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Claim: Author Kurt Vonnegut once said: “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” For years, internet users have shared a quote about society refusing to save itself due to the perceived costs of doing so, attributing the saying to …
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It’s 8am, and Redmond, an 11-year-old Brown Swiss dairy cow and designated matriarch of the Churchtown Dairy herd, has been milked in her designated stall. She is concentrating on munching hay; her seventh calf is hovering nearby.The herd’s production of milk, sold unpasteurised in half-gallon and …
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Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the lead-up to Donald Trump’s second inauguration, professional conspiracy peddlers are hard at work finding ways to gin up panic and paranoia—even if their …
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If you spend much time watching Fox News, or if you look to social media sites such as X for information about American politics and the U.S. government, you have probably heard two specific claims over the past four years. First, that the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was fomented at least …
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If there were a new wave of Covid-19, how many people would get vaccinated? In Kenya, by late July 2022, around 8.8 million adults had been fully vaccinated against the virus. Today, it would be a miracle if even 50 per cent of that number voluntarily got vaccinated in the face of another pandemic. …
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SALT LAKE CITY — Call us curious, call us skeptics, call us cynics. In the end, maybe Utahns are just super interested in the truth or, perhaps, a truth.That’s probably why Utah was just named one of the most conspiracy-obsessed states in the entire country. (If you can believe it.)With interest in …
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A US bankruptcy judge stopped parody news site the Onion from buying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars website, ruling that a bankruptcy auction did not result in the best possible bids.However, the judge, Christopher Lopez, on Tuesday rejected Jones’s claims that the auction was plagued by …
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A bankruptcy judge on Tuesday rejected a bid by The Onion’s parent company to buy Alex Jones’ far-right media empire, including the website Infowars, ruling that the auction process was unfair. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez said after a two-day hearing that The Onion’s parent company, …
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The transformation of Tulsi Gabbard from former Democratic congresswoman and presidential candidate to Donald Trump supporter has confounded many.But statements in the past month from Mikki Willis, an infamous conspiracy filmmaker who claims to have been a close friend of Gabbard for over a decade, …
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By SAM MERRIMAN, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT Published: 19:03 EST, 8 December 2024 | Updated: 19:47 EST, 8 December 2024 Conspiracy theories and extreme misogyny are in danger of becoming mainstream in the UK, a report from the Government’s former counter-extremism tsar warns.Extremist narratives …
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