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Advertisment: Claim: In early 2020, conservative commentator duo Diamond and Silk were fired from Fox News for spreading conspiracy theories about COVID-19. In early January 2023, online users searched for whether the conservative commentator duo known as Diamond and Silk
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Advertisment: Claim: In response to a question about her past as a follower of QAnon conspiracy theories, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said, “Well, like a lot of people today, I had easily gotten sucked into some things I had
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Advertisment: Claim: A “Dr. Benjamin Eidelman” gave Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot days before he collapsed during a game. A baseless conspiracy theory is making the rounds about a person supposedly named “Dr. Benjamin
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Advertisment: Claim: CDC data issued in October 2022 provide evidence that COVID-19 vaccines increase a person’s risk of death. A superficial analysis of publicly available data published by an anti-vaccine outlet named “The Exposé” went viral in December 2022. The
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Advertisment: Claim: A photograph shows a woman wearing a special “mechanical nozzle mask” during the so-called Spanish influenza pandemic. Since early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged both across the U.S. and the world, various photographs of masks worn during
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Advertisment: Claim: “Balenciaga” is Latin for “Baal is king.” Luxury fashion brand Balenciaga has been the focus of outrage and conspiracy theories due to a backlash over ads published in November 2022 showing child models holding bags shaped like teddy
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Advertisment: Claim: After repeating his claim that the results of the 2020 presidential election were “fraudulent,” U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Dec. 3, 2022: “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination
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The former president continued to push 2020 election conspiracy theories in late 2022.
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Claim: Unexplained jumps in vote totals due to large “ballot drops” led to Democratic victories in several 2022 U.S. midterm elections. Advertisment: During the 2020 presidential election, far-right conspiracy blog The Gateway Pundit aggressively pushed the notion, still championed by
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Advertisment: On Monday, Nov. 7, 2022 — the day before Election Day 2022 — the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it would be “monitor[ing] polls in 24 states for compliance with federal voting rights laws.” Despite the
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