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Why do mass shootings spawn conspiracy theories?

  • Written by Michael Rocque, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bates College
imageA woman places painted rocks at a memorial to those killed in the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shooting.AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

While conspiracy theories are not limited to any topic, there is one type of event that seems particularly likely to spark them: mass shootings, typically defined as attacks in which a shooter kills at least four other...

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