Mariaconcetta Costantini, Pandemics, Power, and Conspiracy Theories, Critical Quarterly First published: 10 December 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12578 Open access Our culture is awash in conspiracy theories’, Joseph Uscinski recently observed to emphasise the crucial role the Internet plays in circulating a deluge of information and conjectures – including fake news – around the world.1 Sometimes created by …