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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — YouTube is following the lead of Twitter and Facebook, saying that it is taking more steps to limit QAnon and other baseless conspiracy theories that can lead to real-world violence. The Google-owned video platform said Thursday it will now prohibit material targeting a …
Read MorePresident Donald Trump repeatedly alternated between claiming he didn’t know what the QAnon conspiracy movement was and expressing support for it during an NBC town hall Thursday. “I know nothing about QAnon,” Trump said when the moderator Savannah Guthrie reminded him about the conspiracy theory’s …
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Greene’s Democratic opponent in the deep-red northwest Georgia district has dropped out, and Republican leaders in the House now say they intend to seat her on committees when she comes to Washington next year. In an event Thursday morning in Dallas, Ga., Greene praised Loeffler for her pro-gun …
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By Meagan Flynn, Parker Michels-Boyce For The Washington Post Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) speaks with reporters during the GOP convention at Tree of Life Ministries in Lynchburg, Va., on June 13. Outgoing Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) is condemning President Trump’s amplification of a false …
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YouTube will ban videos that promote QAnon and other conspiracy theories, but only if they target specific people or groups, seeking to crackdown on potentially dangerous misinformation after criticism the service helped these fringe movements expand. The decision comes a week after Facebook Inc. …
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A Republican congressional candidate and high-profile ally in Donald Trump’s fight to win over Black voters has admitted to believing a baseless QAnon-related conspiracy theory that the online furniture retailer Wayfair is secretly selling trafficked children over the internet as part of a …
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks during the opening keynote address at the Google I/O 2017 Conference at Shoreline Amphitheater on May 17, 2017 in Mountain View, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google‘s YouTube is updating its hate speech policy to ban videos that target individuals or …
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Parker Neff was scrolling through conservative posts on Facebook when he saw an unfamiliar hashtag: #WWG1WGA. Recently retired after serving as a Southern Baptist pastor for more than 20 years, his time was free and curiosity piqued. “I started looking into it online,” Neff said. “Doing some …
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Updated Thursday at 10:38 a.m. Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia enthusiastically accepted an endorsement Thursday from Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congressional candidate who embraced QAnon conspiracy theories and espoused racist views in a series of online videos. Loeffler and Greene made …
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Joe Biden won the nomination for president on the shoulders of older Black voters in the US south. But how do younger, progressive people of color feel about his candidacy in the southern state of Georgia, in play for the first time in decades? And will a dangerous campaign of Qanon disinformation …
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