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  2020-04-30

  "The Coronavirus Conspiracy Boom" - The Atlantic Monthly

  The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated socioeconomic and political shock has created fertile grounds for the dissemination of conspiracy theories. In an article for the Atlantic Monthly, political scientists Joseph E. Uscinski and Adam M. Enders provide an overview of why conspiracy theories have developed and spread, and how they are being exacerbated by political polarization, groupthink, group identity, and misinformation. The authors also examine the different types of COVID-19 conspiracy theories, showing that certain kinds of conspiracy theories are associated with political identities and exacerbated by conspiratorial statements made by politicians.
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  2020

  Coronovirus Conspiracies

  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.