Lawfare Archive: The Truth About Conspiracy Theories
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
From April 8, 2021: If you’re listening to this podcast, the odds are that you’ve heard a lot about QAnon recently—and you might even have read some alarming reporting about how belief in the conspiracy theory is on the rise. But is it really?
This week on Arbiters of Truth, the Lawfare Podcast’s miniseries on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Joseph Uscinski, an associate professor of political science at the University of Miami who studies conspiracy theories. He explained why conspiracy theories in America aren’t actually at a new apex, what kinds of people are drawn to ideas like QAnon and what role—if any—social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter should have in limiting the spread of conspiracy theories.
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| 1:05.2 | I'm Will Appleton with an episode from the LawFair archive for November 5, 2022. |
| 1:20.3 | In the recent attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi, by a man who |
| 1:24.8 | believed in a variety of conspiracy theories regarding everything from the coronavirus pandemic |
| 1:29.7 | to the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, I thought it would be interesting to revisit |
| 1:34.2 | a previous conversation on the topic. |
| 1:36.7 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from 2021. |
| 1:40.9 | In the episode, Evelyn Duwick and Quintajer S.X sat down with Joseph Ischinski, an associate |
| 1:46.0 | professor of political science at the University of Miami, to discuss if social media platforms |
| 1:50.8 | should play a role in limiting the spread of conspiracy theories, why Ischinski believes |
| 1:54.9 | conspiracy theories aren't actually at an apex, what kinds of people are drawn to ideas |
| 1:59.7 | like QAnon and more. |
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