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Last week, I was invited to speak to a Houston area high school along with five other local horror authors. During the question and answer session, a student asked us what our favorite conspiracy theories were. Here is an extended answer to what I told them. I don’t have a favorite conspiracy …
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Professor Vivien Schmidt (left) and Nick Woolf (right) explore the rise and spread of Qanon and other online political conspiracy theories. (Source: Center for the Study of Europe) On October 19, 2022, the Center for the Study of Europe (CSE), an affiliated center of Boston University’s Frederick …
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Fake children, lost Black tribes of Israel, and vast conspiracies: This is not the Kanye West we used to know. Ye, né Kanye, habitually draws headlines for more than just his music, whether it’s for his outspoken comments on race and politics, his beefs with other artists, or his contentious …
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As unhinged conspiracy theorists go, Jim Marchant is unreserved when pushing ridiculous ideas. The Nevada Republican, naturally, believes Donald Trump won the Silver State, actual election results notwithstanding. But there’s no reason to stop there: Marchant, who’s been accused of having QAnon …
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Ballot boxes are lined up as employees test voting equipment at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department, Wednesday, in Miami, in advance of the 2022 midterm elections on Nov. 8. Republican activists who believe the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump have crafted a plan …
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Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Johannes M. Bauer, the Quello Chair for Media and Information Policy in Michigan State University’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences explains how to recognize and combat the spread of misinformation and disinformation in today’s complex media …
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New York CNN Business — The right-wing channel Newsmax has banned Lara Logan from its air after she went on a QAnon-style rant during an appearance on the network this week. In a bizarre interview, Logan told host Eric Bolling that “the open border is Satan’s way of taking control of the world,” …
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Conspiracy theories about monkeypox shared online and on social media follow the same trends as COVID-19 misinformation, according to Alberta researchers. A new University of Alberta (U of A) study found the spread of monkeypox misinformation is mirroring the spread of COVID-19 misinformation in a …
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Early in the COVID-19 pandemic—well before much of the public understood the extent of the crisis—large numbers of mainstream Facebook users had already become entangled with online communities opposed to best-science guidance, undercutting confidence in expert guidance on everything from masks to …
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Conspiracy theories about monkeypox are spreading as fast as the virus itself, mirroring the proliferation of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study from the University of Alberta. Social media is the biggest driver of the monkeypox “infodemic,” with TikTok at the top …
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