Conspiracy

A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III’s England

May 12, 2022

By Rachel Weil (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the center of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or long-term effects, but Weil instead zeroes in on the … Continued

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Countering Disinformation in an Era of Pandemics and Conspiracies

August 6, 2021

Since the start of the Trump era, as coronavirus has become an "infodemic," and in the aftermath of the conspiracy-fueled riots at the US Capitol, the United States and the Western world have finally begun to wake up to the threat of disinformation. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what … Continued

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