Who are the plotters behind the pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across five key target countries of Russia’s foreign communication

Figures & data

Figure 1. Two semantic dimensions of search terms affecting the amount of misinformative results retrieved.

Figure 2. Proportion of conspiracy theories retrieved by search term aggregated over six countries (N = 5280).

Figure 3. Result pages featuring conspiracy theories by source type (total N = 880 result pages per country).

Figure 4. Result pages featuring conspiracy theories by connection to Russian elites (total N = 880 result pages per country).

Figure 5. Result pages featuring conspiracy theories by geographical origin of suspected plotters (total N = 880 result pages per country).