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About one in five Americans mostly agree with ideas consistent with the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute. That’s an increase from one in seven since last year. One such idea, believed by 17 percent of respondents, is that the U.S. is …
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QAnon-supporting accounts were suspended from Twitter in July 2020, due to the real-world harm associated with the conspiracy theory. Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter in April, and subsequent acquisition of the platform in October, seemingly gave a green light to QAnon users to create new accounts …
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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty/YouTube In this week’s episode of political podcast Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill take a deeper look at that “shadowy character,” Juan O. Savin, and how he, along with his supporters, could destroy American democracy. As reported by The …
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One Dumb Conspiracy is a weekly column that debunks the mostly wild conspiracy theories swirling around the web and runs on Mondays in the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter. If you want to get this column a day before we publish it, subscribe to web_crawlr, where you’ll get the daily scoop of …
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QAnoners cannot leave the chemical compound adrenochrome alone. For years, harmful conspiracy theories surrounding adrenochrome circulated through the QAnon community claiming the chemical compound is harvested from tortured and murdered children to be used in Satanic rituals as a drug or youth …
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https://think-audio.s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/221031_think.mp3 QAnon is just one recent high-profile example in a long history of conspiracy theories people fall victim to. Michael Shermer is founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, host of the Science Salon podcast and a presidential fellow at …
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The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California home and severely beating her husband with a hammer appears to have made racist and often rambling posts online, including some that questioned the results of the 2020 election, defended former President Donald Trump and …
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Pinellas County School Board candidate Dawn Peters amended her response to questions about a handful of 2020 social media posts linking her to the QAnon group and conspiracy theories. In her most recent post about the topic last week, Peters said she does not question the reality of the Sept. 11 …
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Speaking to a crowd at a Holiday Inn in Clearwater, Florida, QAnon influencer Juan O. Savin described his weekly routine. “On Friday mornings, I have a call with all my candidates from around the country,” Savin told attendees of the Truth Tour 2 on Oct. 14. “Some people aren’t aware, I actually …
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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo appeared this week on a far-right podcast known for sharing QAnon-related conspiracy theories and misinformation. During a 30-minute interview with the X22 Report, Ladapo talked about his controversial recommendations against giving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to …
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