In a lecture today about disinformation & conspiracy theories - an Interesting theme emerged - that this narrative is used as a way of oppressing opinion. Would be interested in people’s thoughts - are accounts of CT in social science are balanced?
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The chart was created by @abbierichards.bsky.social and is an amazing interactive shortcut to discovering a range of conspiracy theories with links to each one
From my read of the literature on CTs I don’t think it is used to suppress opinion. But I do think that people who believe them and want to talk openly about them to convince others, may feel that way because they get pushback. People have the right to opinion, but not to go unchallenged
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https://doi.org/10.1525/si.2007.30.2.127