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The protest at Parliament ended in violence and flames, but the issue of disinformation keeps burning. 1News spoke to Josie*, an immunocompromised academic, whose mother was at the protest. it began as another normal day and ended in violence. Josie’s mum shares claims about Covid-19 from …
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This story was originally published in our data newsletter, which you can sign up for here. Imagine you’re a journalist and you receive a collection of tens of millions of posts from more than 100,000 Facebook groups. You think …
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More than a quarter of people believe Covid-19 was likely to have been a biological weapon intentionally spread by the Chinese state, according to a new UK poll highlighting the spread of conspiracy theories. The findings are contained in a major report by the campaign group Hope Not Hate (HNH) …
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Top takeaways Conspiracy propagandists exist as a subcategory under the antigovernment extremist designation. This subcategory is made up of organizations that spew assertions that aim to delegitimize government institutions or government officials. In 2021, the Southern Poverty Law Center …
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Quick Take Rothschild & Co. has an office in Moscow and has been operating in Russia since the mid-1990s. Yet posts on social media falsely claim that Russia has barred the Rothschild banking family from doing business in the country. The claim is an adaptation of an old conspiracy theory about the …
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There’s no shortage of conspiracy theories floating around the internet. Was the moon landing faked? (No.) Are birds real? (Yes.) Is Tupac still alive? (No.) But there’s one untrue conspiracy that stands out: the flat-Earth movement. An author describes her journey down the flat-Earth rabbit hole.
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Late last year, Malik Faisal Akram travelled from the UK all the way to Dallas with the intention of taking Jewish people hostage in a synagogue. He bought himself a gun and, on 15 January, enacted his plan at the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. Fortunately the hostages escaped …
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Via Mercola “I feel like all I’ve done since my vaccine injury is try to get back to my normal self,” this young woman says, through tears. Her brain doesn’t work right since the shot, she says, and she never knows how each day is going to go. People tell her she looks fine, but she’s not fine, she …
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Analysis by Sean Phelan This article was issued by The Conversation and is being republished under Creative Commons licence. WELLINGTON (IDN) — One striking feature of the “freedom convoy” protests in Ottawa, Wellington and elsewhere has been the intense antagonism towards “mainstream media” (MSM). …
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Twitch has issued new moderation rules around misinformation on Thursday that take aim at channels spreading lies about vaccines and the ongoing war in Ukraine, as well as other fringe online movements like QAnon. The policy builds off one Twitch established last year that gave it authority to …
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