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SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter said on Monday that it was suspending Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from its service for 12 hours after she posted messages that violated its policy against sharing misleading information about the coronavirus. Ms. Greene, Republican of Georgia, has been an outspoken …
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We can use this, though, to figure out the overlap with climate change and the voter-fraud claim. So, for example, 14 percent of Republicans both won’t get a coronavirus vaccine and think climate change isn’t happening. Twice as many think that rampant fraud happened and say they won’t get a …
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There is no Democratic or Republican way to land on the moon. I was 10 years old on the Sunday afternoon of July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 made its more-hairy-than-we-realized touchdown on the lunar surface and Neil Armstrong famously said, “The Eagle has landed.” Even at the tail end of the fraught …
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Last May, a Public Religion Research Institute survey found that nearly one in five members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes in QAnon — placing them just about in the middle of the Christian denominations polled. Scholar Matthew Harris traces conspiracy beliefs among LDS …
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On July 17, 1996, a Boeing 747 exploded in midair off the coast of Long Island. The flight from New York City to Rome with a stop in Paris broke apart and fell into the ocean below. The 230 people onboard Trans World Airlines Flight 800 perished. As quickly as the wreckage plunged into the Atlantic …
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A 90-minute anti-child sex trafficking documentary by a Polish filmmaker promoting various tropes related to the conspiracy theory QAnon has gone viral on TikTok and YouTube, despite both platforms’ purported efforts to halt the spread of viral misinformation. A highly incendiary, sensationalized …
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Conspiracy theories: they run as far back as the Salem witch trials and we bump into them quite often now a days on social media. But sometimes separating fact from fiction isn’t easy, and perhaps even more difficult is helping a loved one sort out a belief which lacks backing. So how do we …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is falsely describing the circumstances of Ashli Babbitt’s death as he foments conspiracy theories about the siege of the Capitol on Jan. 6 and all the “love in the air” that day. In comments over the past week, Trump insinuated that a Democratic …
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In 2014, two researchers from the University of Chicago published a paper entitled, “Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion” (American Journal of Political Science). Using data from four nationally representative surveys, they found roughly half of adult Americans routinely …
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Police lead Piers Corbyn away from a lockdown protest in Hyde Park. Reading about Piers Corbyn, brother of Jeremy, at the weekend reminded me that in any contest between conspiracy theorists and cock-up theorists, my money is always on the latter. I’ve always thought incompetence and ineptitude are …
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