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President Donald Trump, his son and top members of his campaign on Wednesday advanced a set of conspiracy theories about the vote-tallying process to claim that Democrats were rigging the final count. Eric Trump tweeted a video, first pushed by an account associated with the far-right QAnon …
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Trump’s son and others, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, claimed falsely in tweets later hidden by warning labels that the president had won Pennsylvania — even though no such determination had been made. And the campaign’s spokesman, Tim Murtaugh, claimed without evidence …
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Trump’s son and others, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, claimed falsely in tweets later hidden by warning labels that the president had won Pennsylvania — even though no such determination had been made. And the campaign’s spokesman, Tim Murtaugh, claimed without evidence …
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With hundreds of thousands of votes left to count and high-profile races undecided, some Arizona leaders, national pundits and social media provocateurs have already started spreading conspiracies to undermine faith in election results. One national conservative group is planning a rally outside …
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How should tech firms combat conspiracy theories and remove dangerously misleading content. It has proven to be a daunting challenge during the 2020 election. A team of researchers at Google’s Jigsaw worked last year with ethnographers at the consulting company ReD to take on that question after a …
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During the 2016 US election campaign, a conspiracy theory known as #Pizzagate went viral on rightwing websites. The theory, which claimed that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was involved in a child sex ring run from a Washington pizza restaurant, seemed laughable. Until a …
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Kourtney Kardashian was condemned by social media users for spreading a false conspiracy theory about face masks. Kardashian shared a post on her Instagram Story claiming that blue surgical masks cause cancer—a conspiracy theory debunked by medical experts. “There is no evidence to support the …
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By Express News Service HYDERABAD: Continuing his attack on the BJP, Finance Minister T Harish Rao, on Tuesday, slammed the saffron party leaders stating that it had been resorting to Goebbel’s propaganda throughout the Dubbaka election campaign by spreading lies, conspiracies, enticements, and …
Read MoreA conspiracy theory falsely claims that using a “Sharpie” marker to fill out ballots in Arizona caused votes for President Donald Trump to be invalidated. “Sharpies are just fine to use,” Megan Gilbertson, communications director for the Maricopa County Elections Department, told Reuters. “They do …
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Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor. Photo: Paramount Pictures In his essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” historian Richard Hofstadter identified a “sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy” that served as a recurring pattern in American history …
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