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Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus joined an effort to expel Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the U.S. House after the discovery of a series of controversial social media posts, including ones where she said the Oct. 1 shooting in Las Vegas was staged and liked comments calling …
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This was the week that the stock market became the stonks market. For those of you unaware, “stonks” is an internet meme, an absurdist play on the word “stock” that’s now almost unavoidable on social media. On Jan. 26, Elon Musk, recently the world’s richest man, tweeted “Gamestonk!!”, and received …
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kevin roose In the days leading up to Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, as my colleagues in Washington were getting ready to go cover the inauguration, I was checking in with the followers of QAnon. archived recording (qanon believer 1) Boom, what’s up, guys? Welcome to another show. We’re …
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It didn’t take long for the neo-Nazis to show up. Minutes after Joe Biden’s inauguration, as followers of QAnon were trying to understand how their predictions of Trump remaining in power had not come to fruition, white nationalists saw a slate of potential recruits. “Don’t let this moment slip by. …
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The theories seem crazy to Ms. Perron now, but looking back, she understands how they drew her in. They were comforting, a way to get her bearings in a chaotic world that felt increasingly unequal and rigged against middle-class people like her. These stories offered agency: Evil cabals could be …
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Ceally Smith spent a year down the rabbit hole of QAnon, devoting more and more time to researching and discussing the conspiracy theory online. Eventually it consumed her, and she wanted out. She broke up with the boyfriend who recruited her into the movement, took six months …
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‘Washington Post’ reporter Craig Timberg suggests some in the QAnon movement will become even more extreme now that Trump, their “messiah,” has left office. “There is a real danger that what we’ll see is a somewhat smaller but maybe more fervent and maybe more hateful and maybe more stealthy …
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This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. In Washington, there’s a pretty set playbook for when politicians or their aides find themselves with an onslaught of negative headlines filling the inbox …
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A QAnon supporter attends the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., after which supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images A QAnon supporter attends the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” …
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Two years before she was elected to Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene hopped on Facebook to respond to a comment falsely claiming that the Parkland, Fla., school shooting was staged, according to screenshots posted by Media Matters for America, a liberal media watchdog group. Instead of rejecting …
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