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The conspiracy business: How to make money with fake news
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Archived 6 years ago from Deutsche Welle
The conspiracy business: How to make money with fake news

All advertising is in some sense a form of falsification. But while once the message probably had an actual thing — a car or a hamburger, perhaps — to sell, today the message itself is often the product. “The source of value is the watching labor performed by the audience — this after all is the …

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Hands on Wisconsin: “Fake Trump supporters” star in Ron Johnson’s latest conspiracy theory
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Archived 6 years ago from Madison.com
Hands on Wisconsin: “Fake Trump supporters” star in Ron Johnson’s latest conspiracy theory

.tnt-restrict-img-9cb6401c-aeda-5bb5-b0b2-e84f372212fb { max-width: 800px; } Phil Hands | Wisconsin State Journal In a hearing about the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, claimed the attack was led by “fake Trump supporters.” But the protesters who have been arrested …

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How radical Right conspiracy theories drive populist mobilisation
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Archived 5 years ago from Open Democracy
How radical Right conspiracy theories drive populist mobilisation

We looked at different forms of conspiracy, their themes and typical representations. We noticed that threats are imagined as coming from outside or inside. For example, there is the fear of ‘Islamization’, the threat of ‘invasion’ or the ‘replacement’ of white European citizens. Enemy images are …

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Behind the Nashville bombing, a conspiracy theorist stewing about the government
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Archived 6 years ago from Chattanooga Times Free Press
Behind the Nashville bombing, a conspiracy theorist stewing about the government

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Crystal Deck was opening presents on Christmas morning at her brother’s home when she heard the news that an enormous explosion had ripped through the historic heart of Nashville. She knew instantly that the bomber was her dearest friend, Anthony Q. Warner, and quickly began …

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Facebook says it cracked down on climate change lies. Then came false power outage claim during Texas winter storm
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Archived 6 years ago from USA TODAY
Facebook says it cracked down on climate change lies. Then came false power outage claim during Texas winter storm

Misleading claims shared by prominent conservatives that wind turbines caused massive winter storm power outages in Texas whipped through Facebook without fact-checking labels, racking up millions of views, according to a new report shared exclusively with USA TODAY. Human rights group Avaaz says …

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Tucker Carlson’s ‘we could not find’ QAnon comment was worse than it appears
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Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
Tucker Carlson’s ‘we could not find’ QAnon comment was worse than it appears

Stripped of context, it’s a nonsensical claim. There is probably not any actual individual who is “Q,” the anonymous source of various random allegations and cryptic comments that serve as the basis of the quasi-religious conspiracy theory QAnon. But there’s no question that the QAnon movement …

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Can Cult Studies Offer Help With QAnon? The Science Is Thin.
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Archived 6 years ago from Undark Magazine
Can Cult Studies Offer Help With QAnon? The Science Is Thin.

Days before the inauguration of President Joe Biden, at a time when some Americans were animated by the false conviction that former President Donald J. Trump had actually won the November election, a man in Colorado began texting warnings to his family. The coming days, he wrote, would be “the …

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Nashville Bomber Anthony Warner Was a Conspiracy Theorist
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Archived 6 years ago from The New York Times
Nashville Bomber Anthony Warner Was a Conspiracy Theorist

NASHVILLE — Crystal Deck was opening presents on Christmas morning at her brother’s home when she heard the news that an enormous explosion had ripped through the historic heart of Nashville. She knew instantly that the bomber was her dearest friend, Anthony Q. Warner, and quickly began fitting …

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Nashville Bomber Anthony Warner Was a Conspiracy Theorist
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Archived 6 years ago from The New York Times
Behind the Nashville Bombing, a Conspiracy Theorist Stewing About the Government

NASHVILLE — Crystal Deck was opening presents on Christmas morning at her brother’s home when she heard the news that an enormous explosion had ripped through the historic heart of Nashville. She knew instantly that the bomber was her dearest friend, Anthony Q. Warner, and quickly began fitting …

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