Mich "When is spreading conspiracy theories wrong and why?"

Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Levon Babajanyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia)

Over the last decades, the ethical acceptability of the spread of conspiracy theorizing is getting more and more interest. The scholars consider normative arguments of silencing conspiracy theories or banning the dissemination of at least some false/uncertain ones. In my paper, I differentiate the types of conspiracy theories, arguing that the moral claim on silencing them should depend on the kind of conspiracy theories we face, real or false/uncertain ones, and whether they pursue political goals or not. I claim that the spread of conspiracy theories is ethically wrong in those cases when we deal with deceptive political conspiracy theories.