Conspiracy theories as an example of disinformation in the network
[ 1 ] Wydział Zarządzania i Dowodzenia, Akademia Sztuki Wojennej | [ P ] pracownik
2022
artykuł naukowy
angielski
- Disinformation
- Fake news
- Conspiracy theories
- Dezinformacja
- Fake news
- Teorie spiskowe
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.
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