The “Real” Conspiracy Theories Behind Roland Emmerich’s ‘Moonfall’

October 28, 2021 nasa

Archived 5 years ago from Vanity Fair
The “Real” Conspiracy Theories Behind Roland Emmerich’s ‘Moonfall’

The Hollow Moon concept has been fueled by fanciful fiction, and just enough misconstrued science to keep things plausible. In his 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon, H.G. Wells imagined the rocky orb as a hive for enormous ant-like aliens known as Selenites. Edgar Rice Burroughs and Isaac Asimov …

Conspiracy

October 27, 2021 5g, antivax, covid19, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Global News
Canadians falling prey to conspiracy theories despite strong trust in institutions: poll

The good news is Canadians have a lot of trust in their institutions. The not-so-good news is that a strong minority of Canadians believe a small cabal of people “secretly manipulate” world events from the shadows. New polling conducted for Elections Canada suggested that Canadians have strong …

Conspiracy

October 26, 2021 5g, antivax, bill gates, china, epstein, fauci

Archived 5 years ago from The Guardian
Why people believe Covid conspiracy theories: could folklore hold the answer?

Loading… Researchers have mapped the web of connections underpinning coronavirus conspiracy theories, opening a new way of understanding and challenging them. Using Danish witchcraft folklore as a model, the researchers from UCLA and Berkeley analysed thousands of social media posts with an …

How China spreads misinformation around the world | Here & Now

Conspiracy

October 25, 2021 china, moon landing

Archived 5 years ago from Here And Now
How China spreads misinformation around the world | Here & Now

Early last year when U.S. health experts looked into the possibility that COVID-19 leaked from a lab in China — either accidentally or on purpose — Chinese propaganda-makers responded. They amplified rumors that the virus came from the United States, specifically from an Army research lab called …

Facebook researchers saw how its algorithms led to misinformation: Liberals to “Moscow Mitch,” conservatives to QAnon

Conspiracy

October 25, 2021 big tech, qanon, russia

Archived 5 years ago from CBS News
Facebook researchers saw how its algorithms led to misinformation: Liberals to “Moscow Mitch,” conservatives to QAnon

Facebook researchers in 2019 created three dummy accounts to study the platform’s technology for recommending content in the News Feed. The first was for a user in India, its biggest market. Then it created two more test accounts to represent a conservative American user and a liberal one. All …

Vaccine-passport opponent Rebecca Matthews talks about taking City of Vancouver to court over Corduroy’s licence

Conspiracy

October 24, 2021 alex jones, antivax, china, covid19, great reset, pizzagate

Archived 5 years ago from The Georgia Straight
Vaccine-passport opponent Rebecca Matthews talks about taking City of Vancouver to court over Corduroy’s licence

The City of Vancouver has suspended a restaurateur’s business licence until December 31 after it repeatedly refused to ask patrons for proof of vaccination. In response to this, Corduroy owner Rebecca Matthews says that she may launch litigation against the City of Vancouver to get it back sooner …

Conspiracy

October 24, 2021 2020 election, antivax, covid19, qanon, trump

Archived 2 years ago from The Telegraph
Inside the QAnon conspiracy conference where keynote speaker Eric Trump riles up crowds

Sitting in a packed conference hall in Nashville at the weekend, hundreds of people roared in support as the speaker on stage discussed the coming “war” against the “satanic order” controlling the country. The crowd nodded along in agreement as another speaker claimed powerful elites had …

Eric Trump mocks ‘sensitive’ US army as he tells rally father Donald is ‘gonna be back’

Conspiracy

October 24, 2021 2020 election, antivax, china, covid19, qanon, trump

Archived 2 years ago from The Telegraph
Eric Trump mocks ‘sensitive’ US army as he tells rally father Donald is ‘gonna be back’

Eric Trump mocked America’s top general for running “sensitivity training” for the military while China tested nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles, at a conference attended by throngs of QAnon supporters and vaccine conspiracy theorists. The son of the former president gave one of the strongest …

Conspiracy

October 23, 2021 deep state, moon landing

Archived 5 years ago from Los Angeles Times
In “Inside Job” conspiracy theories are just the backdrop

In “Inside Job,” certain celebrities and politicians are revealed to be members of a race of shape-shifting lizard people that secretly live alongside humans. These reptoids help fund the work of the shadow government, which in turn ensures that the Earth stays at their preferred climate. That’s …

Conspiracy

October 23, 2021 2020 election, big tech, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from PCMag
Want to Avoid Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation on Facebook? Good Luck

Facebook has been accused of knowing that its platform enabled misinformation to reach a significant number of people, especially in the US, long before the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol led to increased scrutiny of the company’s policies. NBC News reports that …

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