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This website, August 21, 2019: We at Nieman Lab have gotten the question from readers several times: What exactly is The Epoch Times? It publishes in more than 20 languages, including Slovak, Hebrew, and Ukrainian; it’s attached (or not attached?) to the Falun Gong movement and banned in China; it …
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To understand why conspiracy theories receive such strong support from groups of people across the world, we are joined by the hosts of the “Psychology After Dark” podcast. According to a poll taken earlier this year, 1-in-8 Australians believe that Bill Gates and 5G are responsible for COVID-19. …
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Increasingly, friends, colleagues and readers share the same story with me: Online, somebody they know and love has stumbled into the treacherous world of online conspiracy theories and, in some cases, might not even know it. I’m often asked: How do you talk to people you care about who might be on …
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The threat of disinformation is a real one. A week after elections, in which conspiracies played a bigger role than ever before, Bruce Munro talks to Chief Censor David Shanks, and others, about how best to tackle it without turning New Zealand into a police state. Stephen Davis is concerned about …
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I was feeling self-harmful the other day, so I opted for a bit of Facebook doomscrolling, and I was severely disappointed at the number of people I saw posting or sharing posts about some truly nutty conspiracy theories. Sure, I kind of expect that dude who claims we were in fourth grade together …
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Joe Loffreno has worked at the wild, craggy Eastern tip of Long Island now called Camp Hero State Park for 18 years. He knows the spooky, abandoned military base — which supposedly inspired the Netflix series “Stranger Things” — better than most. “It’s a place that’s dominated my life and my …
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Published October 24. 2020 08:01AM Some say America was never a great country. They obviously have never read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These are the reasons America IS a great country. Ideologies such as Marxism and socialism are contrary to the …
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Banff-Kananaskis MLA Miranda Rosin on Tuesday reassured a constituent that the provincial government would never create COVID-19 “concentration camps” — but added that if the “rumours” were true, it would involve the federal government. In doing so, Rosin helped to spread a misinformation campaign …
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Some of the same people who pushed a false conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton that first emerged in 2016 are now targeting Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, with similar falsehoods. Their online posts are garnering astronomical numbers of shares on social media. The fantastical rumors, which NBC …
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