Avoiding the Rabbit Hole - How to Recognize and Understand Conspiratorial Thinking

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by News Literacy Project. The webinar recording can be accessed here. Conspiracy theories are rampant on social media, particularly related to hyperpartisan political beliefs as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. More importantly, though, the thought processes, cognitive dissonance and biases that lead to beliefs in conspiracy theories are even more common. Most of us engage in some form of conspiratorial thinking regularly, yet somehow don’t fall victim to belief...