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Don’t miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google.New Zealand is starting to experience a string of attacks on cellphone towers, the latest involving an apparent arson.On Wednesday, local wireless carrier One New Zealand reported that someone had deliberately set …
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5G protest in Bern, Switzerland (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) The false, superstitious belief that 5G cellular networks are somehow causing a global health crisis has found a new conspiracy theory: the idea that the global coronavirus pandemic is caused by 5G. It is not.Since I …
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Facebook has been accused of knowing that its platform enabled misinformation to reach a significant number of people, especially in the US, long before the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol led to increased scrutiny of the company’s policies. NBC News reports that …
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A week after its CEO rejected a call to crack down on COVID-19 disinformation, Reddit has decided to shut down a forum blamed for spreading vaccine falsehoods. On Wednesday, the social media platform banned the subreddit r/NoNewNormal. The online community was home to over 120,000 members and …
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We’ve all seen crazy conspiracy theories on the internet. And in the last couple of years, baseless conspiracy theories about 5G technology have skyrocketed, despite there being so many other worthwhile topics to be paranoid about. (I mean…have you heard about this Starlink thing? That’s gotta be …
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(Image: Shutterstock) Online conspiracy theories have blamed 5G for everything from cancer to coronavirus, but they tend to fall apart at the slightest tap of actual facts. Low-band and mid-band 5G are based on radio frequencies that have been used for decades. T-Mobile’s low-band 5G uses UHF TV …
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(Image: Sascha Segan) The FBI is investigating whether Anthony Quinn Warner, the presumed Nashville suicide bomber, targeted a nearby AT&T building because of paranoia over 5G-related government surveillance, according to several news reports. If so, that brings the anti-5G conspiracy nonsense to a …
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QAnon supporters in Suffolk County, New York, Oct. 4 (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) E-commerce site Etsy is removing all merchandise tied to QAnon because the pro-Trump conspiracy theory is causing potential harm. Merchants have been selling QAnon T-shirts, necklaces, and …
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This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission; the one that landed mankind on the moon for the first time, in one giant leap. It is one of humanity’s all-time great achievements. So it’s disheartening beyond words to see the results of a recent 500-person poll, in which a full …
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