The populist use of tropes such as conspiracy theories plays an increasingly important role
in their politics. Populism and conspiracy theories present a number of common traits …

Social crisis situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic provide a fertile ground for radical
actors and social movements to strengthen their radical mobilization—mainly using social …

Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the
emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a …

We describe a novel computational dictionary for the study of right-wing populist conspiracy
discourse (RPC) on the internet, specifically in the context of contemporary German politics …

This research hypothesizes that all conspiracy theories have dominating isotopies and
images-symbols regardless of ideology or context. As a result, I hypothesized that the …

Based on the assumption that social media encourages a populist style of politics in online
communities and the proposition that populism and conspiracy theories tend to co-occur …

Scholars have highlighted the bond between digital populism and conspiracy theories. They
have also shown that conspiracy theories from around the globe rely on similar narrative …

Previous research into the gendered social identity work involved in conspiracy theories
(CTs) has largely focused on expressions of masculinity. The present study investigates the …

populism and conspiracy theories are often mentioned in one breath. 1 Populists, it is
frequently claimed, are characterized as being “critical of elites” or “angry with the …

Conspiracy theories have become a prevalent feature of public discourse, with human
trafficking featuring as a key component of contemporary populist conspiracy claims. This …