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Within minutes of President Trump’s shocking announcement that he tested positive for COVID-19, speculation and conjecture swarming social media platforms gave way to a flood of outright falsehoods, an unprecedented challenge to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others already struggling to
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The misinformation age quickly enveloped the news that President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, had tested positive for COVID-19, as conspiracy theories about the news flourished on social media. Followers of the extremist conspiracy group QAnon, who have concocted
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President Trump and the First Lady testing positive for COVID-19 has not slowed the anti-mask movement on Facebook. Despite growing evidence that face masks prevent the spread of the virus, dozens of public and private groups with hundreds, even thousands,
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Hijacking #SaveTheChildren on social media is exposing unsuspecting Americans to QAnon ideology. Crimes against kids are foundational to many conspiracy theories as they’re universally horrifying. Viral spread of QAnon groups trigger a crackdown over the summer on Facebook, Instagram and
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The claim: Fauci was arrested for COVID-19 conspiracy, as reported by USA TODAY A post on Facebook, seemingly tied to QAnon conspiracy theories, claims that Dr. Anthony Fauci was arrested for conspiracy. “BOOM! BOOM!” the post reads, accompanied by a
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WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health said on Monday that a public relations staffer who had been using a pseudonym on a conservative website to attack Dr. Anthony Fauci, who runs the agency, and discount the seriousness of the coronavirus will retire. The Daily Beast
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MILWAUKEE – Gaige Grosskreutz wasn’t even out of the hospital when his phone started blowing up. Shot point blank in the arm with an AR-15, he was the only person to survive a triple shooting at a protest condemning the
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From Facebook to Twitter to YouTube, social media companies whose platforms were used to amplify falsehoods, conspiracy theories and inflammatory rhetoric in 2016 have been preparing for November’s presidential election for years. Now it’s crunch time. On Thursday, FBI Director Christopher
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An emboldened community of believers known as QAnon is spreading a baseless patchwork of conspiracy theories that are fooling Americans who are looking for simple answers in a time of intense political polarization, social isolation and economic turmoil. Experts call QAnon a
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An emboldened community of believers known as QAnon is spreading a baseless patchwork of conspiracy theories that are fooling Americans who are looking for simple answers in a time of intense political polarization, social isolation and economic turmoil. Experts call QAnon a
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