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By Toluse Olorunnipa and Isaac Stanley-Becker, President Trump has increasingly embraced, amplified or equivocated about a number of conspiracy theories in recent weeks, adding to the sense of chaos and uncertainty caused by a pandemic and social unrest. From the baseless QAnon movement to a racist …
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While the speed and reach of these theories is new thanks to social media, we have been here before. Indeed, the United States has a long history of conspiratorial thinking — from obsessions with the Masons and the Illuminati in the 19th century to the recent tea party movement and the birtherism …
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It was the weekend after the Super Tuesday primaries in March, and we were arguing about Bernie. “You wouldn’t support him if you knew the truth,” he said gravely, both of us stumbling home late from the dance club where we first met four months earlier after chatting on a dating app. “There’s some …
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There was good reason to include QAnon. Two months prior, a man allegedly influenced by the conspiracy theory shot and killed a suspected Mafia boss on Staten Island. When he appeared in court for an extradition hearing, he held up the palm of his hand, on which he’d scrawled a Q — a reference to …
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By Isaac Stanley-Becker, Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post QAnon supporters wait for a military flyover at the World War II Memorial during Fourth of July celebrations in Washington. This story was featured in Drop Me The Link, our one-story election newsletter. Sign up to get it in your …
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But he’s also back to promoting blatant falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the virus. In his briefing Tuesday, he … Incorrectly said the country’s coronavirus outbreak was in just a few states and nowhere else. “We’re seeing improvements across the major metro areas and most hot spots. You …
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He’s a 36-year-old research coordinator for the department of biostatistics, epidemiology and informatics at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine who’s made a stay-at-home hobby out of defending states’ pandemic-era restrictions and combating coronavirus misinformation on social …
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By Loveday Morris and William Glucroft, Thomas Kienzle AFP/Getty Images A poster reads “No chance for Gates, No forced vaccination” at a protest in Stuttgart, Germany. Some anti-vaccination conspiracy theories focus on billionaire Bill Gates. STUTTGART, Germany — While much of the world is aching …
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So what’s up with two congressional candidates who have embraced this relatively new conspiracy theory winning their primaries in 2020? One even has a good shot of going to Congress. In May, Jo Rae Perkins won a Republican Senate primary in Oregon after saying she supports the conspiracy theory. …
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Conjectures about 5G’s effect on human health are long on panic and short on science. Paradoxically, such fears are likely to exacerbate suffering during the covid-19 crisis, because the dislocation caused by the coronavirus pandemic requires strong Internet connectivity to facilitate telework, …
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