set to enter Congress. It was a statement that shocked almost everyone watching. For a few, it was a moment a long time coming. When pressed ...

We live in a hugely fractured information environment, which might help explain why conspiracy theories pop up around basically every major news event. The shooting death of Charlie Kirk was no ...