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Conspiracy theories are everywhere online. Few are shockingly true, most are not, but one shared trait among all conspiracy theories is that a simple truth could be mixed up in a murky sludge of fact and fiction. This is especially
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I began writing Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth in 2018, nearly six years after the 2012 shooting deaths of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. That year, the
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SciCheck Digest Dr. Anthony Fauci has continued making public appearances, although news coverage has largely shifted away from the pandemic since Russia invaded Ukraine in February and COVID-19 cases have dramatically fallen. Some politicians and pundits, however, have suggested that
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Among the top requesters of information appears to be Canadian UFO hunter Grant Cameron who asked about Roswell, N.M., flying saucers and Obama’s relationship with Robert Lazar, the conspiracy …
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On Feb. 24, a poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 16 percent of Americans believe the central tenets of the QAnon conspiracy. That figure is larger than it was shortly after the Jan. 6 attack on
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QAnon supporters at a political rally in Bucharest. Image courtesy of Mircea Moira / Shutterstock Jitarth Jadeja first fell down the rabbit hole when Donald Trump won the presidential election on 9 November 2016. As an Australian who had previously
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A suburban high school staffer. A former Chicago Police sergeant. A South Side college professor. None of them believe the 2020 election results were legitimate. Some of them seem to promote the spread of much darker conspiracy theories even more
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Sandy Hook Hoax was a closed Facebook group; you needed an invitation to join. Its page was topped with the image of a child ghoul, her eyes ringed in black, a mud-encrusted finger pressed to her lips. Its nightly discussions
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It can sometimes feel as though digital natives are impervious to misinformation. At least that’s what some think. But TikToker Jules Terpak is keeping her Gen Z peers humble. “We grew up making fun of our parents’ and grandparents’ falling
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