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Doug Mastriano, the Republican who ran for governor of Pennsylvania this year, was widely considered one of the most extreme candidates the GOP put forward. He believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen, met with QAnon groups, had ties to an anti-Semitic social network where the Tree of …
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A month after losing his gubernatorial election, Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano was tweeting pictures of what he implied were suspicious clouds. “Over Franklin County today,” Mastriano tweeted on Sunday, above four pictures of airplane trails across the Pennsylvania sky. He followed up …
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Scientists agree that carbon emissions are to blame for global warming, but social media posts claim humans are engineering severe storms and heatwaves. This is false; experts say existing weather modification technology cannot be used to deliberately manipulate the climate. “The climate around is …
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Paul R. Chetcuti, the self-styled leader of Malta’s anti-vax motley crew of demonstrators, has a new conspiracy theory to vent. He once said government measures to control the ‘false’ COVID pandemic were “unconstitutional”, “against human rights”, and even “state terrorism”. Now he wants the …
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A Facebook post claims to show evidence of “chemtrails” in the sky, and says that while contrails disappear quickly, chemtrails linger for many hours. Contrails are thin clouds which form when water vapour, a by-product of jet engines burning fuel, freezes as it is released into cold air …
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A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ Trump did not sign an order to deploy 20,000 troops on Jan. 6 …
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Source In certain religious practices such as Vodou (popularized as “Voodoo”) and Santeria, mercury is believed to have special powers. Practitioners carry it around in pouches, sprinkle it on the floor, pour it into a bath, or burn it in candles.
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CLAIM: A CNBC story on research into technology to combat climate change admitted that “chemtrails” are real. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The story reported on a federal plan to research technology such as “stratospheric aerosol injection,” the concept of placing materials in the atmosphere to reflect …
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Copyright AFP 2017-2022. All rights reserved. Social media and blog posts shared hundreds of times claim Australian authorities approved the release of a cholera vaccine “via chemtrails” over Queensland, the country’s third most populous state. The claim, however, is false. A US-based health expert …
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A post on Facebook shares a picture of two white lines in the sky with the comment “Contrail and chemtrail in he [sic] same shot”. As we’ve said many times before, “chemtrails” are a reference to a false conspiracy theory that claims these white lines are evidence of a plot to spread poison or …
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