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The world was supposed to breathe a collective sigh of relief in 2021—at least when it came to extremist, radicalized thinking. Donald Trump was out of office. QAnon, that cult-like movement operating under the belief that a secret pedophile cabal runs the world, was losing steam. Vaccines were …
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Parenting communities on Facebook were subject to a powerful misinformation campaign early in the COVID-19 pandemic that pulled them closer to extreme groups and their misinformation, according to a new study published by researchers at George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts and …
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Nick Blanchard was one of thousands of people from across the U.S. who traveled to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, to attend the “Save America” rally on the National Mall, where then-President Donald Trump was speaking. The Waterville resident attended the rally and left at 2:12 p.m., he later …
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By Reuters Fact Check 4 Min Read Social media users are claiming that only one film is available in theaters in the U.S. on Jan. 6 and Jan. 7, 2022, suggesting that it could have a connection to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Examples can be seen here and here . The text in the posts …
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The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was the culmination of months of false claims about election fraud, including a litany recited by then-President Donald Trump in a speech shortly before a mob stormed the building, temporarily halting the counting of electoral votes in a joint session of …
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A gallows set up outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Credit: Tyler Merbler. CC BY 2.0 Dylann Roof allegedly had a drug problem. He drifted between homes and schools growing up and had quit a landscaping job by the time he killed nine people in a racist attack on a church in Charleston, South …
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Parenting communities on Facebook were subject to a powerful misinformation campaign early in the COVID-19 pandemic that pulled them closer to extreme groups and their misinformation, according to a new study published by researchers at George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts and …
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Americans had to confront a new reality when an angry mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021: Some of their fellow citizens were in the grips of a false reality and had resorted to violence to support it. Conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election and the strange alternate …
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The surface-level facts of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 are not very complicated. Trump hosted a well-attended rally in Washington, D.C. to stoke anger over Congress certifying the results of the previous November’s election. After weeks of telling his supporters that the election had been stolen, …
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Russell Brand is aptly named. His brand has long been loud and specific and memorable; the manic pixie dream dude from Forgetting Sarah Marshall had a show on the BBC’s Radio 2 before he emerged on the American scene as a tall, attractive scamp in leather pants and hair like an onion dome. He …
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