Conspiracy theories have been around for hundreds and hundreds of years but how are they evolving in today's fast-paced digital world? Join misinformation researcher and TikToker, ABBIE RICHARDS to talk about the history of conspiracy theories, what purposes they serve, who they harm, and what they look like in 2022.  Abbie Richards is a TikToker and TikTok misinformation researcher. She specializes in understanding how misinformation, conspiracy theories, and extremism spread on TikTok and creates educational content which explains these complex issues to a wider audience. She believes that understanding our new world of information is a right, not a privilege, and should therefore be as accessible as possible. So she puts it on TikTok. She's amassed a multi-platform following of over half a million people who are interested in learning about these issues.  Abbie is currently pursuing her MSc. where she studies the intersection of climate change and disinformation and she is a co-founder of EcoTok, an environmental Tiktok collective that specializes in social media-based climate communication.