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The Washington Post reported Tuesday evening that a Trump-backed Justice Department probe into the unmasking of Michael Flynn and others had quietly closed with no criminal charges or even a report to substantiate Trump’s and his allies’ allegations of a Watergate-style conspiracy. But on the same …
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By David Ignatius, President Trump’s tirades about Hillary Clinton’s emails have morphed into a Twitter campaign by supporters of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman falsely claiming that the Obama administration was plotting against him. “#HillaryEmails” was the top trending Twitter hashtag in …
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The reversal of that stance on Monday is a striking reminder of how Facebook is belatedly caving to criticism that the company has not done enough to prevent hate from spreading on its platform and has been slow to acknowledge the connections between misleading information, strategic disinformation …
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But Jacob, who grew up in the United States, told The Washington Post that he has cut all contact with his mother now that she’s become an ardent believer of the QAnon conspiracy theories. Though they long held different political beliefs, they had “a really, really strong relationship,” he said. …
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By Joel Achenbach and Laurie McGinley, Michael Reynolds EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Empty chairs — 20,000 in all — appeared on the Ellipse near the White House this month to memorialize the more than 200,000 people in the United States who have died of covid-19. In another era, what happened Wednesday …
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The material comes from the project’s newsletter, the Sift, which takes the most recent viral rumors, conspiracy theories, hoaxes and journalistic ethics issues and turns them into timely lessons with discussion prompts and links. The Sift, which is published weekly during the school year, has more …
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By Emily Rauhala, Daniel Leal-Olivas AFP/Getty Images Demonstrators protesting vaccination and government restrictions to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus clash with police officers at Trafalgar Square in London on Sept. 19. A nephew of President John F. Kennedy rallied a German crowd …
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By Emily Rauhala, Daniel Leal-Olivas AFP/Getty Images Demonstrators protesting vaccination and government restrictions to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus clash with police officers at Trafalgar Square in London on Sept. 19. A nephew of President John F. Kennedy rallied a German crowd …
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“QAnon messaging changes very quickly and we see networks of supporters build an audience with one message and then quickly pivot to another. We aim to combat this more effectively with this update that strengthens and expands our enforcement against the conspiracy theory movement,” the company …
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You would consider that odd only if you also consider it odd that people who wear seat belts are more likely to survive car accidents or that those who jump out of airplanes with parachutes are more likely to reach the ground intact than those who don’t. In fact, some prominent Democrats have …
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