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Trump’s son and others, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, claimed falsely in tweets later hidden by warning labels that the president had won Pennsylvania — even though no such determination had been made. And the campaign’s spokesman, Tim
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With hundreds of thousands of votes left to count and high-profile races undecided, some Arizona leaders, national pundits and social media provocateurs have already started spreading conspiracies to undermine faith in election results. One national conservative group is planning a
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How should tech firms combat conspiracy theories and remove dangerously misleading content. It has proven to be a daunting challenge during the 2020 election. A team of researchers at Google’s Jigsaw worked last year with ethnographers at the consulting company ReD to take on that
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During the 2016 US election campaign, a conspiracy theory known as #Pizzagate went viral on rightwing websites. The theory, which claimed that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was involved in a child sex ring run from a Washington pizza restaurant,
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Kourtney Kardashian was condemned by social media users for spreading a false conspiracy theory about face masks. Kardashian shared a post on her Instagram Story claiming that blue surgical masks cause cancer—a conspiracy theory debunked by medical experts. “There is
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By Express News Service HYDERABAD: Continuing his attack on the BJP, Finance Minister T Harish Rao, on Tuesday, slammed the saffron party leaders stating that it had been resorting to Goebbel’s propaganda throughout the Dubbaka election campaign by spreading lies, conspiracies,
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Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor. Photo: Paramount Pictures In his essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” historian Richard Hofstadter identified a “sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy” that served as a recurring pattern in
Read MoreA conspiracy theory falsely claims that using a “Sharpie” marker to fill out ballots in Arizona caused votes for President Donald Trump to be invalidated. “Sharpies are just fine to use,” Megan Gilbertson, communications director for the Maricopa County Elections
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If Donald Trump loses his re-election bid, there will be a lot of ruin to sort through. But his most damaging and enduring legacy may well turn out to be the promiscuous use of conspiracy theories that have defined both
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Over the past few months, President Trump has repeatedly attacked the integrity of the US election by pushing a conspiracy theory that mail-in voting will lead to mass voter fraud. Never mind that mail-in ballot voter fraud rates have historically
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