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Coronovirus Conspiracies

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Title (Dublin Core)

Coronovirus Conspiracies

Description (Dublin Core)

There are many conspiracy theories circulating about COVID-19. Some of them are downright ridiculous, some are scary if you start to think about them seriously.
This article tries to make sense out of why these explanations are being propagated.
There are mainly two branches: One that doubts the virus's severity and the other main one that it was released as a biological weapon.
hoax, conspiracytheory, molepeople, virus, bioweapon, Wuhan, isolation, anxiety, powerlessness, urbanlegend, deepstate

Date (Dublin Core)

2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Joseph E. Uscinski
Adam M. Enders

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Lyn Ribisi

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

news article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Publisher (Dublin Core)

The Atlantic

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Pandemic Skeptics
English Social Media (including Memes)
English Conflict
English News coverage

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

hoax
QAnon
conspiracies
bioweapon
isolation
anxiety
Wuhan
social media

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/08/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/24/2020
08/02/2022
10/07/2024

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This item was submitted on July 8, 2020 by Lyn Ribisi using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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