Abstract

The terrorist attack in Christchurch of March 2019 marked a watershed moment in history, among others, since it was the first attack of this kind that was livestreamed on the Internet by the perpetrator himself. Since then, the footage has been reappearing online across the globe, and so have various conspiracy theories related to the attack, clearly showing the cross-boundary and cross-cultural nature of the phenomenon. The objective of this article is to examine a set of texts published on a Czech conspiracy site Aeronet and to look at how their author uses broader conspiracy contexts to explain an alleged ‘false flag’ operation in Christchurch. The overall aim of this article is to provide an in-depth analysis of texts published in the Czech language and contribute to the mosaic of research conducted in relation to this attack.

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