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As a native of New Jersey — state motto: “Oh yeah, who says?” — I am congenitally immune to conspiracy theories. Also impervious to the imbecile insults of he-man Trumpists obsessed with the imagined sexual preferences of strangers. While there is no level of invective to which I am incapable of …
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QAnon is such a weird theory that it’s tempting to think humanity is getting dumber. But it’s better seen as a highly sophisticated way of manipulating people. QAnon may one day be considered a masterpiece of propaganda. This cult-like belief revolves around a conspiracy theory in which prominent …
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As coronavirus lockdowns descended across the world, Annie Kelly, a researcher of the digital far right based in the U.K., began joining parenting Facebook groups to study the pandemic’s effect on conspiracy thought. She watched as one group, already rife with stranger danger warnings and …
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The stories peddled by QAnon supporters today strike an all too familiar chord. Not only are many of their narratives routed in late medieval “blood libel,” but the way they manage to straddle the dichotomy between presumable fact and blatant fiction remind us of important lessons from the medieval …
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QAnon is such a weird theory that it’s tempting to think humanity is getting dumber. But it’s better seen as a highly sophisticated way of manipulating people. QAnon may one day be considered a masterpiece of propaganda. This cult-like belief revolves around a conspiracy theory in which prominent …
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The Republican Party is torn asunder. The base appears to be largely driven by conspiracy theories, especially QAnon. My research into QAnon has exposed it as essentially a Nazi cult, rebranded. Anti-Semitism, racism, child murder and secret cabals are common themes shared by Adolf Hitler and …
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The Republican Party is torn asunder. The base appears to be largely driven by conspiracy theories, especially QAnon. My research into QAnon has exposed it as essentially a Nazi cult, rebranded. Anti-Semitism, racism, child murder and secret cabals are common themes shared by Adolf Hitler and …
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Douglas, in an email, wrote that “people are attracted to conspiracy theories when important psychological needs are not being met.” She identified three such needs: “the need for knowledge and certainty”; the “existential need” to “to feel safe and secure” when “powerless and scared”; and, among …
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