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How 9/11 Ushered in a New Era of Conspiracy Theories
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Archived 5 years ago from Scientific American
How 9/11 Ushered in a New Era of Conspiracy Theories

All governments lie and distort to advance their agendas. But it’s fair to regard the current moment as a singular age of unreality in recent United States politics. Most members of one party have embraced an explicitly fictional world, one in which the 2020 election was stolen by rampant election …

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Perspective | A key legacy of 9/11? The way conspiracy theories spread online.
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Archived 5 years ago from The Washington Post
Perspective | A key legacy of 9/11? The way conspiracy theories spread online.

The most important rumors, of course, had to do with the search for the “truth” of what happened on 9/11. At first scattered, challenges to the “official story” were everywhere — on political blogs and message boards, and later on VHS tapes, burned DVDs and eventually YouTube. Such content …

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How the 9/11 attacks helped shape the modern misinformation, conspiracy theory industry
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Archived 5 years ago from PolitiFact
How the 9/11 attacks helped shape the modern misinformation, conspiracy theory industry

Outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a New Jersey man held up his hand for a camera as he told a local TV reporter about the chaotic scene he’d just witnessed inside the building.  His palm was smeared with blood — blood that belonged to Ashli Babbitt, the woman fatally shot by law enforcement as …

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Conspiracy theories have run amok; can education save us?
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Archived 5 years ago from Iowa City Press-Citizen
Conspiracy theories have run amok; can education save us?

Question: Who would ever believe Ever Green, the ship that blocked the Suez Canal (March 23-29), was a human trafficking vessel connected to Hillary Clinton because its radio call sign, H3RC, contained Hillary’s initials, HRC?  Answer: QAnon followers, who also believed Donald Trump was under …

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Opinion: Conspiracy theories have run amok; can education save us?
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Archived 5 years ago from Iowa City Press-Citizen
Opinion: Conspiracy theories have run amok; can education save us?

Question: Who would ever believe Ever Green, the ship that blocked the Suez Canal (March 23-29), was a human trafficking vessel connected to Hillary Clinton because its radio call sign, H3RC, contained Hillary’s initials, HRC?  Answer: QAnon followers, who also believed Donald Trump was under …

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Racism, Islamophobia and conspiracy theories among extremist views witnessed in classrooms, study finds
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Archived 5 years ago from The Independent
Racism, Islamophobia and conspiracy theories among extremist views witnessed in classrooms, study finds

A majority of teachers have heard students express extremist views including racism, homophobia and conspiracy theories in classrooms across England, a study suggests. But schools are unable to tackle extremism in young people due to a lack of resources and training, as well as limited space in the …

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Spanish-language Covid disinformation is aimed at Latinos as delta surges
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Archived 5 years ago from NBC News
Spanish-language Covid disinformation is aimed at Latinos as delta surges

MIAMI — On a recent show on Actualidad, a Miami AM radio station, the host was promoting a false cure for Covid-19: the use of ivermectin, a drug used to deworm animals. The Food and Drug Administration has been warning against its use and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has …

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Sidharth Shukla death: Fans flood Twitter with conspiracy theories as post-mortem finds ‘no injury’
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Archived 5 years ago from The Independent
Sidharth Shukla death: Fans flood Twitter with conspiracy theories as post-mortem finds ‘no injury’

Fans of Sidharth Shukla flooded Twitter with conspiracy theories a day after his sudden death, even though a post mortem report on Friday did not find any “external or internal injuries” on the popular Indian actor. The 40-year-old actor was declared dead on Thursday at a hospital in India’s …

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Finally, a Fun Conspiracy Theory: Roy Kent on ‘Ted Lasso’ Is CGI
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Archived 5 years ago from WIRED
Finally, a Fun Conspiracy Theory: Roy Kent on ‘Ted Lasso’ Is CGI

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Leave it to Apple to deepfake an entire person. Well, OK wait, let me explain. A while back, rumors—jokes, mainly—started floating around Reddit that Ted Lasso’s Roy …

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Acceptance of conspiracy theories went up | Northwest & National News | nbcrightnow.com
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Archived 5 years ago from NBC Right Now
Acceptance of conspiracy theories went up | Northwest & National News | nbcrightnow.com

Perhaps because it was one of the first major domestic tragedies to take place after the rise of the internet, the number of widely believed conspiracy theories increased after the 9/11 attacks. To this day, there are a number of conspiracies about the day itself, namely that it was some kind of …

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