On November 6, Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly Robin Vos ordered the Assembly Committee on Elections to investigate Wisconsin’s general election on November 3rd. With no substantiation, the Rochester Republican […]
Conspiracy Theories Enter the Mainstream
On May 3, U.S. Secretary of State George Pompeo, speaking on ABC’s “This Week” program, repeated claims that the COVID-19 virus originated in a Chinese laboratory, despite intelligence officials’ repeated […]
How Do Conspiracy Theories Form and Proliferate?
In a time of fake news and misinformation, one scholar is untangling how conspiracy theories are formed and spread. Jordan Foley is a grad student at the School of Journalism […]