Title
Conspiracy theories as an example of disinformation in the network
Authors
[ 1 ] Wydział Zarządzania i Dowodzenia, Akademia Sztuki Wojennej | [ P ] employee
Scientific discipline (Law 2.0)
Year of publication
2022
Published in
Article type
scientific article
Publication language
english
Keywords
EN
- Disinformation
- Fake news
- Conspiracy theories
PL
- Dezinformacja
- Fake news
- Teorie spiskowe
Abstract
EN Conspiracy theories have been with people since their inception. The tendency to con-spiracy thinking is related to many human cognitive mechanisms that greatly affect our per-ception of reality. Drastic and sudden events, especially those taking place on the international arena, are an impulse to plot intrigues in order to explain them and understand their causes. Anxiety and fear caused by uncertainty and a low level of trust, both in politicians and experts, are responsible for attempts to question the socio-political order and generally accep-ted explanations. The aim of the article was to present the phenomenon of spreading disinfor-mation in the form of conspiracy theories on the Internet. The research problem was the que-stion of which societies believe the most in the truth of selected conspiracy theories. The rese-arch methods used were: literature analysis. Diagnostic survey, the techniques were: text ana-lysis and a survey with a questionnaire.
Date of online publication
30.12.2022
Pages (from - to)
19 - 25
License type
CC BY-NC-ND (attribution - noncommercial - no derivatives)
Open Access Mode
open journal
Open Access Text Version
final published version
Release date
30.12.2022
Date of Open Access to the publication
at the time of publication
Ministry points / journal
5
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