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SHOW TRANSCRIPT From Saturday Night Live to HBO to South Park, major players in entertainment are starting to depict QAnon. But experts are cautious. As the absurdity of the conspiracy theory becomes the butt of jokes, does it ignore the group's roots in anti-Semitic and racist ideology? “QAnon says there is an underground ring of very bad people who gather to undermine Trump and steal elections and eat children. I hear that and I'm like whoa, where," said Kate McKinnon on a recent episode of Saturday Night Live. "On the one hand, the scene is very purposefully trying to make it laughable ...

NOTE: Transcripts may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Dan Merino: Hello and welcome to The Conversation Weekly. Gemma Ware: Each week we bring you expert analysis on the world’s biggest stories. Dan: And groundbreaking new research, explained by the academics behind it. Gemma: This week, we’re talking to two experts about Myanmar, where tens of thousands of people have been protesting after the military seized power on February 1. DB Subedi: They know the difference, how it feels to live under under a democratically elected government with pol...

The claim that Donald Trump’s words led to the riotous insurrection on 6 January is complicated. Rather than wage direct war against sitting U.S. representatives, Trump is accused of using language to motivate others to do so. Some have countered that the connection between President Trump’s words and the violence of Jan. 6 is too tenuous, too abstract, too indirect to be considered viable. However, decades of research on social influence, persuasion and psychology show that the messages that people encounter heavily influence their decisions to engage in certain behaviors. Senators, act...

From The ConversationKurt Braddock, American University School of Communication

Inside the race to develop a vaccine for our other pandemic: Hate A little-noticed group of government-funded researchers is developing a clever inoculation against the disinformation and violence threatening American democracy. By David Scharfenberg Globe Staff,Updated February 5, 2021, 3:01 a.m. Email to a Friend Cornelia Li for the Boston Globe The coronavirus vaccine rollout, however chaotic, has been cause for optimism; we can all hope that COVID-19 will soon lose its power. But it’s hard to be sanguine about the course of our other pandemic: hate. The storming of the Capitol on Jan...