The new rise of conservatism

On emotional labor

What happened to Giorgio Agamben?

The crypto market's inevitable crash will pull America's politics in an even scarier direction.

The more people believe in conspiracy theories, the worse they perform on critical thinking tests, a new study has confirmed.

As long as there have been vaccines, a vocal minority of public voices have made it their mission to rile up their communities against vaccination. In Montréal, in 1885, those voices were successful – and the results were deadly.

The long read: It is sold as a force that can help us cope with the ravages of capitalism, but with its inward focus, mindful meditation may be the enemy of activism

In small towns around the country, wind turbines are doing something to the locals.

An Internet mob wanted to rescue a 13-year-old girl. Instead, they terrified her, derailed real trafficking investigations and incited ‘save the children’ violence.

White supremacists embraced cryptocurrency early in its development, and in some cases produced million-dollar profits through the technology, reshaping the racist right in radical ways, a Hatewatch analysis found.

A report from the Southern Poverty Law Center tracked more than 600 cryptocurrency addresses used by white supremacists and far-right extremists.

You might think that a homicidal cult of aspirational psychics threatening to murder members of government would be full of interesting people. You would be wrong.

Steven Monacelli, who attended the 'Qonference' of the paranoid conspiracy theory in Dallas earlier this month, fears the quasi-religious movement might not die out without a fight

Extreme right-wing views and the wellness community are not an obvious pairing, but ‘conspirituality’ is increasingly pervasive. How did it all become so toxic? By Eva Wiseman

Two sources are communicating with House investigators and detailed allegations, including a promise of a “blanket pardon” from Trump.

Old and overtly anti-Semitic fantasies are gaining new adherents, and far-right activists have been working to convert anti-lockdown beliefs to anti-Semitism too.

He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right.

A 22-year-old Bitcoin millionaire wants Republicans to ditch their iPhones for a low-end handset that he hopes to turn into a political tool.

Much as the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine became an unproven remedy for Covid deniers, ivermectin has emerged in recent weeks as a new false cure.

Selling the story of disinformation

Leaked chat logs detail efforts to influencer elected leaders.

The majority of false claims about COVID-19 vaccines on social media trace back to just a handful of influential figures. So why don't the companies just shut them down?

An internal task force found that Facebook failed to take appropriate action against the Stop the Steal movement ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, and hoped the company could “do better next time.”

For years, Kurds in Turkey advocated to reform the government and society to be more inclusive of Kurdish culture. That’s changing

The French president is trampling the rights of minority communities, fuelling Islamophobia in a bid for votes

Part One Of The Misinformation Trifecta

The "Disinformation Dozen" are spreading anti-vaccination content throughout the internet.

I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.

In my day job, I monitor the spread of online disinformation and conspiracy theories. I never expected to find them at my yoga class

Turkish clerics on YouTube attract millions of viewers — but perhaps no one is watching them as closely as the Erdoğan government.

The Twitter and tear gas-filled world of Zeynep Tüfekçi