2020 Election Event Series: Conspiracy Theories & Social Media

About the event

Why do conspiracy theories play such a prominent part in contemporary politics? Professor Uscinski will discuss the role conspiracies theories play, who believes them, and why.

Joseph Uscinski, University of Miami, studies conspiracy theories. He is coauthor of American Conspiracy Theories (2014), and author of Conspiracy Theories: A Primer (2020).