The Proliferation of Alternative Media:How Corona Conspiracy Theories in the Netherlands Fostered New Social Movements

Since the start of the pandemic, many different allegations and suspicions about what was really going on surfaced in the Netherlands. The usual suspects quickly shared their conspiratorial ideas on their own websites and social media platforms, but various new publics were lured by the concerns they put forward and the explanations they offered. The diverse collection of competing explanations about the Corona virus and how we are dealing with the pandemic share many commonalities with conspiracy theories in the rest of Western Europe and the United States. Drawing on the author's ongoing eth... Mehr ...