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There are two core strains of denialism apparent in mainstream America today: that the election was a fraud and that Covid doesn’t exist. We’ve all heard how misinformation spreads like a virus. But we’ve watched it in real time over
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Topline As promised, President Donald Trump asked to join Texas’ longshot Supreme Court bid to overturn his electoral losses on Wednesday, but the president’s motion was not signed by a member of his campaign’s fabled “elite strike force” of public-facing
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Editor: Most conspiracy theories are false, claiming that random events represent a sinister pattern to gain an advantage or to harm others. Often they are used by people or groups to secure power. Their frequency and uncritical acceptance increase during
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From sensationalism, to bias, to flat-out false information, there are many ways the consumer can be bamboozled in the age of online and televised media. We are constantly bombarded with mediated information from all sides, whether it is over television,
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Weeks after controversy erupted after a mischaracterization of a routine local government housekeeping measure in Waynesville, conspiracy theorists continue to spread false information about COVID-19 and a purported mask mandate. The latest, a pair of videos posted to a Facebook
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TribLIVE’s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. You aren’t a conservative if you believe in conspiracy theories. Before I defend this statement, I should say that as a
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Burke’s argument was more about the nature of a just regime, but it rested on the belief that government planners, no matter how smart, cannot simply will into existence whatever they want the world to look like through raw intellect.
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Following Sunday’s Georgia Senate run-off debate, some social media users falsely claimed that Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler was wearing an earpiece, implying that she may have been fed answers. It’s a truly unoriginal conspiracy theory. The same baseless claim was
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It was on their weekly video call that Kasey Edwards first noticed the flat Earth poster in her mother’s house. The poster had quietly replaced an ordinary framed photo in the background. It struck Kasey as odd, but she believed
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President Bill Clinton applauds Air Force pilot Scott O’Grady, who was shot down in Bosnia and survived six days in the woods, in 1995. Now a Trump supporter and tapped for a top Pentagon job, O’Grady has been endorsing baseless
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