Nick is a writer based in Leeds, England and a contributing editor at Logically. He holds a PhD and MA in Creative Writing from the University of Kent and is interested in politics, literature, and media. He can be reached on Twitter.
Despite having been declared a potential violent threat by the FBI more than a year ago, there’s still a common assumption that the QAnon conspiracy is something that lives exclusively on the outskirts, relegated to dark basements on the fringes...
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve witnessed political figures around the world have their leadership abilities put to the test, scrutinized, and run through the gauntlets of social media like an interminable bout of performance...
A rumor quickly making the rounds on Twitter and Facebook is claiming that an LA-area resident tested positive for COVID-19 at a CVS Minute Clinic site in La Habra despite never actually attending their appointment to take the test. The images...
Over the weekend, a tweet that was originally published on May 17th by the Obama Foundation re-entered the rounds after catching the interest of online conspiracy theorists. Followers of the QAnon conspiracy drew on the fact that the tweet...
Last week, a row erupted between Twitter and President Donald Trump after the social media platform added a warning label and a fact-check to one of the president’s tweets, when he linked mail-in ballots to a high-risk of electoral fraud.
In early May a video entitled Plandemic popped up online and rapidly started making the social media rounds—to a point where three weeks later, the video had already registered nearly 2.5 million interactions. The 26-minute production features a...
Against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, conspiracy theories seem to be undergoing something of a renaissance: 5G towers have been burned down, various cures have been touted, and eventually some people even started talking about the end...
A video currently doing the rounds on social media features Officer Greg Anderson of the Port of Seattle Police’s Marine Patrol Unit giving his take on the enforcement of “tyrannical” measures during the coronavirus lockdown. In the eight-minute...
After a recent string of 5G conspiracy theories led to a spate of mobile tower arsons in the United Kingdom, Twitter announced it would be tightening rules on its platform to tackle the spread of information it deemed false and dangerous,...