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Minutes after the pro-Trump, right-wing outlet One America News Network (OAN) made a baseless claim about the election, President Donald Trump tweeted the allegation. Trump’s tweet alleged, based only on OAN’s baseless segment, that an election-software company had switched more than one million …
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Did you know that there are still people today who believe the Earth is flat? Behind the Curve, a 2018 Netflix documentary, provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the Flat Earth movement in the United States. This documentary reveals that many “Flat Earthers” are surprisingly …
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Twitter took more than an hour to flag a highly misleading video shared by Donald Trump, which baselessly pushed claims of ballot fraud and was retweeted more than 70,000 times before the platform took action. The president, who lost the US election to Joe Biden last week, shared a video of …
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They call him Marshal Tweeto. Janez Jansa, the right-wing prime minister of Slovenia, used Twitter to declare Donald J. Trump the winner of the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 4, saying, “It’s pretty clear that American people have elected @realDonaldTrump @Mike_Pence for #4moreyears.” Alas, …
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Nature: To counter conspiracy theories, boost well-beingAleksandra Cichocka, political psychologist at the University of Kent and affiliate of the Nicolaus Copernicus University “…[T]hose who believe conspiracy theories are less likely than those who don’t to comply with public health measures. The …
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Ideasroom Nicholas Agar explains why there can be terrible consequences in not responding promptly and emphatically to dangerous belief “PUBLIC NOTICE: COVID-19 IS A FRAUD.” So began a flyer placed in a number of letterboxes in Brooklyn, Wellington, on the morning of November 6. The flyer …
Read MoreYouTuber Veronica Wang, known for her Mukbang eating videos, called Democrats “demons” and baselessly accused the political party of pedophilia and child trafficking. Wang, who has 1.73 million YouTube subscribers and nearly 200,000 Instagram followers, spread theories associated with QAnon, the …
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Family doctors trusted source of information (From the University of Delaware) The World Health Organization calls the spread of false information about the coronavirus an “infodemic.” The refusal of some people to wear a mask or socially distance, or self-quarantine when exposed to the virus, is …
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NewsOpinionColumnists Whether the day that brought news of a Covid-19 vaccine able to prevent 90 per cent of people from Covid-19 was truly “a great day for science and humanity” – as described by the chair of Pfizer, Dr Albert Bourla – remains to be seen. Tuesday, 10th November 2020, 12:30 pm
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WORLD VIEW 10 November 2020 It is better to stop misinformation taking root than to try to weed it out. Aleksandra Cichocka Aleksandra Cichocka is a political psychologist at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, and an affiliate of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Contact …
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