Conspiracy thinkers like Lange Frans, Willem Engel and Alex Jones are part of an international movement with roots in the Cold War. A world of government-fearing oil barons, right-wing Christians and the American John Birch Society.
"What do we want?"Freedom!' 'When?' 'Not!"A delegation of Virus Truth." (formerly Virus Madness) increase 29 August during a demonstration in Berlin.
From the attack on the Twin Towers to a secret pedophile network that is in control of the world: the internet is full of unproven, even debunked theories and stories. Conspiracy theorists try to make money off this. A successful career seems only for a few.
With the outbreak of corona an information chemistry also broke out. Conspiracy thinkers of the old school merge online with hip influencers with a reach of millions, according to research together with the Utrecht Data School. It only takes one superspreader to keep an avalanche of conspiracies going on.
Alt-light and alt-right Dutch form a column in which the opposition is brewing and where extreme ideas are laundered. They have won anyway if Twitter and influencing public debate there.
What does the extreme right there today from, How do the different groups relate to each other and which ideologies hide behind? Where members meet each other, how they interact and what strategies they use to disseminate their ideas and ideals? What nuances and caveats here are placing?