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High levels of threat perception in situations with informational uncertainty impeded societal learning and fostered conspiracy beliefs. These findings, from a panel study of perceptions about COVID-19, were published in Personality and Individual Differences. Data for this study were collected
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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The fencing that surrounded the United States Capitol after the January 6 attack is still in place today. And that matters because security in Washington is especially tight. This day, March 4, holds significance for some people
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In my postscript to historical communism, I concentrated on the role of language in socialist society and how it differs from the role of language in capitalist society. Under the conditions of capitalism, discursive practice carries the goal of producing
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The director of the FFBI told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that there was no evidence that the January 6 Capitol riot was carried out by leftist extremists under the guise of right-wing extremists. In his opening statement, director
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Photo by RichVintage | Getty Images One Republican legislator who has built a national following by falsely insisting there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election in Arizona is now pushing a new evidence-free conspiracy theory: A planned audit by
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Concerning conspiracy theories, I’m with Michael Moore who once said, “Now, I’m not into conspiracy theories, except the ones that are true…” Many people regard all conspiracy theories as false, and many others will believe any conspiracy theory that comes
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By Simon Ings The symbol of the QAnon far-right conspiracy theory Pacific Press/Lightrocket via Getty Images You Are Here Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner Advertisement MIT Press THIS is a book about pollution, not of the physical environment, but
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Matt Williams for NPR Matt Williams for NPR Michelle Queen does not consider herself part of QAnon, but she does believe some of its most outlandish conspiracies – including that Satan-worshipping elites in a secret pedophile cabal are killing babies
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The congregation was in the middle of an online service when a longtime churchgoer in her 60s texted her pastor to complain that his prayer lamenting the riot the U.S. Capitol in January was “too political.” The woman later unloaded
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The last few weeks of news coverage have reminded us how easy it is to create, disseminate and proliferate misinformation in India. The ingredients are often the same: a hot-button topic, local or foreign bad actors, explicit or implicit collusion
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