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Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is responsible for all damages in two lawsuits instigated after he falsely called the Sandy Hook shooting a “giant hoax,” a Texas judge ruled this week. Why it matters: This is Jones’ latest defeat in
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“No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.”—Albert Speer, Nuremberg Trials It’s no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying its mandates but when. This is what we know:
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President Macron has set up a commission charged with fighting the conspiracy theories that he believes are a “poison” threatening French society. The members of the commission, Enlightenment in the Digital Era, will include about 15 academics, as well as
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A growing number of elected Republicans are openly promoting “white replacement theory,” a decades-old conspiracy theory that’s animated terrorist attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Why it matters: This mainstreams what once was the sole provenance of white supremacists.
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A growing number of elected Republicans are openly promoting “white replacement theory,” a decades-old conspiracy theory that’s animated terrorist attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Why it matters: This mainstreams what once was the sole provenance of white supremacists.
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Ajay Sethi is interviewed about COVID-19 by a Milwaukee TV station. He estimates that he has done about 300 media interviews since the pandemic started. Fox 6 Milwaukee There was a time when getting calls from reporters wasn’t part of
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That report spurred an unusual reaction. Social media companies, concerned about having been vectors for Russian misinformation in 2016, limited the sharing of the Post’s story. This was framed by the right as being an effort to protect Biden (though
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A new report from ad giant IPG criticizes the major social networks like YouTube and Facebook for misinformation. The report calls Facebook a “significant source of climate misinformation.” IPG encouraged its clients, which include Coca-Cola and AmEx, to move their
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After the Pentagon mandated the COVID-19 vaccines for the U.S. military in late August, a viral story describing an intense backlash among service members exploded online. “27 U.S. Air Force Pilots Resign Over Covid-19 Vaccination Mandate,” said the headline on
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Recently, a group of unnamed hackers claiming association with the hacker collective known as Anonymous released more than 180 gigabytes of data from Epik, a web-hosting company whose clients included a number of alt-right groups and services, including right-wing Twitter
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