58 min
Episode 11 - Conspiracy theories and democracy The City Politics Podcast
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On 28 October 2017, a user known as “Q Clearance Patriot” posted on the /pol/ board of 4Chan claiming that then President Trump was preparing for the mass arrest of a cabal of cannibalistic paedophiles that secretly run the American government. The Q-Anon conspiracy theory then metastasised across social media and the world, culminating in the January Insurrection which was replete with QAnon iconography.
The spread of conspiracy theories into mainstream politics has raised concerns about the resilience of liberal democracy in the post-truth era.
Today we will give you the City View on conspiracy theories and democracy.
Our guests are Annemarie Walter, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nottingham, Hugo Drochon, Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Nottingham, and Alfred Moore, Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of York.
On 28 October 2017, a user known as “Q Clearance Patriot” posted on the /pol/ board of 4Chan claiming that then President Trump was preparing for the mass arrest of a cabal of cannibalistic paedophiles that secretly run the American government. The Q-Anon conspiracy theory then metastasised across social media and the world, culminating in the January Insurrection which was replete with QAnon iconography.
The spread of conspiracy theories into mainstream politics has raised concerns about the resilience of liberal democracy in the post-truth era.
Today we will give you the City View on conspiracy theories and democracy.
Our guests are Annemarie Walter, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nottingham, Hugo Drochon, Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Nottingham, and Alfred Moore, Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of York.
58 min