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Which conspiracy theories have been proved true? Anne Gibson, LeicesterPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published next Sunday.
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How election lies fuel Taylor Swift conspiracy theories Link Copied! Trump’s election lies have helped create an alternate world void of facts. CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan investigates. 04:01 – Source: CNN
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In 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-fiction story titled “Scanners Live in Vain” in a pulp magazine. It was about a man named Martel who works for the “deep state” in the far future as a mysterious “scanner,” or starship pilot, and whose …
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A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — There’s a tendency in this heated political climate to simply reject people who are saying false things and to write off conspiracy theorists writ large. But as the US …
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Conspiracy theories are going mainstream, but not entirely in a good way and not without pushback from Conservative Media. Today we discuss the problems of “just asking questions,” excessive skepticism, normies who hate our conspiracy theories and more. ———- Support the show and get bonus …
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“I’m formally confident that acute respiratory illnesses that we call colds and flu are not caused by submicroscopic infectious particles called viruses & are not contagious. I have learned enough to say I think viroLIEgy is wholly fraudulent…I’m also securely of the opinion that global pandemics …
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The internet has no shortage of bots snaking through its pixelated corridors. Take the automated LLMs flooding the comments section of X with out-of-context responses and porn ads or the suspiciously sexy avatar with zero followers liking your Instagram stories. The AI-generated muzak garnering …
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In a community centre in Stockport a group of children stand holding hands in a circle with their eyes tightly shut. On the floor in front of them is a collection of crystal pyramids. “It might get a bit warm,” says their teacher, a self-styled shaman called Phil, who tells his students that the …
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With the Israel-Hamas war approaching its seventh-month mark, X, a social media network with over half a billion active users worldwide, remains a major platform for disinformation and misinformation. On April 21, X users positioning themselves as news outlets or open-source intelligence experts …
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Much has been made of the draft of the International Health Regulations released last week. Although some changes have been made and some wording moved around, the World Health Organisation’s (“WHO’s”) plans are the same as they were before. This week, from 22 and 26 April, the 8th meeting of …
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