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While much of America watched a mob of Trump supporters overrun police and break into the halls of Congress Wednesday afternoon, members of the far right chatted up an imaginary narrative of what was really going on. After weeks of planting the idea, dozens of extremists used social media to …
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Topline After years of what critics have charged to be insufficient efforts to rein in misinformation and hate speech online, Facebook, Twitter and a host of other social media companies sprang to action following the takeover of the U.S. Capitol, banning a host of prominent conspiracy theorists, …
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Disinformation is on the rampage with manipulated stories spreading like wildfire on social media. While disinformation has always been with us, the power at which it spreads on social media platforms is new. Since the 2016 US election, the term’s appearance in news headlines has grown tenfold. …
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Published: 1/11/2021 3:34:13 PM Modified: 1/11/2021 3:33:52 PM The invisibility of anti-Semitism is what strikes me about the media coverage of the events of Wednesday, Jan. 6. I was pleased that President-elect Joe Biden denounced the insurgents as “anti-Semites.” Yet, there’s a narrative being …
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2020 was a banner year for conspiracy theories. First there was the proliferation of QAnon, whose followers insisted that Donald Trump was all that stood between us and a “deep state” cabal that was running a global sex trafficking ring and harvesting a chemical from children’s blood. Then the …
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Long before the first needle pierced the skin to deliver Pfizer/BioNTech’s highly anticipated COVID-19 vaccine, social media was rife with speculation and fearmongering. Alongside pertinent questions about safety, efficacy, and the historic rapidity of the vaccine’s production were conspiracy …
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It was this article that led me to the discovery of the flat earth (as it was on a flat earth site). This happened one year ago. The site that I was on was mainly focused on medical fraud but they had a link to another site with a statement about the 7 astroNOTS who were supposedly killed back in …
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Insurgents swarmed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 to create chaos and defy legislators who had gathered to certify electoral votes. The presidential election, they say, was stolen—a belief encouraged by a powerful and trusted leader. “They rigged an election,” President Donald Trump falsely claimed …
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PROFESSOR’S VIEW OF HOW CONSPIRACY THOEIRES ARE SHAPING AMERICAN POLITICS… AND THREATENING DEMOCRACY. 1:00-1:13 WE OFTEN TALK ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES LIKE AN ECOSYSTEM OF STORIES THAT PEOPLE ARE INHABITING A WORLD OF AND SO I WOULDN’T SAY THAT NECESSARILY THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ENGAGED IN THE …
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Hours before Wednesday’s pro-Trump march in Washington was to begin, a crowd of a few hundred people in Tokyo gathered under American and Japanese “Rising Sun” flags — a symbol controversial in Asia because of its links to the Imperial era — to hold a march in support of the embattled U.S. …
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