We once thought of cyberspace as a borderless world. As the internet has become
increasingly platformized, with a small number of technology giants that dominate the global …

Populism has emerged as a central explanation employed by both media outlets and
scholars for the mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis. Nonetheless, the relationship between …

Recent scholarship has established that conspiracist narratives proliferated in mainstream
online discourse during the coronavirus pandemic. This proliferation has been provocatively …

This contribution starts from the contemporary surge in conspiracism to develop a theoretical
framework to understand how conspiracy theories make it from the margins to the …

“Cancel culture” has gained tremendous attention in contemporary political discourse. On
platforms like YouTube, reactionary ideological entrepreneurs often employ what Ng terms …

Delusions are said to fall on a continuum representing the extreme end of a spectrum of
psychotic-like traits. Consistent with this view is the notion that milder forms of delusional …

While news sharing by ordinary social media users has received growing attention, hyper-
partisan news sharing, which has been closely associated with misinformation circulation …

The gay frog has taken on a surprisingly prominent role in contemporary environmental
culture. Primarily associated with American shock jock Alex Jones and the so-called alt-right …

Citizens are likely to encounter various types of alternative media online, especially on
algorithmically personalized news channels (APNC) like social network sites or search …

This book will help you: Recognize what information to fact-check Identify the quality and
ranking of source materials Learn to fact-check a variety of media types: newspaper; …