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{{featured_button_text}} The Missoulian should seriously reconsider the standards for letters to the editor.On Jan. 4, a letter from Linda Brooks-Curtis was published, objecting to “evil-financed computer operatives who stole our presidential election in 2020.” On March 21, a letter from Phoenix …
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Online radicalism, political polarization, conspiracy theories and disinformation, and the political response to growing extremism both internationally and domestic, plus how to talk with loved ones caught in a web of conspiracy theories, are among the topics in the University of Michigan’s …
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has about a hundred trailers set aside for wildfire survivors from Jackson County. It originally had those trailers staged at the Jackson County Fairgrounds, known as the Expo, as officials looked for potential housing sites nearby. But they recently had to …
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Once we understand how many ingredients there can be to the conspiracy theory cocktail, we can begin to appreciate how tricky it is to bring someone in the workplace ‘round to reality’, or question whether we even should. Everyone is entitled to their views and beliefs, but if they breed mistrust, …
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Nelba Márquez-Greene, a family therapist, and her husband, Jimmy Greene, a jazz saxophonist, moved from Canada to Newtown, Conn., with their two children in the summer of 2012. Situated less than two hours from New York City, with a population of about 28,000, it was statistically one of the safest …
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Conspiracy theories appear to be increasing in popularity as the Covid-19 pandemic continues. But to what extent do people really agree with them, and what is the association with cognitive biases? A research team from the University of Basel studied these questions in German-speaking Switzerland …
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Conspiracy theories are neither conspiratorial nor are they theory. Rather, they are narratives of intelligibility; they narrate the world in such a way that it becomes habitable by those who have been excluded from access to the necessities of life by the current economic system. The fact that …
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AFTON, Va. — Denver Riggleman stood virtually alone. It was Oct. 2, on the floor of the House of Representatives, and he rose as one of only two Republicans in the chamber to speak in favor of a resolution denouncing QAnon. Mr. Riggleman, a freshman congressman from Virginia, had his own personal …
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TikTok videos promoting QAnon and anti-vaccine conspiracies are surging in popularity despite a crackdown by the popular social media app, according to a new report shared exclusively with USA TODAY. Bogus claims spreading under the hashtag #GlobalRebellion4Freedom include a shadow government …
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Barack Obama was about to become president, and Kathryn Olmsted was worried. The historian, an expert on the combustible blend of politics, conspiracy and paranoia, feared her new book on the subject would soon be irrelevant. With George W. Bush leaving office, she figured, the chatter about the …
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