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By now, we’re all keenly aware of the threat posed by the novel coronavirus and we all know first-hand how our race to meet that threat head-on has altered the way we learn, do business and interact with each other. But another sea-change is coming. The stupendous rise in the popularity and …
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By now, we’re all keenly aware of the threat posed by the novel coronavirus and we all know firsthand how our race to meet that threat head-on has altered the way we learn, do business and interact with each other. But another sea change is coming. The stupendous rise in the popularity and …
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The election is over, but the misinformation age is just beginning. While President Donald Trump, who has been a major disseminator of falsehoods, lost the election to Democratic challenger Joe Biden, the allure of conspiracy theories, misleading videos and digital lies will endure. Experts say the …
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As the United States is now fully engaged in a second week of post-election controversies, two realities are increasingly clear. First, Donald Trump is growing increasingly unhinged in his quest to retain his grip on power. Second, only conservative media can prevent vast segments of the GOP base …
Read MoreMinutes 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 …
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