"It's an attention economy, and conspiracy theories get attention," Dancy said. He advocates for regulating social media algorithms that prioritize sensational content. Richards, who wrote a ...

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But this has led to conspiracy theories – some plausible, others totally bonkers – about this year's crop of contestants, whom include a landscape gardener from Yorkshire and posh interior ...

Conspiracy theories like these have run rampant over the years. Scientists have directed considerable scrutiny in their direction to understand their characteristics, why people find them ...

RedNote has gained rapid momentum as TikTok users look for new platforms in the wake of the possible ban. TikTok creators have been sharing their experiences with the Chinese social media app, ...

TikTok has become a cesspool of conspiracy theories and misinformation as wildfires ... and the view count on each video reviewed by Media Matters far exceeds the number of followers on the ...

He joined the University of Surrey in 2012, after working at the University of Portsmouth, where he was the founding Director of the Centre for Studies ... and on post-postmodernism. Bran's teaching ...

The theory gained momentum after a video emerged showing an unidentified object in the sky during the fires. Social media users have also compared the current devastation to last year’s Lahaina ...

The theory was sparked by a clip that appeared to show an object flying across the sky during the start of the fires. One person claiming a 'heat attack' had happened said on social media that ...

Is anything real in Severance? Honestly, though, I was more intrigued by two of the theories that the show's stars didn't quickly shoot down as being illogical or mistaken. The first, because it ...

Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate ... a wild blaze of vast conspiracy theories. “Cutting fact checkers from social ...