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Harrison Hawkins has experienced firsthand the insidious spread of QAnon.In early April, he fell in love with a college student he met on a dating app. She was spiritual and intelligent. She liked to meditate and take hikes. But within months, she began to express anxiety. His phone filled up with …
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Over 1,000 Iowans have now died from COVID-19 infections, and by Election Day we are on track to have 250,000 American deaths, now the third-leading cause of death, in just five months. Every day, front-line health care workers put their lives at risk to care for these victims of this pandemic. …
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You probably heard about QAnon this week. When a reporter asked Donald Trump about it; the president said, “I don’t know much about the movement, other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate” and called them “people that love our country.” When asked about “this belief that …
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Social media companies Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc have announced crackdowns on content linked with the unfounded and sprawling conspiracy theory QAnon. What is QAnon? QAnon followers espouse an intertwined series of beliefs, based on anonymous web postings from “Q,” who claims to have insider …
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As I’ve watched the Republican National Convention, all I could think was: Where is Q? And which of the people on my television screen is a Patriot? Q, for those who aren’t watching the political fringes, is the man, woman or perhaps group of people whose cryptic internet messages helped create the …
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QAnon is a far-ranging conspiracy theory that alleges, among other things, that a patriotic Trump supporter (or supporters) embedded in the highest levels of the U.S. government has been using internet forums to send coded messages to the American public about a secret plan to arrest and/or execute …
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As I’ve watched the Republican National Convention these last two nights, all I could think was: Where is Q? And which of the people on my television screen is a Patriot? Q, for those who don’t follow the political fringe, is the man, woman or perhaps group of people whose cryptic internet messages …
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QAnon, a debunked, right-wing conspiracy theory once on the political fringes, has seeped into the political landscape and into this week’s Republican National Convention. The same day a bipartisan pair of lawmakers introduced legislation condemning the conspiracy theory, a speaker was removed …
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Comment on this story Comment Gift Article During the school year, I publish lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy Project, which aims to teach students how to distinguish fact from fiction in the age of digital communication and a president who routinely denounces real news as “fake.” The …
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Earlier this year, I published a lesson for teachers from the Sift to use in class to explore with students the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that President Trump will save the world from a “deep state” cult of pedophiles who eat children, worship the devil and run the country’s most …
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