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Soon after a bullet grazed Donald Trump’s ear, the conspiracy theory hashtags started appearing. Social media discourse on the shooting was immediately punctuated by #staged, #fakeassassination and #stagedshooting as a familiar refrain took hold: don’t trust what they tell you.In a sign of how …
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View image in fullscreenAt a US House hearing in May, a bespectacled 65-year-old attorney made a startling claim: American citizens’ right to vote was under attack. Non-citizens, Hans von Spakovsky claimed, were voting unchecked in federal elections, and something needed to be done about it.“We …
Read MoreWould you like to watch a goofy romcom about Bill Gates conspiring to implant 5G in millions of Americans’ bodies using the Covid vaccine – but hilariously finding at the last minute he doesn’t need to because they were all getting 5G anyway on their phones? Well, in the absence of all that, how …
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A federal judge in Texas on Friday ordered the liquidation of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones′ personal assets and was still deciding on his company’s separate bankruptcy case.The decision could determine the future of his rightwing and conspiracy theory-laden Infowars media platform, as Jones …
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The publisher of 2000 Mules issued a statement Friday apologizing to a Georgia man who was shown in the film and falsely accused of ballot fraud during the 2020 election.The widely debunked film includes surveillance video showing Mark Andrews, his face blurred, putting five ballots in a drop box …
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Dozens of Donald Trump’s allies and election denialists, including extremists like lawyer Cleta Mitchell and ex-adviser Stephen Miller, are promoting a bill to bar non-citizens from voting in federal elections, even though it’s already illegal and evidence that non-citizens have voted in federal …
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Government ministers have dismissed allegations one of them pushed a conspiracy theory in campaign literature.Maria Caulfield, a health minister, spread claims about “15-minute cities” – an idea explicitly referenced in a guide on conspiracy theories prepared for MPs last week by the leader of the …
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MPs and election candidates are being provided with a guide on recognising conspiracy theories – ranging from false claims about 5G technology to others about vaccines and global organisations such as the International Monetary Fund.The guide was commissioned by Penny Mordaunt, the leader of the …
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Which conspiracy theories have been proved true? Anne Gibson, LeicesterSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com.Readers replyTrue? That’s what they want you to think. sparklesthewonderhenThe 1980s theory that there were moves afoot to institute a culture of mass surveillance in the UK, with a …
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Australia doesn’t exist. That’s at least according to Bing search results for some users on Wednesday when the Microsoft search engine cited long-running internet conspiracy theories denying the existence of the country.Several very real Australian users on Bluesky and Mastodon reported that when …
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