Adam Koper

Nov 4, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Jovan Byford |Adam Koper

IntroductionWhat is a conspiracy theory? Scholars have typically defined conspiracy theories along epistemological lines; some take them to be necessarily false while others allow that they may be true or false, but the common assumption is that we are dealing with a type of explanation or belief in a conspiracy (see Douglas et al., 2019; Sunstein and Vermeule, 2009; Swami et al., 2014, 2016; Uscinski and Enders, 2023).

Mar 16, 2024 | bylines.cymru | Adam Koper

Mar 5, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Adam Koper

By Adam Koper, WISERD Civil Society Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cardiff University Conservative MPs seem increasingly willing to use the rhetoric of conspiracy. Recently, Liz Truss claimed that her brief tenure as prime minister had been ended by the deep state – shadowy forces within the British establishment and the media.

Mar 5, 2024 | theconversation.com | Adam Koper

Conservative MPs seem increasingly willing to use the rhetoric of conspiracy. Recently, Liz Truss claimed that her brief tenure as prime minister had been ended by the deep state – shadowy forces within the British establishment and the media. A few days later, Lee Anderson, the Conservative party’s former deputy chairman, asserted that London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, is being controlled by Islamists.

Dec 6, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Adam Koper

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