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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
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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
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To Donald Trump, it’s “people who love our country”. To the FBI, it’s a potential domestic terror threat. And to you or anyone else who has logged on to Facebook in recent months, it may just be a friend or
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Russian government-supported organisations are playing a small but increasing role amplifying conspiracy theories promoted by QAnon, raising concerns of interference in the November US election. Academics who study QAnon said there were no signs Russia had a hand in the
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Updates on Trump’s top-secret Plan against the cabal are, for some reason, provided to the faithful via cryptic communiques on fringy Internet message boards, posted by the eponymous Q, who purports to be a highly-placed Trump administration insider. There’s plenty
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Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Staying on the topic of misinformation, there’s news about QAnon. That’s a movement based on a bizarre conspiracy theory that claims that all manner of public figures and institutions
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The QAnon surge, coincidentally or not, came hours before a Republican National Convention that — avoided by most GOP stalwarts, including its surviving ex-president — is desperately seeking to make a public case for a Trump second term. But in
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NPR’s Michel Martin speaks to Travis View, co-host of the “QAnon Anonymous” podcast, about President Trump’s recent acknowledgment of QAnon and the fringe movement’s advance into mainstream politics. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Staying on the topic of misinformation, there’s news about
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White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Sunday dodged questions about President Donald Trump’s embrace of QAnon days after the president said followers of the conspiracy theory “love our country.” “We don’t even know what it is,” Meadows told
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By Laurence Arnold | Bloomberg, Supporters of a U.S. conspiracy theory known as QAnon have been a feature on the fringes of American politics since late 2017. The internet-fueled movement has crept closer to the mainstream more recently, with some
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