What if conspiracy theories were taken to their logical endpoint and put into practice as a form of governance? @mertcanbayar.bsky.social and I explore this question in our new article on the conspiracist theory of power in @cogitatiopag.bsky.social. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

My article on the stakes around mis/disinformation controversies is finally out at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social. It is the product of my work at @eui-schuman.bsky.social with support from @stephofmann.bsky.social and inspiration from @cip.uw.edu.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... My new article with @skarceski.bsky.social and Yuan Hsiao. Can a politician claim disinformation to escape media accountability? We sought to find out.

I have a new article out in Information, Communication, and Society, co-authored with Yuan Hsiao. People are exposed to various claims about disinformation online, and maybe they believe those claims. 1/3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nominees are all hacks/loyalists or ideologues. Which is worse? I think ideologues, because they will damage an agency beyond what they're ordered to do. McMahon (DOE) is a loyalist. Bondi, like Gaetz--mostly loyalists. Gabbard (DNI) is both--she can (and would probably like to) do real harm.

Most analyses are about the harm to US democracy. All true. But these appointments are also intended to damage the state --the postwar institutions that help protect public health and provide a decent standard of living, and have survived several hostile Republican administrations.