No, Keanu Reeves Did Not Write ‘Humans Will Break Free of the Matrix’

February 9, 2022 cia

Archived 5 years ago from Snopes Fact Checks
No, Keanu Reeves Did Not Write ‘Humans Will Break Free of the Matrix’

Keanu Reeves wrote or uttered a long message asserting that “Humans are about to release themselves from the matrix.” Origin In February 2022, an old quotation falsely attributed to the Hollywood star Keanu Reeves regained prominence on social media. It contained the type of generic new-age …

Conspiracy

February 9, 2022 cia, deep state, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from The New York Times
Birds Aren’t Real: Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory

annie correal From The New York Times, I’m Annie Correal. This is The Daily. [music] A new movement is underway to confront the growing threat of misinformation — by creating misinformation. Today: The improbable story of the group behind that movement, Birds Aren’t Real. I spoke with my colleague …

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February 8, 2022 russia

Archived 5 years ago from YouGov
What conspiracy theories did people around the world believe in 2021?

Research by the YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project, covering more than 25,000 people across 24 countries, reveals the different attitudes towards conspiracy theories in different parts of the world. The theory that a single group of people who secretly control events and rule the world together, …

Op-Ed: Fitting vaccine conspiracies into a philosophy of fiction

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February 7, 2022 antivax

Archived 5 years ago from Los Angeles Times
Op-Ed: Fitting vaccine conspiracies into a philosophy of fiction

As a philosophy professor specializing in language, it is my job to conceptually distinguish fiction from lies. Lies are falsehoods shared with the intent to deceive; fiction is falsehood shared without the intent to deceive. My academic work examines how it is that we think “Hamlet is a prince” is …

A Jan. 6 suspect died. Now the FBI has to prep for conspiracies.

Conspiracy

February 5, 2022

Archived 5 years ago from NBC News
A Jan. 6 suspect died. Now the FBI has to prep for conspiracies.

WASHINGTON — A man featured on the FBI’s website — wanted for assaulting police at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack — died months ago. Now the bureau has to figure out what to do about those photos. In the year since the Jan. 6 investigation began, the FBI has posted images of more than 500 …

Conspiracy

February 3, 2022

Archived 5 years ago from The Washington Post
National Butterfly Center, hounded by right-wing conspiracy theories, closes

Trevino Wright had seen this before. The National Butterfly Center had been targeted for years by right-wing figures falsely claiming that human smuggling and child sex-trafficking took place on the center’s property, located near the Rio Grande in Mission, Tex. And when Trevino Wright asked Lowe …

‘Birds Aren’t Real’ takes flight among Gen Zers

Conspiracy

February 3, 2022

Archived 5 years ago from University of Miami
‘Birds Aren’t Real’ takes flight among Gen Zers

The campaign, launched in 2017 as a parody social movement to mock the scores of conspiracy theories that proliferate the internet, has seen thousands of followers take up the slogan and even tout it on apparel. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. Wait, it can’t be a bird. Birds are not real. “Birds Aren’t …

Conspiracy

February 3, 2022

Archived 5 years ago from KQED
The Secret Economy of Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy theories can provide our brains with easy answers that jive with our preconceived notions and biases. They tend to appeal to “System One” thinking: our emotions, intuition, and gut reactions. According to psychologists, conspiracy theories play into some of our innate human desires, like …

Does social media banning of extremists like Oath Keepers and Trump work?

Conspiracy

February 3, 2022 2020 election, alex jones, big tech, marjorie taylor greene, qanon, trump

Archived 5 years ago from Vox.com
Does social media banning of extremists like Oath Keepers and Trump work?

It’s been over a year since Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube banned an array of domestic extremist networks, including QAnon, boogaloo, and Oath Keepers, that had flourished on their platforms leading up to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Around the same time, these companies also banned President …

Conspiracy

February 2, 2022 pizzagate, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from The Texas Tribune
Conspiracy theorists’ threats force Texas butterfly sanctuary to close

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A South Texas butterfly sanctuary has closed after it was the target of conspiracy theories that escalated into credible threats. The National Butterfly Center, along the U.S.-Mexico border …

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