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From President Trump’s phone call to Georgia officials demanding to “find” more votes to Trump supporters heading to D.C. to reject the election results — disinformation is playing a key role. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: This is shaping up to be an especially turbulent week in politics. There are the …
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), an on-again, off-again Trump foe who organized a group willing to stand athwart the inevitable during the Jan. 6 certification, received a tweet of approval. This isn’t what Cruz’s lawyerly statement actually said, nor is it what he said during the appearance on Fox News …
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Source: Image by Jnk2007 on Flickr Karlfried Graf von Durckheim was a remarkable German man who helped to popularize Zen Buddhism in the west. He had his first spiritual experiences during the First World War when he came close to death on the battlefield. In these moments, Durckheim became aware …
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Maya Villasenor is a former Digital and Cyberspace Policy program intern at the Council on Foreign Relations and an engineering student at Columbia University. 2020 was a plague year, and not only from an epidemiological standpoint: disinformation went mainstream, and conspiracy theories that …
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A coalition of environmentalists is tracking online disinformation about climate change in response to a rising tide of conspiratorial thinking among the American electorate. The informal group is led by representatives of Friends of the Earth and the Environmental Defense Fund, and includes …
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Analysis: conspiracy theories have been widespread during this pandemic and pose a significant risk to health By Joanne McVeigh and Malcolm MacLachlan, Maynooth University A recent Brainstorm article looked at our susceptibility to conspiracy theories during epidemics, and the gravitation towards …
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Two days before Anthony Warner blew himself up in an RV in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, he mailed a package to a person who knew him. The package arrived at their house on New Year’s Day and contained nine typed pages and two USB thumb drives. According to WTVF, he may have mailed similar …
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CBS NEWS Recommended The Nashville bomber sent packages containing writings and videos promoting conspiracy theories to multiple people just days prior to the blast, CBS News confirms. Authorities identified Anthony Warner as the suspect in the Christmas Day bombing and say he killed himself in the …
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One morning, the president experienced severe stomach cramps. Since he had a milkshake for breakfast, he decided it was because his milk was poisoned. In fact, he was crampy all day, and the next, so he figured it must be a conspiracy and that all the milk was poisoned. “America’s milk has been …
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The claim: A professor at Cornell University said ‘COVID 19 does not exist’ In attempts to push baseless and debunked claims that the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax, some social media users are sharing a lengthy statement that claims to be authored by a professor at Cornell University. A viral …
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