About Conspiracy Check

Rebuild of the idea "aggregate conspiracy theories from Wikipedia to a web app with actionable items on solving them and prevention steps."

What's here

• Articles in Wikipedia's Conspiracy theories by subject categories, plus the main category. Some entries are real events that attracted theories (e.g. an assassination). The Wikipedia article explains what really happened.
• Summaries are the first sentences of each article. Popularity is Wikipedia page views over 60 days.
• Fact-check buttons open a search on independent fact-checkers. Nothing is sent anywhere else.

Sources for the prevention steps

• Mike Caulfield's SIFT method for lateral reading.
• Roozenbeek & van der Linden's research on "prebunking" / inoculation (University of Cambridge).
• Grimes (2016), "On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs," PLOS ONE, on how quickly large secrets leak.

Educational tool. Not affiliated with Wikipedia or any fact-checker.