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A law firm representing the UK owners of Mercedes-Benz cars has started formal legal action seeking compensation from the German carmaker for allegedly installing illegal emissions cheating devices on its diesel vehicles. Hagens Berman UK, an offshoot of a US law firm, filed particulars of the …
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The mysterious individual behind a new and rapidly growing online disinformation network targeting followers of QAnon, the far-right cult, can be revealed as a Berlin-based artist with a history of social media manipulation, a prominent anti-racism group claims. Since Donald Trump left the White …
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In the early hours of New Year’s Eve, former Liberal MP Craig Kelly logged on to Facebook to make one of his regular contributions to the global network of misinformation about Covid-19 – this time, to promote the antiparasitic drug ivermectin as a treatment for the virus. The content of the post …
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Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory are “gentle people waving American flags”, Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed on Friday night – two months since many joined a mob that stormed the US Capitol seeking to overturn Donald Trump’s election defeat, a riot in which five people died. “Do you …
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In August last year, Matt Lawson, a Melbourne-based conspiracy theorist and anti-5G activist linked to the group that helped organise the city’s anti-lockdown protests last year, held one of his regular YouTube gabfests. The guests were mostly the usual crowd. The former celebrity chef Pete Evans …
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Posts by the controversial Liberal MP for Hughes, Craig Kelly have been disappearing from his Facebook timeline almost as fast as the prolific Facebook correspondent has been posting. Kelly denies vehemently that he has been deleting them, but monitoring by some of his constituents who are members …
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Sign up for the Guardian Today US newsletter A Wisconsin pharmacist convinced the world was “crashing down” told police he tried to ruin hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine, because he believed the shots would mutate people’s DNA, according to court documents released on Monday. Police in …
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At the beginning of 2021, millions of Americans appear to disagree about one of the most basic facts of their democracy: that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. The consequences of Donald Trump’s repeated, baseless claims of voter fraud will come in several waves, researchers who study …
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Paranoid delusions enter the mainstream when the mainstream opens the gates and welcomes them in. Sometimes the gatekeepers have Boris Johnson’s smirk or Donald Trump’s leer on their lips: the smiles of nihilists who will exploit any lie if it furthers their interests. More often, the gatekeepers …
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Sign up for the Guardian’s First Thing newsletter In November, Donald Trump became the first president in American history to try to hold on to power that voters had given to someone else in the course of a national election. The plot did not unfold in one dramatic scene. Instead, Trump lured …
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