
COVID and conspiracy
Isolation-fuelled screen time has been a boon for online extremism, including the global conspiracy theory known as QAnon. What, if anything, should Canada do about it?
Researcher
Belle Riley Thompson is a journalist based in Ottawa. She graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism and Humanities from Carleton University in 2021 and then spent the summer researching QAnon and far-right extremism in Canada for Carleton's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Isolation-fuelled screen time has been a boon for online extremism, including the global conspiracy theory known as QAnon. What, if anything, should Canada do about it?