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By Joseph Menn 4 Min Read (Reuters) – Russian government-backed social media accounts nurtured the QAnon conspiracy theory in its infancy, earlier than previously reported, according to interviews with current and former Twitter executives and archives of tweets from suspended
Read MorePresident Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka tweeted a video made by a popular QAnon-supporting Twitter personality. The Trump campaign also played the clip at a rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, according to tweets with footage from the event. The video’s
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Share This Article: John Sepulvado, a source for comment on the Facebook takedown of the Defend East County group, has been accused of posting videos used in that effort. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Facebook’s Halloween shutdown of the 22,000-member Defend
Read MoreA new super PAC run by operatives in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s orbit and funded by her lawyer is running ads for four like-minded House Republican candidates during the final days of the 2020 campaign. The Stop Socialism Now PAC is
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Conspiracy theories that centre on fears about child abuse and removal are being shared in Australia, as part of a broader trend of misinformation related to children. In addition to the gamut of #baking shots, pet pics and lockdown selfies,
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It isn’t yet light when Alexander Tschugguel and his cameraman sneak into Rome’s Santa Maria in Traspontina Church to steal the statues. A lone elderly parishioner sits in the pews as Tschugguel—a young Austrian convert to Catholicism, so neatly dressed he
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Washington (CNN) – In November 2017, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a small business owner in the suburbs of Atlanta, uploaded a nearly half-hour long video to Facebook outlining the elements of a new conspiracy theory known as QAnon, which casts President
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2017. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD Facebook announced Friday it is temporarily stopping recommendations of new groups to users ahead of Tuesday’s election. The announcement came a day after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was concerned about the
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Congressman Scott Perry, R-10th District, answers a question at a Hummelstown public meeting with constituents on July 30th, 2019. (Capital-Star photo by Stephen Caruso) In his second straight tight race for reelection, U.S. Rep. Scott Perry took $1,000 from a
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Last week, US officials determined that a threatening letter sent to a voter from a fake Proud Boys email address was the work of the Iranian government, adding more emphasis to US intelligence reports that countries like Iran and Russia
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