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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Former General Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s recently pardoned national security adviser, speaks during a protest of the outcome of the 2020 presidential election outside the Supreme Court on December 12, 2020 in Washington, DC.Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Michael Flynn appeared …
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By Bernie Suarez People who don’t trust government, those who think on their own and tend to question what they hear, by now are all becoming experts at identifying false flag staged events. With so many recent staged psyop events in the news lately many of us are getting a lot of practice at this. …
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