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Former Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn will face trial in Germany on charges of market manipulation in the run-up to the diesel emissions scandal, after a court near the carmaker’s headquarters agreed to hear the case in full. The 73-year-old —
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A director in Citigroup’s information technology department has been placed on leave after he was identified as the operator of a prominent website dedicated to the QAnon conspiracy theory. Last week, fact-checking website logically.ai named Jason Gelinas, a New Jersey
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Scandals such as “Dieselgate” could no longer pass undetected at Volkswagen due to the strengthening of compliance and complaints procedures under the guidance of a US court-appointed monitor, the German carmaker said on Monday. “A company the size of Volkswagen,
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The online phenomenon known as QAnon is evolving beyond its pro-Trump roots and spreading rapidly into new global communities, despite efforts by social media platforms to stamp out the world’s most persistent conspiracy theory. Cryptic posts by the group or
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Greer McVay insists she is “not an anti-vaxxer — not at all”. She is up to date with her own immunisations and had her son vaccinated when he was a child. But she fears the development of a vaccine for
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Twitter and TikTok both took action against the internet’s most persistent conspiracy theory this week, but experts suggested it may be too little and too late to halt the phenomenon known as QAnon. Since October 2017, the anonymous individual or
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Freemasons, Norwegian salmon and even Bill Gates have been blamed for an upsurge in coronavirus cases in Beijing as nationalistic conspiracy theories are allowed to flourish in Chinese cyber space. Some of the wild speculation has been deleted from the
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The conviction that pointy-headed intellectuals in the US national security establishment are covertly imposing their worldview on American foreign policy hardly originated with the Trump White House. Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade in the 1950s was largely premised on the same
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At about 9.30pm on Easter Monday, in the small Dutch town of Almere near Amsterdam, the fire brigade was called to put out a blaze at a large telecoms mast — the second fire of its kind that night in
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Every pandemic generates conspiracy theories. Depending on which one you believe, the coronavirus is a bioweapon created by China, or Big Pharma, or American scientists, or it’s caused by 5G technology, or it doesn’t exist, just a “hoax” made up by Donald
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