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AMERICANS BELIEVE in a dizzying array of conspiracies. Some are relatively harmless. No one has recently attacked the Freemasons based on the bonkers belief that they sank the Titanic. But some conspiracy theories are destructive. Thousands of Americans have harmed themselves or others because they …
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AMERICA’S SPIES brief the country’s lawmakers on sober topics. In 2023 they gave classified briefings on artificial intelligence, Israel, Russian and Chinese misinformation, Sudan and Ukraine—in other words, on the biggest stories on Earth. But on January 12th, according to Axios, a news website, …
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Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories. By Mike Rothschild. Melville House; 336 pages; $32.50 and £30Brutal wildfires ravaged Maui in August, killing at least 115 people. Some conspiracy theorists claimed that the fires were caused by energy beamed from …
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If Republicans have made election integrity a core issue, this week marked something of a U-turn for the party’s state officials. On March 6th Florida, Missouri and West Virginia—all Republican states, where the party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state and …
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By Jack Shenker For @RedIssue, a Twitter account with nearly 60,000 followers dedicated to supporters of Manchester United football club, 2020 began like any other year – sardonically. “So the transfer window is now open everyone!” declared a typical post, alongside a video of Alexis Sanchez, a …
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IN “THE GREAT GATSBY”, Tom Buchanan, a boorish plutocrat, recounts what he learned from a book called “The Rise of the Coloured Empires”, by a man called “Goddard”. “It’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it,” says Buchanan. “The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be …
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Jul 27th 2021 AMERICANS WHO believe in the conspiracy theories collectively packaged as “QAnon” have grown quiet in recent months. They gained international notoriety after a large group of believers were among those who stormed the US Capitol building during a violent riot on January 6th. But the …
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Jul 17th 2021 IN EARLY MAY, with the Food and Drug Administration expected to approve the first covid-19 vaccine for teens any day, Michelle Fiscus found herself fielding questions from Tennessee vaccine dispensers on what this would mean in practice. Could 12- to 15-year-olds be vaccinated without …
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