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Think before you click. People who get their news from social-media platforms like Facebook FB, +1.80% and Twitter TWTR, +4.94% are more likely to have misperceptions about COVID-19, according to new study led by researchers at McGill University in Montreal. “Those that consume more traditional …
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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money‘s newsletter. You can sign up here. Graeme Jennings/Getty Images Graeme Jennings/Getty Images Last week, the titans of tech Zoomed into a congressional hearing for a flogging through their computer screens. Members of the House Subcommittee on …
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Celebrity sells – it always has. But in the digital age, the boundaries of celebrity have changed. Once it was the prerogative of movie, sports or music stars to front a fashion label or promote perfume. But nowadays the marketplace is saturated with any number of online lifestyle and wellness …
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Ascanni / AlamyIs covid-19 caused by the 5G phone network, or the product of a secret Chinese bioweapons program? No. There is no evidence that either of these claims are true, but to some people that very lack of evidence is itself clear evidence of a cover up. Welcome to the paranoid, topsy-turvy …
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Conspiracy theories are everywhere — and in the age of social media, they’re hard to escape. But why do they flourish so easily, even when we have so much information at our fingertips? According to Pulling The Thread, a new digital series on WORLD Channel, our brains have a lot to do with it. “The …
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Conspiracy theories are everywhere — and in the age of social media, they’re hard to escape. But why do they flourish so easily, even when we have so much information at our fingertips? According to Pulling The Thread, a new digital series on WORLD Channel, our brains have a lot to do with it. “The …
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Executive Summary While it’s easy to dismiss those who believe in conspiracy theories as a minority fringe, recent research shows that certain conditions can make anyone more susceptible: specifically, feeling a lack of control makes people much more likely to believe in these theories. Luckily, …
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While it’s easy to dismiss those who believe in conspiracy theories as a minority fringe, recent research shows that certain conditions can make anyone more susceptible: specifically, feeling a lack of control makes people much more likely to believe in these theories. Luckily, it’s possible to …
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Claim: Tom Hanks was arrested for “pedophilia” in Australia, and fitted with an ankle bracelet to monitor his movements. In March 2020, actor Tom Hanks was in Queensland, Australia, for the filming of a biopic about singer Elvis Presley, when he and his wife Rita Wilson went to a hospital “after …
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A new study has found that men are more likely than women to endorse coronavirus (COVID-19) related conspiracy theories. The study, published in early July in Politics and Gender, builds upon research from earlier this year that revealed Republicans were more likely than Democrats to believe …
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