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Jemima Kelly is wrong to dismiss misinformation regarding Covid as a “spat” concerning “critical views”. (“Spotify spat shows why Rogan and his podcast matter”, Notebook, February 3). A consistent pattern of misinformation during a pandemic is, as others have noted,
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Few fringe movements have captured the imagination of podcast-makers as much as QAnon, the online gathering of conspiracy theorists that has inched dangerously towards the mainstream. Following a glut of series in both the US and UK, the BBC has
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There’s a 13-year-old boy whose antivax father — an intelligent, accomplished man in his early fifties — died last month of Covid-19. Go to the father’s Twitter feed and it’s the usual story: he warns followers that governments have “radicalised”, that
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When I visited Athens over the holidays in 2020, I felt as if I were in a dictatorship, with strict evening curfews and mandatory text messages to be sent to a government agency before I could venture outdoors. In the
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There was no text on ‘drop’ 4953, posted around a month after the previous message, just a link to a music YouTube video. For a movement ignited by lengthy and byzantine clues, the final Q message, released exactly a year
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Is there a juicier topic for an apocalyptic documentary than QAnon, the online gathering of crackpots and conspiracy theorists that, after the election of Donald Trump, swelled and spilled into the real world? Certainly, we have not been short of
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German car parts supplier Continental has parted company with its chief financial officer with immediate effect after becoming aware of “shortcomings” in an internal investigation relating to the 2015 diesel emissions scandal. Wolfgang Schäfer, who had been in his role
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Arts updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Arts news. The day after the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, satirical media outlet The Onion was faced with a problem. That year
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Arts updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Arts news. In Finding Q, British journalist Nicky Woolf sits in a car outside a California apartment block hoping to glimpse a man he suspects
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