How Covid misinformation spiraled from vaccine doubts to wild conspiracy theories
Social psychologist Sander van der Linden explains how we can help those around us break free from conspiratorial thinking.
During the pandemic, someone in my circle suddenly started posting daily on Facebook about the dangers of Covid vaccines and masks. She warned that they were trying to control us. The government had orchestrated it all, she claimed—part of a larger plot by a shadowy cabal of pedophilic elites running the world. The World Economic Forum was somehow involved, and of course, Bill Gates was in on it too. Her claims grew wilder by the day.
