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Ball, P. & Maxmen, A. The epic battle against coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories. Nature 581, 371–374. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01452-z (2020). ADS CAS Article PubMed Google Scholar Gross, M. Recovering a sense of reality. Curr. Biol. 31, R1–R3 (2021). CAS Article …
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Introduction On the afternoon of March 9th, 2022, the current White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, used the United States government official Twitter account, @PressSec, to make the following claims (among several others): “We took note of Russia’s false claims about alleged U.S. biological …
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Placeholder while article actions load Super Happy Fun America, the Woodland Wild Dogs and America First Bruins are not household names in the way the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and QAnon are. But they, too, are groups whose members or associates have been charged with participating in the Jan. 6 …
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Quick Take At least 2,000 cattle have died following a heat wave in southwestern Kansas. Although the cattle apparently died of heatstroke, social media posts have made baseless claims suggesting that the deaths might be part of a larger conspiracy theory about the food supply. Full Story A heat …
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Hodgepodge Is Bill Gates the “first man to bring computers into this world,” and is he worth “trillions and trillions”? No, that’s not true: A social media video post purporting to be sharing “the truth about Bill Gates” makes those claim but offers no proof for them or any of the many other claims …
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Top takeaways The Intelligence Project identified 266 antigovernment general groups, which believe the federal government is inherently tyrannical and traffic in conspiracy theories. These include groups which self-identify as militias, but do not have any proven paramilitary activity. In 2021, the …
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Dr. Jim Meehan believes the monkeypox outbreak was engineered because people are no longer afraid of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). Meehan, an expert ophthalmologist and surgeon, spoke out against worrying about the monkeypox outbreak during an appearance on InfoWars. “I think it’s a …
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Placeholder while article actions load President Donald Trump, his former aides testified, faced a fateful choice on election night 2020: Heed the best advice of his top political and legal advisers? Or go with the erratic drunk guy? Trump chose Option No. 2. “President Trump rejected the advice of …
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A Republican city commissioner in Philadelphia who investigated Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the city testified Monday he found no evidence of the former president’s insistence that dead people voted there in the 2020 election. Al Schmidt, part of the three-member board that oversees elections …
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CONHOLT, England — Standing hip-high in a large wheat field in southern England, one can make out an odd series of depressions in the swaying green crop, where some of the wheat has been pushed down lower than the rest. It is only by looking at the field from high above that the real picture is …
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