The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Speakers: Venue: Event Description: During the Pandemic, many of us have spent a lot of time alone, and a lot of time online. These circumstances seem to have favored the emergence of a range of potent conspiracy theories. Some of these theories pertain to COVID-19 or the vaccination program against it, while others implicate pizza restaurants, popular elections, and cellular broadband technology. These conspiracy theories may have had their origins in shady outposts of the internet, but many of them have since “mainstreamed”, and have been implicated in large-scale political movements, including the storming of the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.