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Anthony ZurcherNorth America reporter@awzurcheron Twitter image copyrightGetty Images It’s been seven months since the 2020 US presidential election. Donald Trump may not have conceded, but he’s out of office. Joe Biden has been president for more than 100 days. The
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There have been just under 11,000 Covid-19 infections and 107 deaths in PNG, according to Johns Hopkins University’s coronavirus resource centre. Seasoned observers, though, doubt this is an accurate reflection of the crisis because of low levels of testing, infected
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In that episode, Rogan told listeners that he would not suggest the vaccine to a healthy 21-year-old. “If you’re a healthy person, and you’re exercising all the time, and you’re young, and you’re eating well…like, I don’t think you need
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Catherine grew up in a family that lived an alternative lifestyle. When social media became a big part of her life, she became a huge believer in anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. She told the BBC’s specialist disinformation reporter Marianna Spring what
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The group claims to have no party political affiliation, but several of its key figures have well-documented far-right connections. Querdenken draws in a range of supporters – not only from the far-right, but a motley crew of hippies, spiritualists and
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This means they can share topics that will intersect with people in those communities’ interests and spread a message that, for example, “you don’t need a vaccine, you can just take vitamin D,” without it being overtly flagged to someone
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US campaign group SumOfUS has reviewed dozens of social media accounts, pages and groups – and says that the tech platforms’ “policies, algorithms, and tools directly fuelled” violence. Twitter, Facebook and Google “came up massively short in preventing the escalation
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One influencer, with 55,000 subscribers, suggested there was a 150-year-old clue in the 1871 Organic Act itself. The digits of the act add up to make 17, a symbolic number for the conspiracy’s followers – with Q being the 17th
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Their hero is no longer president, but some followers of the fringe QAnon conspiracy theory have latched onto obscure, irrelevant laws in an attempt to keep the faith. It’s been six weeks since …
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In a televised address to the nation on Sunday, the president stressed that the vaccines had been declared safe by the country’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), and there was no reason to doubt their safety. “Taking the vaccines will
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