Misinformation spreads swiftly in hours after Trump rally shooting

July 14, 2024 deep state, maga, marjorie taylor greene, rfk jr, trump

Archived 2 years ago from The Washington Post
Misinformation spreads swiftly in hours after Trump rally shooting

Law enforcement officials quickly launched an investigation into the Saturday night shooting of Donald Trump as an assassination attempt, offering few details. That did not stop a torrent of unsubstantiated theories from flooding social media and other channels shortly after the event.Some accounts …

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July 14, 2024 trump

Archived 2 years ago from WION
Did Trump stage an assassination attempt, or did Democrats order the hit? Conspiracy theories suggest this

Did Donald Trump stage the Saturday (Jul 13) assassination attempt? Is he lying about being hit in the ear by a bullet? Conspiracy theories suggest so.After the attack, the Republican presidential presumptive candidate Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, and said, “I was shot …

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July 13, 2024 alex jones, cia, deep state, maga, qanon, russia, trump

Archived 2 years ago from NBC News
Conspiracy theories about the Trump rally shooting flourish online

Conspiracy theories, false claims and unsupported assertions exploded online Saturday after Donald Trump was injured in what is being investigated as an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.Wild theories about the attack, ranging from speculation about who the shooter was …

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July 12, 2024 2020 election

Archived 2 years ago from MSNBC
Democrats’ infighting over Biden becomes fuel for right-wing conspiracy theories

The tumult within the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s fitness for office and ability to win in November has become rich fodder for right-wing conspiracy theories.One running theory, as The New York Times reported Friday, is that Biden’s poor debate performance was somehow the result of …

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July 11, 2024 bill gates

Archived 2 years ago from Full Fact
Bill Gates is not making ‘maggot milk’

Bill Gates is not introducing a “maggot milk” product into the general public’s food supply, despite online claims he is. The claims, which are surfacing on Facebook and Instagram, suggest Mr Gates is launching a dairy alternative called “EntoMilk” that is derived from black soldier fly larvae. …

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July 11, 2024

Archived 2 years ago from Courier Journal
Massie shuts down conspiracy theories about his wife’s recent death

Republican Congressman Thomas Massie shut down “internet conspiracy theories” over his wife’s recent death in a social media post Tuesday, two weeks after announcing she passed.Massie said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that while he is still devastated over losing his wife, Rhonda Massie, he …

Does the Bird Flu Summit indicate that another pandemic is being orchestrated?

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July 11, 2024 alex jones, antivax, bill gates, covid19, mike lindell, rfk jr, sherri tenpenny

Archived 2 years ago from The Exposé
Does the Bird Flu Summit indicate that another pandemic is being orchestrated?

In October 2019, a tabletop exercise called Event 201 was held to simulate a coronavirus outbreak. Six months later, the World Health Organisation declared a covid pandemic. In October 2024, a Bird Flu Summit is being held to prepare for the response to a potential bird flu pandemic. As has been …

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July 10, 2024 cia

Archived 2 years ago from Conspiracy Pilled
Conspiracy Pilled – Operation Mockingbird Pt 3: The Digital Age

So far, we have covered the CIA’s infiltration of the newsroom and Hollywood, but how does Operation Mockingbird evolve to take control of information in the digital age?From direct control through the creation of social media platforms and infiltration of fact-checking organizations, to the …

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ‘Muslims’ Yelling ‘Death’ To France, Jewish People, Police, Following 2024 French Election

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July 10, 2024 israel

Archived 2 years ago from Lead Stories
Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ‘Muslims’ Yelling ‘Death’ To France, Jewish People, Police, Following 2024 French Election

Older Video Does a video show a group of protesters with Palestinian flags shouting offensive sentiments about France, Jewish people and the police after the 2024 French legislative election? No, that’s not true: The video predates the election. Additionally, what the people in the protest are …

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July 10, 2024 china, covid19, fauci

Archived 2 years ago from Reason Magazine
The media is back to deriding the lab leak as a ‘conspiracy theory’

For a brief moment, speculation that COVID-19 originated in a lab had been upgraded in the discourse from a conspiracy theory to a serious possibility worthy of serious inquiry. No longer. In an op-ed published in STAT on Tuesday, AIDS activist Peter Staley bemoans the “witch hunt” being carried …

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