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The first steps in a Judaeo-Bolshevik conspiracy
Nordisk JudaistikAt the turn of the twentieth century, Jews were mostly blamed for small-scale and local conspiracies, but during and after the First World War global antisemitic theories started to emerge.
Paavo Ahonen
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Law and conspiracy theory: sovereign citizens, freemen on the land, and pseudolaw
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 34-56, March 2025.Abstract This article examines the ‘sovereign citizen’ and ‘freemen on the land’ movements and the operation of ‘pseudolaw’. Against a predominant judicial, governmental, and academic approach that portrays sovereign citizen beliefs as ‘irrational’ and ‘nonsensical’, I argue that such beliefs should be understood in terms of conflicts within the socio ...
TARIK KOCHI
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Bridging the Cognitive/Collective and Supply/Demand Divides in Conspiracy Theory Research
Social Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 2, March 2025.ABSTRACT Objectives Despite the fast growth of the social scientific literature on conspiracy theories, fragmentation rather than dialogue is the norm across disciplines. One such division is between the individual/cognitive versus sociopolitical dimensions of conspiracy beliefs, which are often studied in isolation.
Efe Peker, Frédérick Guillaume Dufour
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Does it matter how we measure conspiracy beliefs? A test of three measurement approaches
Social Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 1, January 2025.Abstract Objectives In this article, we examine the extent to which respondents’ support for conspiratorial claims depends on question format. Measuring conspiracy theory beliefs in the general population is challenging, and properly capturing these beliefs is necessary if we are to understand them.
Feodor Snagovsky, Daniel Stockemer
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The Oldest Post-Truth? The Rise of Antisemitism in the United States and Beyond [PDF]
, 2021 Antisemitism, the negative stereotyping and hatred of Jews, has overshadowed Western history for 2000 years. In the 20th century, antisemitism led to the Shoah, the systematic state-sponsored murder of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies.
Steinacher, Gerald
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Discourse Report 2:Decoding Antisemitism: An AI-driven Study on Hate Speech and Imagery Online [PDF]
, 2021 For the second discourse report on the pilot project “Decoding Antisemitism,” the research team studied in detail more than 15,000 comments, mainly coming from Facebook profiles of leading mainstream media outlets in Great Britain, France, and Germany ...
Allington, Daniel +9 more
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Prejudice is epistemically unwarranted belief
Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 38, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract In two preregistered online studies with U.S. adults, we provide evidence of a common psychological profile characterizing belief in prejudicial and non‐prejudicial epistemically unwarranted claims. We solicited self‐report ratings of beliefs in prejudicial and non‐prejudicial pseudoscientific, conspiratorial, and paranormal claims, as well as
Emilio Jon Christopher Lobato +1 more
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Hannah Arendt Meets QAnon: Conspiracy, Ideology, and the Collapse of Common Sense [PDF]
, 2021 A June 2020 survey found one in four Americans agreeing that “powerful people intentionally planned the coronavirus outbreak.” In fall 2020, seven percent said they believe the elaborate and grotesque mythology of QAnon; another eleven percent were ...
Luban, David
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Veiled conspiracism: Particularities and convergence in the styles and functions of conspiracy-related communication across digital platforms [PDF]
Digital communication venues are essential infrastructures for anti-democratic actors to spread harmful content such as conspiracy theories. Capitalizing on platform affordances, they leverage conspiracy theories to mainstream their political views in ...
Buehling, Kilian +2 more
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The Italian executioners: revisiting the role of Italians in the Holocaust [PDF]
, 2016 L'aritcolo esamina il ruolo degli italiani nella Shoah (1943-45). Forze di polizia, burocrazia locale e statale, volontari del partito fascista parteciparono a diverso titolo all'arresto, deportazione e depredazione degli ebrei italiani.
Levis Sullam, Simon
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