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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,
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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
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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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