Northeastern University professor Sarah Riccardi-Swartz calls conspiracy theories "supportive scaffolding" for some people, ...

Social Comparison Theory explains how people judge their own success and self worth by comparing themselves to others, a ...

President Donald Trump spent his Sunday night bombarding his Truth Social followers with random conspiracy theory videos. In ...

President Donald Trump posted, and later deleted, a fake Fox News report featuring an AI clip of himself promoting "medbeds," ...

Plus, a mysterious group targets Gov. Wes Moore with racist AI videos, Trump seeks gratitude over TikTok, and more — all in this week’s Tuesday Tech Drop.

Spoiler warning: This column contains spoilers for the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma.” There is an epidemic. It’s taking over every household — every person alive. It’s consuming our every ...

In 2025, Charlie Kirk was murdered in a tragic assassination- this has become a target of crazed internet conspiracy theories! Other social media users compared the 1998 Snake Eyes movie starring Nico ...

Conservative social media is engulfed with a Taylor Swift conspiracy theory centered on the idea that the NFL is rigging games to ensure the pop superstar and boyfriend’s team both make and win the ...

Among those who believe that technological change has stagnated, there are two broad categories. One social/institutional theory of stagnation, often associated with Peter Thiel, claims that the world ...

Researchers at UCL Institute of Education, King's College London, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and UCLA report ...

Vilfredo Pareto’s Contributions to Modern Social Theory: A Centennial Appraisal, Christopher Adair-Toteff, ed. (Routledge, 208 pp., $170) Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Italian ...