Europe’s Conspiracy Theory Echo Chamber

OLLOWING THE VIOLENT storming of the U.S. Capitol in January—two weeks before the inauguration of President Joe Biden—misinformation about what happened during the riots found a home overseas. Several European sites that had recently delved into promoting the U.S.-centric QAnon conspiracy theory and falsehoods about the 2020 U.S. election have now turned to the Capitol riots, claiming—as have right-wing commentators, misinformation publishers and some politicians in the U.S—that it was actually the left who