The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is ending, but issues ‘not going away’

February 18, 2022 great reset, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Al Jazeera
The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is ending, but issues ‘not going away’

For three weeks, Canadian truckers and their supporters have occupied downtown Ottawa. Organised by far-right activists, the so-called “Freedom Convoy” has dominated international news headlines as participants called for an end to all coronavirus restrictions in Canada and for Prime Minister …

Viral video shows blackbirds falling from sky in Mexico

Conspiracy

February 15, 2022 5g

Archived 5 years ago from The Washington Post
Viral video shows blackbirds falling from sky in Mexico

The eerie and bizarre scene, captured by a surveillance camera on Feb. 7, has since gone viral. The mysterious event has sparked an online debate — with several wondering what could have possibly caused the birds to so abruptly plummet to their deaths. Security footage captured scores of …

Conspiracy

February 15, 2022 illuminati, qanon, william cooper

Archived 5 years ago from Rolling Stone
From Gucci Mane Clones to Mind Control: How Conspiracy Theories Took Over the Rap Internet

In the fall of 2020, while quarantined and bored, Gavin Ruta and Carlos Juico started a podcast. Friends since St. Mary Catholic Secondary School in Pickering, outside of Toronto, the two figured they’d mostly talk about streetwear. Then, while recording the first episode, Juico offhandedly …

Conspiracy

February 15, 2022 antivax, covid19, deep state, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from The Colorado Sun
Conspiracy theorists fuel bump in extremist killings, new report finds

By Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press Newer strains of far-right movements fueled by conspiracy theories, misogyny and anti-vaccine proponents contributed to a modest rise in killings by domestic extremists in the United States last year, according to a report released Tuesday by a Jewish …

Conspiracy

February 14, 2022

Archived 5 years ago from POLITICO Europe
France’s Pécresse comes under fire for reference to far-right conspiracy theory

PARIS — France’s conservative presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse was slammed on Monday for using far-right rhetoric and referring to the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory at her first big campaign rally. Speaking to thousands of supporters in Paris on Sunday, Pécresse asked “in ten years …

Conspiracy

February 14, 2022 antivax, covid19, fauci, ukraine

Archived 5 years ago from The Burning Platform
Serious Unaddressed Business

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts The attention given to the growing public resistance to “vaccine” mandates and to the “Russian invasion of Ukraine,” allegedly to happen at any moment, has left equally serious problems without attention. Two unattended very serious problems are the continuing …

Beliefs About the Nature of Knowledge Shape Responses to the Pandemic: Epistemic Beliefs, the Dark Factor of Personality, and COVID‐19‐related Conspiracy Ideation and Behavior

Conspiracy

February 13, 2022

Archived 5 years ago from Wiley
Beliefs About the Nature of Knowledge Shape Responses to the Pandemic: Epistemic Beliefs, the Dark Factor of Personality, and COVID‐19‐related Conspiracy Ideation and Behavior

Objective Global challenges such as climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic have drawn public attention to conspiracy theories and citizens’ non-compliance to science-based behavioral guidelines. We focus on individuals’ worldviews about how one can and should construct reality (epistemic beliefs) …

Conspiracy

February 12, 2022

Archived 5 years ago from The Guardian
Ministers accused of fuelling conspiracy theorists’ bogus ‘common law’ ideas

Government attacks on judges and lawyers are fuelling distrust of the courts and encouraging bogus notions of ancient “common law” being pushed by conspiracy theorists, according to the Law Society. The use of bogus interpretations of common law to portray courts, fines and regulations, …

Conspiracy

February 11, 2022

Archived 5 years ago from The Guardian
Woman who posted antisemitic conspiracies about Grenfell fire jailed

A woman who spread false antisemitic conspiracy theories on Facebook about the Grenfell Tower tragedy has been jailed for 11 months. Tahra Ahmed, 51, said the 72 victims were “burnt alive in a Jewish sacrifice” in a video posted to social media just four days after the tragedy on 14 June 2017. She …

Conspiracy

February 9, 2022 big tech, epstein, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from GBH News
Abbie Richards fights TikTok disinformation with a cup of tea, a conspiracy chart and a punchline

Comedian and disinformation expert might not seem like two jobs that intersect, but for Boston local Abbie Richards, who has gained over half a million followers on TikTok by fighting conspiracy theories, jokes make the truth go down just a bit easier. Richards joined Boston Public Radio to talk …

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