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URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — Unfounded conspiracy theories can cause a lot of damage, especially when they’re about COVID-19. One of them is getting a lot of traction, and it actually started with a law professor at the University of Illinois. Francis Boyle believes the virus was man-made. He thinks it …
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In the months leading up to and after the election, researchers attempting to redirect people who sought out far-right groups away from disinformation found that in Arizonans searched for extremist content and conspiracy theories more than many other states. In September 2020, tech startup Moonshot …
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The rise of social media has allowed for easier dissemination of conspiracy theories, according to a recent report released by the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET). Author Daniel Allington elaborates on how the world’s largest social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and …
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Conspiracy theories are more popular and more widespread in the 21st century than they have ever been. They are powered by the rise of the internet and social media, enabled by the declining influence of traditional gatekeepers of opinion such as newspaper editors, TV executives and book …
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However, the most significant social change that has become part of our “new normal” is the increase spread of false conspiracy theories. The preconditions were ripe. We already had “legitimate” news sources and political leaders claiming that anything they did not agree with was “fake news.” The …
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It took just three months for the rumor that Covid-19 was engineered as a bioweapon to spread from the fringes of the Chinese internet and take root in millions of people’s minds. By March 2020, belief that the virus had been human-made and possibly weaponized was widespread, multiple surveys …
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BRUSSELS (AP) — It took just three months for the rumor that COVID-19 was engineered as a bioweapon to spread from the fringes of the Chinese internet and take root in millions of people’s minds. By March 2020, belief that the virus had been human-made and possibly weaponized was widespread, …
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On Jan. 29, Representative Cori Bush of Missouri decided that she wanted her office in Congress to be moved. This decision was made due to her verbal conflict with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. The argument began as a confrontation about masks and then escalated. Greene’s team began …
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“They would then start to send me information about Big Pharma, which then led into information related to Bill Gates, then to sex trafficking,” says Ms Corn. “I also saw a different language being used amongst my peers: ‘The Great Awakening’, ‘The Storm’, ‘Where We Go One, We Go All’.”
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These days, many people have a hard time detecting misinformation. Jacqueline F. is one of them. In 2019, she fell for a screenshot of a fake newspaper article posted on Instagram claiming that Chilean police had abused and hung protesters. At the time, the country was in the middle of large-scale …
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