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TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – QAnon’s days as a solely US phenomenon are over. The conspiracy theory’s foothold in Japan – home to one of its most active networks outside the United States – demonstrates how the movement can be made palatable in a range of countries as it gains popularity from Europe to …
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Unless you’ve been on a silent retreat for the past year, you will have almost certainly heard the rumours – that the pandemic is an elaborate hoax, or that the virus was created as a Chinese weapon, or that dangerous elites are trying to kill off the elderly and to establish a new world order, or …
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The alliance between anti-vaxxers and QAnon followers is rapidly increasing as they continue their plight to spread massive amounts of disturbing misinformation amid the pandemic. One glaring example centers around one incident that occurred last week. Facebook opted to nix a massive …
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Conspiracy theories last thing we need A recent opinion piece put forth a creative comparison between The Three Musketeers, an 1844 French adventure novel, and America’s response to the current COVID pandemic. The novel, a swashbuckler full of sword-wielding heroes who fight for justice, is often …
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In a mansion in the Staffordshire Potteries once owned by a scourge of the Napoleonic navy lives a scourge of fake news. On Valentine’s Day, 1797, Admiral John Jervis defeated a fleet of French warships outnumbering him two to one. Nearly 225 years on, Lyric Jain has just returned to his family …
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A COMMUNITY nurse working at my GP local practice told me a horrific story. When giving infants their normal set of vaccinations she was surprised how many mums were refusing to have the injections because they had read on social media “that’s how children get the coronavirus.” Last weekend …
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The rise to prominence of conspiracy movements has generated much angst among mainstream commentators. In the lead-up to the US presidential election, QAnon, which believes that Donald Trump is leading a secret battle against a cabal of child-abusing, blood-drinking liberal elites, became a …
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Terrorist and organized crime groups are spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic in order to erode people’s trust in government or spread their ideology and gain more supporters, the UN warned in a report published this month. The goal is to erode trust in …
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Conspiracy theories have been around since long before the internet provided an omnipresent forum for them. Who killed JFK? Aliens in Roswell! Paul is dead! Elvis Lives! The list is long and generally pretty tawdry. Whether spread on social media, via tabloid publications or through old-school …
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I generally don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I actually find most of them silly and baseless. The John F. Kennedy assassination in 1964 was likely the place where these alternate conspiracy theories were born. Along came the moon landing and the conspiracy theories questioning the authenticity …
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