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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Emilio Ferrara, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (THE CONVERSATION) Americans who seek political insight and information on Twitter should know how much of what …
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An unexpected consequence of the COVID crisis in Germany has been the rapid increase in followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory. As Jacob Russell reports from Berlin, Germany now has the second largest following outside the United States as more people become skeptical of their government’s good …
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. In 2016, University of Miami political scientist Joseph Uscinski tried to imagine a conspiracy theorist as president, someone “sitting at the most powerful desk in the world, complete with the codes to a nuclear arsenal.” By the time Uscinski put his thoughts in writing, Donald Trump was the …
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Bots and conspiracy theorists have infested the Twitter chatter around the upcoming U.S. presidential election, USC researchers have found. Looking at more than 240 million election-related tweets, the study found that thousands of automated accounts, known as bots, had posted tweets about …
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — Conspiracy theories: they’ve been around since the founding fathers and it seems like there is a new one every day. What You Need To Know Conspiracy theories have been around for a long time This election cycle, though, the conspiracy theories are concerning, one expert says …
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Conspiracy theories have exploded online during the pandemic and in the days leading up to the election, bombarding people with false narratives intended to cause fear and disorder. CNET senior producer Dan Patterson joins CBSN’s “Red & Blue” anchor Elaine Quijano to explain some of the ways people …
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For fans of American comedian, podcaster, and actor Joe Rogan and his globally popular podcast, ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’, Tuesday, October 27, was a surprise. Episode 1,555 of ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ featured two controversial guests — conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and comedian Tim Dillon. …
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She works as a librarian at Concordia University in St. Paul, but on a recent Sunday afternoon, Wightman was on a Zoom video chat, teaching eight of her fellow congregants from Mill City Church in Minneapolis how the complicated algorithms that pull data from their internet searches and their …
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SALT LAKE COUNTY – If you think conspiracy theories only affect people on the other side of the political aisle, you need to think again. A new study shows members of both parties are falling for bad information, but why is this happening? Elvis is still alive. Bigfoot roams the forests of …
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YouTube is facing a lawsuit from a group of channel owners who say their rights were violated by the platform’s recent moderation actions against QAnon accounts. The users, many of whom boasted hundreds of thousands of followers on the platform, are seeking a temporary restraining order to restore …
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