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Facebook has been unable, or in some cases, unwilling to enforce its own policies prohibiting certain types of content, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The Journal reported hundreds of posts to Facebook that the
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President Donald Trump repeatedly alternated between claiming he didn’t know what the QAnon conspiracy movement was and expressing support for it during an NBC town hall Thursday. “I know nothing about QAnon,” Trump said when the moderator Savannah Guthrie reminded
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QAnon is a US-centric conspiracy theory movement, but is attracting supporters beyond its shores. Security officials in Belgium and France say that their agencies are reconsidering earlier decisions to ignore the movement, conceding that it could bring about violence in
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Researchers surveyed people in five countries to assess which coronavirus-related conspiracy theories have taken root. The most popular theory suggests the virus was “bioengineered in a laboratory in Wuhan.” Between 22% and 23% of Americans and Britons viewed that as
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki isn’t committing to an outright ban of QAnon content on the platform. Wojcicki was asked about banning QAnon, a baseless far-right conspiracy theory, during an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow. She cited the movement’s grassroots nature
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A Peloton spokesperson confirmed to Insider that the fitness brand removed tags related to the QAnon conspiracy theory. Users of the at-home workout platform can connect with users by following the same tags. A Thursday tweet from a Washington Post
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Actor Sacha Baron Cohen wrote an op-ed for Time condemning social media platforms for allowing misinformation to spread, and he singled out Facebook in particular. The “Borat” actor, who has come out hard against Facebook before, said the company is
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PayPal has shut down an account used by conspiracy theory group ‘The Mirror Project’ to fundraise almost $30,000 from supporters. YouTube says the project’s videos don’t breach its community guidelines, and they remain up on its site. The organization has
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Citigroup has fired an employee who ran a website dedicated to QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory alleging that President Donald Trump is fighting a cabal of human traffickers. Jason Gelinas, a New Jersey employee of the company, was previously put
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When the American public has questions like, “Did the president become so incapacitated by COVID that he needed medical intervention to breathe?” the expectation is that we’ll get something approximating a straight answer. But Trump is a fount of conspiracy theories,
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