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While K-pop stans probably didn’t swing the election, their trolling is enough of a cultural force that political consultants have taken notice. The stan activism has been dominated by fans of BTS, the kings of K-pop. The seven-member boy band, also known as Bangtan Sonyeondan (“Bulletproof Boy …
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By Meagan Flynn, John McDonnell The Washington Post Outgoing Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) stands in his barrel barn, where he ages spirits from the Silverback Distillery, which he co-owns with his wife, Christine. AFTON, Va. — There was a time in Denver Riggleman’s life when he sat on the banks of …
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What started as a fringe movement among President Trump’s supporters, confined to the shadier corners of the internet, has taken a mainstream turn. The QAnon conspiracy theory started on 4chan, the bulletin board known for creating and spreading memes, but has moved to larger social media …
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REVERB is a documentary series from CBSN Originals. Watch the latest episode, “The QAnon Effect,” in the video player above. It premieres on CBSN Sunday, Nov. 29, at 8 p.m., 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. ET. John, a 30-year-old Pennsylvania man who asked us not to use his last name, has a collection of …
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Trump was enmeshed in the moment. He began a weekly gig appearing on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” in 2011, about a month after he began to gain notoriety for amplifying false claims that Obama wasn’t born in the United States. Every week, he’d riff on current events as he flirted with a 2012 …
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Twitter’s recent announcement that President Trump’s account will lose special “public interest” protections was met with mixed reactions— from “too little, too late” to “look at how biased Twitter is behaving.” For some of those who have watched @realdonaldtrump broadcast support for violence and …
Read MoreL. Lin Wood, the attorney representing Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen charged in the Kenosha shooting, appears to be a believer of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Wood’s Twitter profile includes several references to QAnon, the baseless far-right conspiracy-theory movement. The attorney has spread …
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ATLANTA — Social networks are banning them and government agencies and watchdog groups have called them domestic terrorists. But extremist groups still have a vibrant internet life thanks to online retailers. Looking for a book evangelizing the baseless and far-out QAnon conspiracy theory? Amazon …
Read MoreSince the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Germany has seen a growing anti-lockdown movement which has become one of the largest in Europe. The protesters are an eclectic mix of people, including conspiracy theorists, far-right extremists, coronavirus skeptics, and anti-vaxxers. Many of the …
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As a longtime Gazette-Times reader, I was disappointed in the lack of real journalism in James Day’s namby-pamby interview of Republican candidate Jo Rae Perkins. At least in part it seemed to be an announcement of her candidacy against U.S. Senator Ron Wyden in 2022. Oh boy. What a good journalist …
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