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Press play to listen to this article Amazon is profiting from disinformation linked to COVID-19 falsehoods and QAnon, the debunked conspiracy theory, according to POLITICO’s analysis of hundreds of books sold on the e-commerce giant’s global online marketplace. Across the company’s multiple …
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By Toluse Olorunnipa, Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman and Emma Brown, With his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud rejected by dozens of judges and GOP leaders, President Trump has turned to a ragtag group of conspiracy theorists, media-hungry lawyers and other political misfits in a …
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The recent rules changes have upended holiday plans for many of us, but you still may find yourself grappling with such situations over the next few days. *** This archive is incomplete. The original version from BBC News can be found here ***
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As Australians look back on 2020, they will remember the defeat of Donald Trump, who was never popular in their country. But they may also reflect on how parts of Australia’s media, including some ostensibly subject to government regulation, have become effective second fronts in the Trumpist …
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During a White House meeting, the outgoing president also asked about deploying the military to ‘rerun’ the election. Ex-NSA Michael Flynn, whom Trump recently pardoned, called on the president to declare martial law President Donald Trump on Friday discussed naming Sidney Powell, who as a lawyer …
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Australia experienced two major emergency events in 2020 – the summer bushfires followed shortly after by the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout these events, social media played a critical role in providing information, facilitating social connection and public discussions. However, there was also a …
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Conspiracy theories offer simple, understandable explanations of events and help us regain a belief in human control over situations. Joining the Dots is a fortnightly column by author and journalist Samrat in which he connects events to ideas, often through analysis, but occasionally through …
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We all do it to some degree. We adopt perspectives and behaviors because they seem consistent with our personal identity. We make one decision (making an effort to buy only organic food, for instance) and that shapes future decisions and beliefs (such as views on the safety of genetically modified …
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A Corner Brook university professor has co-authored a new book exploring the emergence of pandemic conspiracy theories. Grenfell Campus folklorist John Bodner is one of six authors of Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas. Per a synopsis, the book …
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Topline Dominion Voting Systems called on former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell to retract her groundless accusations of voter fraud involving the company’s voting machines, which it characterized in a letter to the right-wing lawyer Wednesday as “wild” and “knowingly baseless,” and …
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