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Mt. Eden High School in Hayward, Calif., on Feb. 23, 2023. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) A Hayward high school teacher accused of spreading antisemitic conspiracies and making the Heil Hitler salute during classes has been placed on administrative leave this week after students complained to the …
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In case you weren’t aware, America is in the midst of a dramatic, internet-driven resurgence of the fanatical belief that our beautiful, oblate spheroid is in reality a flat plane whose edges are rounded up by an ice barrier hundreds of feet high, topped by a dome. Those who hold this view believe …
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Melvin Quinney’s recent exoneration wasn’t widely publicized, but we should all take notice. Convicted in 1991 of sexually abusing his 9-year-old son as the leader of a satanic cult, the San Antonio man was declared innocent last week by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Quinney is the latest …
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Videos of birds congregating on streets and falling from the sky are going viral on social media. Users are speculating that it could be the sign of an impending environmental catastrophe. So, should we be worried? Why are people worried about birds’ behaviour? A video posted on TikTok and Twitter …
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15-minute cities reduce the burden on the environment, so why are they so controversial to Conservatives? There is no greater evidence that candidate selection processes are not working than the increasing regularity in which online conspiracy theories find themselves on the parliamentary record. …
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Conspiracy theories aren’t a new thing, and for as long as they’ve been around they’ve ranged from the benign to the absurd. From the six moon landings being faked to the Earth being flat, or our ruling class being lizards, we’ve all probably come across them in one form or another. Yet, in a …
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Edmonton and Toronto’s bid to become “15-minute cities” is facing pushback from fringe groups—putting them alongside Oxford, England, in a battle against climate denial, COVID-19 misinformation, and hard-right extremism. McMansion developer Christopher Saccoccia, aka Chris Sky, an anti-mask, …
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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email TikTok has threatened to remove users who spread misinformation about Nicola Bulley after the social media app was criticised for allowing conspiracy theories to spread on …
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Carla Francome campaigns for better cycling routes in Haringey, North London, where she moved a few years ago in search of a community—“an area where I could make friends that would go to the park with me on a Saturday,” she says. “And where there are cafés nearby, and everything is in walking …
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Reports of a pipe bomb being discovered near a train track have prompted conspiracy theories that the incident was somehow linked to recent train derailments, such as the one on the border between Ohio and Pennsylvania that led to a toxic spill. According to the Philadelphia Police Department, a …
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