Clare Birchall is Professor of Contemporary Culture at King’s College London. She is the author of Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (2006), Radical Secrecy: The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America (2021), and co-author of Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 (2022). She is the Principal Investigator on an EU-funded project called “Researching Europe, Digitalisation and Conspiracy Theories” (REDACT).