"Conspiracy theories about globalist cabals, climate hoaxes and election fraud may seem ubiquitous on social media. But a report published on Monday by the Media Ecosystem Observatory has found that they come from a tiny minority of users.
According to the report, just 100 users were responsible for almost 70 per cent of online conspiracy posts from influential accounts they examined in Canada.
The researchers analyzed over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada, and found that 87 per cent of conspiratorial claims come from influencers. Users on Elon Musk’s X were the biggest culprits.
These influencers are having an outsized impact in the physical world as well as online.
Local governments across Canada are facing a wave of “larger scale conspiracy theories” overwhelming council meetings, according to Zoe Grams, executive director of Climate Caucus.
This has led some politicians to avoid mentioning climate change altogether for fear of provoking a backlash.
“It’s about the permission structure of how we treat each other and how we treat our democratic institutions, which I think conspiracy theories are really undermining,” said Grams."
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/news/conspiracy-content-report-canada
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