This Mother-Daughter Duo Has Become the Center of Creepy TikTok Conspiracy Theories

July 12, 2022 big tech

Archived 4 years ago from Rolling Stone
This Mother-Daughter Duo Has Become the Center of Creepy TikTok Conspiracy Theories

At first glance, Bebop and Bebe, a TikTok page with more than two million followers, looks like a typical, albeit somewhat idiosyncratic, family account. The page features videos of Bebop, a girl with stick-straight hair who looks to be about eight or nine years old, mugging for the camera with her …

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July 11, 2022 covid19

Archived 4 years ago from Down To Earth Magazine
‘Stranger Things’ shows how conspiracy theories take hold and do harm

The show’s conspiracy leanings point out how easily people can be influenced during times of uncertainty A conspiracy theory is formed against Stranger Things character Eddie Munson. Photo: Stranger Things/Netflix Note: The following article contains spoilers about “Stranger Things.” Stranger …

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July 11, 2022 2020 election, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from FiveThirtyEight
Jan. 6’s Tangled Web Of Extremism

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES Mike Jensen keeps a database of bad guys. As a senior researcher at the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), part of Jensen’s job is to identify violent events that occur in the …

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July 8, 2022 2020 election, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from Associated Press
Choose your reality: Trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise

Daniel Charles Wilson believes the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were an inside job. The war in Ukraine is “totally scripted” and COVID-19 is “completely fake.” The Boston Marathon bombing? Mass shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas? “Crisis actors,” he says. …

Hemorrhagic Fever: An Outbreak of the Marburg Virus Has Begun

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July 8, 2022 covid19, monkeypox

Archived 4 years ago from Based Underground
Hemorrhagic Fever: An Outbreak of the Marburg Virus Has Begun

Editor’s Commentary: Because of the original “Plandemic” of Covid-19, I have been extremely skeptical of new diseases being fearmongered as “the next big one.” We are skittish as a society when it comes to diseases thanks to over two years of Pandemic Panic Theater. The last thing I want to do is …

‘Liberal World Order’ Is Decades-Old Term Misinterpreted by Social Media Posts

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July 8, 2022 big tech, ukraine

Archived 4 years ago from FactCheck.org
‘Liberal World Order’ Is Decades-Old Term Misinterpreted by Social Media Posts

Quick Take “Liberal world order” is a decades-old term referring to a system of global cooperation. A Biden administration adviser used the term to explain why gasoline prices are tied to the war in Ukraine. But social media posts use the adviser’s comments to misleadingly claim Biden is pushing …

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July 8, 2022 2020 election, alex jones, depopulation, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from NBC News
How the Georgia Guidestones became a magnet for conspiracy theorists

In early 2005, a conspiracy theorist writing under the pseudonym John Conner — the name of the resistance leader from “The Terminator” movies — decided he needed to warn the public about the evils of a roadside tourist attraction in northeastern Georgia. “The Guidestones should be smashed into a …

Conspiracy

July 8, 2022 big tech

Archived 4 years ago from Based Underground
Big Tech Isn’t Woke — It’s Totalitarian

In the mid-18th century, a secretive political group began spreading dangerous conspiracy theories throughout Britain’s colonies. British subjects had long enjoyed the freedom of expression, but these radicals abused novel communication platforms to churn out seditious literature not often grounded …

Civil War Is “on the Table”: Jeff Sharlet on the Martyrdom of Ashli Babbitt and What’s to Come

Conspiracy

July 8, 2022 nazi, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from Vanity Fair
Civil War Is “on the Table”: Jeff Sharlet on the Martyrdom of Ashli Babbitt and What’s to Come

This week Vanity Fair contributing editor Jeff Sharlet joins Inside the Hive to talk about his journey into the far-right world of January 6 insurrectionists, QAnon-ers, and Trump cultists—who they are, what they’re saying, what they believe, and what their still-growing movement might portend …

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July 7, 2022 5g

Archived 4 years ago from Maryland Today
UMD Report: Conspiracy Theories Fueled More Terror Attacks in 2020

In the early hours of Christmas Day 2020, an RV pulled up outside an AT&T network facility in historic Nashville. It broadcast, via speaker, recorded warnings that ranged from the literal to the confusing: gunshots, a female voice demanding evacuation, portions of Petula Clark’s song “Downtown.” …

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