Our goal was to collect data that will help determine where, how and through whom misinformation and conspiracy theories ...

These 12 theories were too crazy to be true—until they weren’t. Laughing at crazy conspiracy theories is good fun—until they ...

Kristin Cavallari, who recently spoke about Hollywood conspiracy theories, claiming Britney Spears and Kanye West are clones, ...

Tucker Carlson says ‘demons’ invented nukes, days after claiming he w ...

In today’s political climate, conspiracy theories are commonplace. But they’re nothing new. In the 1960s, the John Birch ...

The Veilguard has a hidden easter egg board that players think is about the series and and trying to decipher.

In the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton, an outlandish conspiracy theory about the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

Writing in 1964, Hofstadter connected the dots between eruptions of panic about the Illuminati and Freemasonry through anti-Catholic conspiracy theories up to the anti-communist hysteria of the ...

Large numbers of noncitizens voting. With less than two weeks before Election Day, a resurgence in conspiracy theories and misinformation about voting is forcing state and local election officials ...

How do conspiracy theories gain traction, and what are the consequences of their active proliferation and deliberate promotion? Our recent study (Killian, 2024) found that a measure of critical ...

Adding another layer to the story are the longstanding conspiracy theories about Beyoncé’s involvement with the Illuminati, a secretive group rumored to control major world events. For years ...

A candidate for state assembly in California, who USA TODAY identified as entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, also spread bizarre anti-semitic conspiracy theories, new research reveals. Meanwhile ...