{
  "id": 16193863,
  "title": "People who believe conspiracy theories overestimate how many others agree, new research finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/people-who-believe-conspiracy-theories-overestimate-how-many-others",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-23T13:00:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PsyPost",
    "slug": "psypost",
    "url": "https://www.psypost.org/people-who-believe-conspiracy-theories-overestimate-how-many-others-agree-new-research-finds/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "People who believe conspiracy theories tend to overestimate how many others share their views. New research suggests that this illusion of consensus may help conspiracy theories spread, and that concrete statistics may puncture it.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}