King’s College London
This week Srikar speaks to Dr Daniel Allington, senior lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence, and author of a fascinating study conducted by King’s College London looking at how belief in COVID-19 conspiracies is shaped by social media usage. Together they explore what actually makes a conspiracy, how COVID became such fertile ground for mistruths, what role social media is playing in exposing people to these fringe ideas, and where we go from here.
Find more details of the study here
More of Dr Allington’s work on conspiracies can also be found here
Many of the things conspiracy believers believe in seem hard to believe
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