ABSTRACT
The World Wide Web is, presently, the centre stage for the dissemination of conspiracy theories. It is hardly surprising that a network with global reach has become such a fitting environment for the accelerated propagation, not only of news, fashions and fads, but also of rumours, falsehoods and conspiracy theories. As the technical infrastructure and the social relations of the Internet are governed by network principles, one could legitimately assume that, even in the absence of manipulation, facts and fakes encounter equally fertile ground to reproduce.
