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Nicole Souter

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Research note: Understanding offline Covid-19 conspiracy theories: A content analysis of The Light “truthpaper”

Rod Dacombe, Nicole Souter and Lumi Westerlund

This article explores the ways in which offline conspiracist material concerned with Covid-19 is presented and structured through a content analysis of The Light, a newspaper produced and distributed by activists in the U.K. Our analysis shows that conspiracy theories related to Covid-19 are included alongside a range of other, non-conspiracist content and that readers encounter these ideas in a format which closely resembles a conventional newspaper.

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