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The director of a surprise US box office hit that has been labelled Trump-friendly and “adjacent” to dangerous conspiracy theories has called the reception the film has received “heartbreaking”.Donald Trump last month held a screening of Sound of Freedom, which tells the story of US federal agent …
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Abraham Loeb, known as Avi, is a professor of astrophysics at Harvard University and he has done the unthinkable. He has repeatedly been willing to contemplate the existence of nonhuman technology and how it may explain certain perplexing astronomical observations that mainstream science struggles …
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In my defence, it was never my intent to write about it. I did not have time. No one asked me to. And several people strongly cautioned against it. Not now – not with the literal and figurative fires roiling our planet. And certainly not about this.Other Naomi – that is how I refer to her now. This …
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Jonny Lovejet‘Jonny Lovejet in the dunes wearing a thermal radiation suit similar to that used in the steelworks. This was shot when Saharan dust clouds hit the UK giving the sky this wild orangeade pink.’ In the book, Lewis writes about his own first encounter with a UFO: ‘Late summer, 1988. A …
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The biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, a contender for the Republican presidential nomination, was condemned for conspiracy-tinged remarks about the events of 9/11 and the January 6 attack on the Capitol.“I think it is legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents, were on the …
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Wearing a Robert Kennedy Jr campaign T-shirt, Kevin O’Keeffe found there was standing room only as the candidate, introduced as “Bobby Kennedy”, walked on a sunbaked stage decked with hay bales to whoops and applause.“He supports freedom of speech, and he’s questioned the efficacy of the vaccine, …
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In the aftermath of the devastating wildfires in Maui, misinformation and conspiracy theories have spread online, underscoring the shortcomings of social media firms’ enforcement policies following disasters.Conspiracy theories including that the fire was started intentionally by a secret “energy …
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Teenagers are significantly more likely to believe online conspiracy theories than older generations, a new study has shown, underscoring the broad impacts of gen Z’s relationship with social media.Findings from Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-profit that fights misinformation, …
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It is the nature of conspiracy theories to turn tragedy into grist, to transform grief and human suffering into an abstract game. The latest horrifying example came out of news late July that Barack Obama’s chef Tafari Campbell had drowned in the waters off Martha’s Vineyard. What was a terrible …
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The director of child trafficking thriller Sound of Freedom has distanced himself from QAnon believers who have celebrated his film as championing their cause, saying comments made by the film’s star Jim Caviezel “hurt my work”.Alejandro Monteverde told Variety that he began writing the film in …
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