Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings

May 23, 2023 cia, nazi

Archived 3 years ago from The Intercept
Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings

TA SOUS, Cambodia — At the end of a dusty path snaking through rice paddies lives a woman who survived multiple U.S. airstrikes as a child. Round-faced and just over 5 feet tall in plastic sandals, Meas Lorn lost an older brother to a helicopter gunship attack and an uncle and cousins to artillery …

Reality is an endlessly useful political opponent

Conspiracy

May 23, 2023 flat earth

Archived 3 years ago from The Washington Post
Reality is an endlessly useful political opponent

Kari Lake lost the Arizona gubernatorial election by about 17,000 of the votes cast by Nov. 8, 2022. She lost the election in the mind of the public when it was called by the Associated Press on Nov. 14. She lost officially when the election was certified on Dec. 5. She lost the election again on …

Conspiracy

May 23, 2023 2020 election, big tech, covid19, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 3 years ago from Nature
On modeling the correlates of conspiracy thinking – Scientific Reports

AbstractWhile a robust literature on the psychology of conspiracy theories has identified dozens of characteristics correlated with conspiracy theory beliefs, much less attention has been paid to understanding the generalized predisposition towards interpreting events and circumstances as the …

Nearly 1 in 3 Veterans Agree with Racist Great Replacement Theory, Rand Study Finds

Conspiracy

May 23, 2023 qanon

Archived 3 years ago from Military.com
Nearly 1 in 3 Veterans Agree with Racist Great Replacement Theory, Rand Study Finds

A new study by Rand Corp. has found a much smaller number of veterans, compared to the general population, say they believe in white supremacy, the QAnon conspiracy theory and left-wing extremism. But nearly 18% of veterans did agree with the idea that Americans may have to resort to violence …

Conspiracy

May 23, 2023 big tech

Archived 3 years ago from National Observer
Wildfire conspiracy theories spread faster than flames

For the past three weeks, thousands of Albertans have been forced to evacuate their homes while firefighters and even Canadian troops battle massive wildfires. But in some corners of the province, there are whispers that the soldiers’ presence has nothing to do with the fires. In a video posted to …

Fake picture of explosion at Pentagon spooks Twitter

Conspiracy

May 22, 2023 big tech, qanon

Archived 3 years ago from NBC News
Fake picture of explosion at Pentagon spooks Twitter

A fake image purporting to show an explosion near the Pentagon briefly went viral on Twitter on Monday, leaving fact-checkers to scramble to counter the false claim as it was pushed by a variety of verified accounts. The image, which depicts a large plume of smoke next to a rectangular building …

It’s getting harder to trust what you read online—a Google exec explains why, and what you can do about it

Conspiracy

May 22, 2023 big tech, ukraine

Archived 3 years ago from CNBC
It’s getting harder to trust what you read online—a Google exec explains why, and what you can do about it

Gen Zers might be the most digitally savvy group on the planet, but that doesn’t make them immune from believing — and spreading — false information online. That’s a big problem for everyone, Google executive Beth Goldberg tells CNBC Make It. “I do think Gen Z’s susceptibility to misinformation is …

Conspiracy

May 22, 2023 nazi

Archived 3 years ago from San Francisco Chronicle
Teacher’s antisemitic conspiracy theories were ‘swept under the rug,’ critics of East Bay high school say

A Hayward high school remains mired in controversy months after students and educators raised concerns that a teacher was allegedly peddling antisemitic conspiracy theories and performing the Nazi salute in classes. A handful of students and teachers at Mount Eden High School told The Chronicle …

Conspiracy

May 22, 2023

Archived 3 years ago from The Guardian US
The Tories have form with far right conspiracy theories. This time it’s ‘cultural Marxism’ | Samuel Earle

This week, London played host to the National Conservatism conference, an orgy of rightwing anxieties about threats to the west and the future of Conservatism. The lineup saw an eclectic coalition of rightwing firebrands raising the alarm about the left’s purported plans for world domination via a …

Conspiracy

May 21, 2023 qanon

Archived 3 years ago from Salon
How conspiracy theories like QAnon got so popular

The last three years have revealed a strange, fundamental truth about American society: we do not exist in a world where we all perceive the same reality. Rather, we exist in a universe of competing beliefs about the nature of the world. And for myriad reasons — including the fundamental way that …

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