Clare Birchall is a professor of Contemporary Culture at King’s College London. Nebojša Blanuša is a professor of Social and Political Psychology at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.Michael Butter is a professor of American Studies at the University of Tübingen and a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.Elżbieta Drążkiewicz is an associate professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University. She is also an affiliated researcher with the Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.Peter Knight is a professor of American Studies at the University of Manchester.Mari-Liis Madisson is an associate professor in Semiotics at the University of Tartu.

• Introduction: Researching Europe, Digitalisation and Conspiracy Theories Part I: Comparative Analyses of Digital Conspiracism in Europe 1. Contextualising European Conspiracism 2. Mapping Conspiracy Theories in the European Online Information Environment 3. Great Replacement Conspiracy Theories Across Europe Part II: Regional Case Studies 4. Conspiracy Theories about the War in Ukraine in the ‘Balkan Triangle’: Behindological Reasoning, Mnemonic Geopolitics and Escalation Imaginaries on Facebook 5. From Shorthand Cues to Elaborate Dystopian Reasoning: The Affordances of Orwell’s 1984 in Strategic Online Conspiracy Narratives 6. ‘The Goal Is the Unconditional Abolition of Cash’: German-language Conspiracy Theories about the Ban on Cash and Expropriation 7. None Dare Call It Conspiracy Theory: The Anti-Gender Narratives of The Illiberal Right in Central Europe 8. Conspiracy Culture Wars: 15-Minute City Conspiracy Theories in the UK Part III: The Counter-Disinformation Sector in Europe 9. Combatting Conspiracy Theories and Debunking Disinformation in the European Information Environment Conclusion: Conspiracism’s Contexts