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9/11
First a Siri joke, now a 9/11 conspiracy? Facebook Trending is having a really bad week.
Facebook’s Trending Topics feature is in trouble. Again. The section, whose human editors were recently replaced by algorithms, has promoted a “truther” article from a British tabloid claiming the Twin Towers in New York collapsed on Sept. 11 due to a “controlled demolition.” SEE ALSO: Why we …
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9/11 Anniversary Sparks New Wave of Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories …
Brooklyn Commons is a neighborhood gathering space. It says its purpose is “movement building,” but the organization dedicated to fostering connection found itself attacked by its own allies days before the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Groups affiliated with the Commons, including Jewish …
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The ‘missing 28 pages’ from the Congressional report on 9/11 won’t stop conspiracy theories. Here’s why.
Our research helps explain why withholding information from government documents like the “28 pages” is so often counterproductive. In a new article (written with co-authors at Dartmouth College) in the Journal of Experimental Political Science, we show how the use of redactions can undermine the …
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The definitive analysis of a truth-seeker’s $1.5 million plan to ‘re-create’ 9/11
Salo, a 51-year-old American expat living in Bangkok, has launched the “9/11 Redux” project to raise $1.5 million to purchase a fully loaded airplane similar to a Boeing 757 or Boeing 767 and a building as comparable as possible to the World Trade Center — and then fly the aircraft into the …
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The definitive analysis of a truth-seeker’s $1.5 million plan to ‘re-create’ 9/11
In Hoffmann’s simulation, he said, his team tried to find out how much of the buildings’ core supports were cut. Using the animation, he said, they came to the same accepted conclusion: that between the planes’ cutting a large part of the structures’ core supports and the fires’ weakening the steel …
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Louis Farrakhan pushes 9/11 conspiracy in TSU speech
Minister Louis Farrakhan told an audience at Tennessee State University that the federal government purposely deceived the American public on the tragic events of 9/11 and sought to use the attacks to start a war with the Middle East. The 82-year-old Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, …
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Trump’s foes say he’s a 9/11 truther. Truthers would disagree.
Gift Article Donald Trump’s extended riff on 9/11 last weekend — “the World Trade Center came down under the reign of George W. Bush,” and so on — has not merely been rejected by the mainstream right. It has been described as disqualifying, as a conspiracy theory, as something “a liberal Democrat” …
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What this blacksmith’s viral video going after 9/11 ‘truthers’ says about Donald Trump
(If your mind is too sober to follow the “truther” logic here, allow me to explain: Truthers believe that fuel from the planes that struck the Twin Towers couldn’t burn hot enough to liquefy the buildings’ steel skeleton; ergo, the towers’ collapse was a government scheme.) Advertisement Story …
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Angry blacksmith disproves 9/11 ‘jet fuel can’t melt steel beams’ conspiracy theory
Tenacious 9/11 truthers have many conspiracies about why the collapse of the World Trade Center towers was not as it seemed. Some claim it was an inside job by the U.S. government, and some believe it’s all related to the movie Pitch Perfect. Featured VideoThere is one conspiracy, however, that …
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