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What the ‘is Trump dead?’ rumours reveal about our current moment
Speculation that swirled on social media offered an insight into conspiracy theories online, liberal fantasies and the attention economy
The death of Joseph Stalin took days to become public and remains fodder for conspiracy theories. The death of Donald Trump has spawned countless tweets, TikToks and memes long before it even happens.
“How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?” asked Fox News’s Peter Doocy with tongue in cheek. “Did you see that?”
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Joe Rogan claims study shows Earth cooling – but report’s authors say he’s wrong
Scientists say ‘old-school denier nonsense’ isn’t helpful as podcaster repeatedly airs false claim on his show
For months now, the popular comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan has been telling his vast audience of a study that shows Earth is cooling – even though this research states the complete opposite.
Rogan’s false claim about the climate crisis, which he has repeatedly aired on the Joe Rogan Experience, one of the world’s most popular podcasts, has exasperated the scientists who authored the research.
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Debunking climate misinformation is becoming a full-time job – but you can help defend the facts | Jonathan Watts
The political pushback against positive green progress has been shocking. But as corporations and those in power turn away, the overwhelming majority of people in the world want more ambitious climate action
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Extreme politics and extreme weather go hand in hand, and both have to be confronted if we are to understand and overcome the polycrisis we are living through.
Yet few media organisations are examining why the climate emergency is creating a new era of demagogues. Even fewer are scrutinising how those authoritarian leaders are trying to misdirect public attention away from the root cause of our current global malaise.
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Father of CDC shooter says son believed Covid vaccine had sickened him
Ken White said his son Patrick, who killed a police officer at CDC HQ in Atlanta, had untreated mental illness
The father of the man who opened fire outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta earlier in August has said that his son was grappling with untreated mental health issues when misinformation convinced him that the Covid-19 vaccine was lethally sickening him.
“I know my son wanted to make this about ‘the jab’, and that was his latest cause, but this is more about mental health than anything,” Ken White said in a new interview with Atlanta News First.
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Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation
Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research
A new Trump administration report which attempts to justify a mass rollback of environmental regulations is chock-full of climate misinformation, experts say.
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to undo the 2009 “endangerment finding”, which allows the agency to limit planet-heating pollution from cars and trucks, power plants and other industrial sources. Hours later, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a 150-page report defending the proposal, claiming scientific concern about the climate crisis is overblown.
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Conspiracy theories have leached into public life. Is it scepticism towards power or a complete worldview?
Ideas that were once fringe are increasingly part of Australian public life. Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson say they may not be about a singular event, but an overarching interpretation of how the world works
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On the edge of George Street in Sydney, a woman is wrapped in an upside-down Australian flag. She holds one side of a large banner that reads “GROOM DOGS NOT KIDS”, showing pictures of poodles with ears dyed rainbow and pink.
There are young people, people in their 60s and 70s, parents with children in prams. There are T-shirts imploring you to “think while it’s still legal”. Another person holds a sign declaring their staunch opposition to a town planning initiative that has been erroneously linked to the rollout of a new surveillance regime, “Aussies SAY NO to 15 minute cities. FREEDOM.”
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The Macrons v Candace Owens: lawsuit marks new phase in battle against conspiracy theories
False claim that Brigitte Macron was born a man has roots in pandemic-era France as distrust of politicians peaked
When the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte, took the rare step this week of filing a US defamation lawsuit against the rightwing podcaster Candace Owens, it marked a new phase in a legal battle on both sides of the Atlantic against the false claim that Brigitte Macron is a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux.
The Macrons’ US lawsuit attacked what it called the “verifiably false and devastating lies” being repeated online by Owens that Brigitte Macron, 72, was born a man. The lawsuit said evidence clearly disproved this “grotesque narrative”, which had become “a campaign of global humiliation” and “relentless bullying on a worldwide scale”.
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RFK Jr to remove preservative thimerosal from all US vaccines
Anti-vaccine campaigns have targeted thimerosal for decades despite no evidence of ingredient causing harm
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, will formally require vaccine makers to remove thimerosal from vaccines.
The ingredient has been the target of anti-vaccine campaigns and misinformation for decades. Arguments against the preservative culminated in June, when a key federal vaccine advisory panel, remade with Kennedy’s ideological allies, recommended against the preservative.
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