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Fake coronavirus cures, 5G and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are spreading during India’s second wave
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Archived 1 year ago from Coda Story
Fake coronavirus cures, 5G and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are spreading during India’s second wave

Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images “Covid is on its way out,” said Harsh Vardhan, India’s health minister, in early March. But, little more than a month later, a second wave of infections has thrown the country into chaos.  Record numbers of more than 300,000 new Covid-19 cases are being …

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Conspiracy theories characterise views in and about Europe
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Archived 5 years ago from EurekAlert
Conspiracy theories characterise views in and about Europe

IMAGE: Andreas Önnerfors, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Department of History, Uppsala University. view more  Credit: Tea Jahrehorn Conspiratorial narratives of internal disintegration and external threats affect views in the European Union and Europe to an increasing extent. Our trust …

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Was Phar Lap killed by gangsters? Fresh research explores which conspiracies people believe in and why
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Archived 5 years ago from Horsetalk
Was Phar Lap killed by gangsters? Fresh research explores which conspiracies people believe in and why

Phar Lap. (AP) Almost a third of Australians believe the racehorse Phar Lap’s sudden death in San Francisco in 1932 was the result of poisoning by US gangsters. Researchers Mathew Marques, Jim McLennan, John Kerr, Mathew Ling and Matt Williams discuss their recently published research, which shows …

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Is Amazon recommending books on QAnon and white nationalism? Browsing books can lead to extremist rabbit hole
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Archived 5 years ago from USA TODAY
Is Amazon recommending books on QAnon and white nationalism? Browsing books can lead to extremist rabbit hole

Amazon’s book recommendation algorithms that help customers discover new titles may have a dark side. A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue says these algorithms steer people to books about conspiracy theories and extremism, sometimes introducing them to the work of conspiracy …

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The 1990s card game that ‘predicted’ 9/11, Donald Trump, Covid and the Capitol riot
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Archived 5 years ago from The Independent
The 1990s card game that ‘predicted’ 9/11, Donald Trump, Covid and the Capitol riot

An out-of-print multiplayer card game that first appeared in 1994 is continuing to attract interest and unease online over its apparently eerie ability to “predict” major global events, from 9/11 to the election of Donald Trump, the coronavirus pandemic and the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January …

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Amazon’s algorithms promote extremist misinformation, report says
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Archived 5 years ago from The Seattle Times
Amazon’s algorithms promote extremist misinformation, report says

Amazon.com’s search and recommendation algorithms channel customers into consuming increasingly extremist misinformation, according to a new report. The report, by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, adds to a growing body of research on how digital platforms — including Facebook, YouTube and …

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Phar Lap and RWC finals: NZ’s most popular conspiracy theories revealed
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Archived 5 years ago from Newstalk ZB
Phar Lap and RWC finals: NZ’s most popular conspiracy theories revealed

The Apollo moon landings were faked, Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone to assassinate JFK, governments are hiding the existence of UFOs. These are some classic conspiracy theories that almost everyone has heard about, and a sizeable number of people agree with. But little research has …

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Opinion: Voter fraud conspiracy theories undermine our children’s futures
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Archived 5 years ago from Houston Chronicle
Opinion: Voter fraud conspiracy theories undermine our children’s futures

Regarding “Editorial: The Big Lie — The Texas GOP’s not listening, but voter suppression is bad for business,” (A15, April 26): My question is: Where do our future children and their children fit into this vicious scenario? What is the goal in spouting all these big lies and conspiracy theories? Is …

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What do balding and conspiracy theories have in common?
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Archived 5 years ago from ABC News
What do balding and conspiracy theories have in common?

Josh Szeps fills in on ABC Radio Sydney Afternoons and takes on Panel for the Ages. Broadcasters, Geraldine Doogue and Peter Berner discuss the conspiracy theories they kind of believe but are blown away by Musician, Gabbi Bolt, who takes the cake for wildest conspiracy theory amongst the classical …

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