Belief in conspiracy theories did not increase during the pandemic

The secret elites who control everything. The Federal Council, who intentionally misinformed: Conspiracy ideas have not increasingly stuck in the minds of the Swiss. However, experts fear that the hard core of conspiracy theorists will become radicalized.

Critics of the Covid measures at a peaceful move in Winterthur, September 18, 2021

Annick Ramp / NZZ

Suddenly they were everywhere. The people who raised the constitution in the air at demonstrations, those who strode through market lanes swinging bells, and those who held vigils against the Covid measures in white full-body suits. From the summer of 2020, thousands of them poured out of the shock of the first lockdown and seemed to make the attitude that the Federal Council suppressed the people, deliberately weakened them or misinformed them socially acceptable.

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