Department of Media & Culture, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam
My current research concerns radical political subcultures online, which I explore through "digital methods" in affiliation with researchers at the Open Intelligence Lab and the Digital Methods Initiative.
I have given recent talks on new-right "conspiracism" and "the deep vernacular web" at De Balie (Amsterdam, NL), the IMPAKT festival (Utrecht, NL) and the Centre for Investigative Journalism (London, UK).
Four experts investigate how the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory began
Jun 14, 2020 12:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views
In times of crisis conspiracy theories can spread as fast as a virus. As the coronavirus pandemic tightened its grip on a world which struggled to comprehend the enormity of the situation it was facing, darker forces...
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