From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age
QAnon and Conspiracy Theory Movements
Robinson has been blamed for stoking the unrest, but the tentacles of disinformation are global. Nafeez Ahmed uncovers a worrying nexus of tech platforms and far-right conspiracy – with links to Europe, Russia and the January 6 insurrection
As Rishi Sunak faces calls to strip her of the whip, Liz Truss claims without evidence that ceasefire protests are funded by authoritarian states, amid a litany of strange proposals
Labour MP writes to PM Sunak over Liz Truss appearing on Lotus Eaters, a show founded by Carl Benjamin, who stated he "wouldn’t even rape" her
A landmark study on the LTN policy finds that Government figures have latched onto cynical fear-mongering
Nick Davies shared a post featuring London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Adolf Hitler
Karam Bales takes a close look at Andrew Bridgen's recent resignation from the Reclaim Party and the high-profile attendees at his 'Parliamentary meeting' of anti-vax campaigners.
A conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists mounted an extraordinary campaign against one of the world’s most prestigious science journals – part of a series of joint investigations between Byline Times and Computer Weekly
Rishi Sunak's Party is placing itself in opposition not just to its own record, but to observable reality itself, reports Adam Bienkov
Karam Bales looks at the COVID-19 pseudoscience and the anti-vaxxer conspiracies that propelled the former Conservative MP out of his party