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President Trump continues to make absurd claims of widespread election fraud and to explore far-fetched schemes to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. On Thursday, we learned that he had summoned Republican legislative leaders from Michigan to the White House, raising speculation
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Conspiracy theories are brilliant. They really are. In an evil genius kind of way. They tell us so much about humanity’s incredible creative powers. We concoct debilitating and distorted social worlds and then those creations torment us, smothering us as
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Greetings, earthlings. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, and this week I come to you with lots of essential culture news and a whole lot of hammer: Our digital morass On Wednesday, the German ambassador
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In modern presidential campaigns, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about pedophilia are now almost as routine as stump speeches, poll results and televised debates. In 2016, Democrats’ imagined penchant for child predation was manifested in the made-up charge that Hillary Clinton presided
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In the hours since President Trump rocked American politics and the course of the presidential campaign by announcing he had tested positive for COVID-19, many liberals across the U.S. have grappled with the same question: When do you believe a
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In the hours after President Trump rocked American politics and the course of the presidential campaign by announcing he had tested positive for the coronavirus, many liberals across the U.S. grappled with the same question: Do you believe a serial
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Adherents of QAnon, the vast conspiracy theory that baselessly claims that a satanic cabal of high-profile liberals runs a global human trafficking operation, are used to scouring the headlines for items of news they can point to as evidence they’re
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Five weeks out from the November election, virulent disinformation from domestic and foreign sources continues to fill internet platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. The most extreme voices are being amplified and conspiracy theories and lies are outcompeting expertise
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Five weeks out from the November election, virulent disinformation from domestic and foreign sources continues to fill internet platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. The most extreme voices are being amplified and conspiracy theories and lies are outcompeting expertise
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To the editor: Thank you for publishing Virginia Heffernan’s column likening QAnon propaganda to “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a particularly vicious anti-Semitic forgery that helped form the basis of Nazi propaganda. The QAnon attacks are built upon
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