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Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor. Photo: Paramount Pictures In his essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” historian Richard Hofstadter identified a “sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy” that served as a recurring pattern in American history …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — “So 2020” is a new phrase that made its way into America’s political lexicon this year. It has come to describe all things unexpected, unsettling and unprecedented. This includes the vitriolic political discourse that has deepened the partisan divide, the coronavirus pandemic, …
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Even though President Trump hadn’t explicitly said anything about child traffickers—or trafficking of any kind, really—the fighter was sure that’s what the story was really meant to convey. For years, at the gym where he trained, he heard horror stories about the exploitation of children. The …
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Even though President Trump hadn’t explicitly said anything about child traffickers—or trafficking of any kind, really—the fighter was sure that’s what the story was really meant to convey. For years, at the gym where he trained, he heard horror stories about the exploitation of children. The …
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Over the past few months, President Trump has repeatedly attacked the integrity of the US election by pushing a conspiracy theory that mail-in voting will lead to mass voter fraud. Never mind that mail-in ballot voter fraud rates have historically been extremely low, and Americans have voted by …
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A misleading video clip of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has been spreading on social media without any warning labels since Saturday after having been promoted by members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle. In the 24-second clip from an interview with the podcast Pod Save …
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Share this: October 29, 2020 In her latest article for Right Wing Watch, “Disinformation, Coronavirus, and the 2020 Presidential Election“, Melissa Ryan writes: In the 2016 presidential campaign, a robust disinformation effort fueled by Russia’s intelligence agencies provided a new turn in the …
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Marc-André Argentino, Amarnath Amarasingam 29 Oct 2020 The QAnon conspiracy emerged on 28 October 2017, when a user named “Q” posted what were purported to be highly classified government secrets on 4chan’s /pol/ (politically incorrect) discussion board, contributing to a thread discussing the …
Read MoreQAnon is a baseless conspiracy theory centered on the belief that a deep state of Democratic elites are running an underground child trafficking ring. The conspiracy theory is catching on with a growing number of people, from suburban moms to Republican candidates for office. At a recent town hall …
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IMAGE: USC scientists analyzed tweets from June 20 to Sept. 9, 2020, and found that right-leaning bots were responsible for 20% of the tweets on certain conspiracy theories, including QAnon, so-called… view more Credit: USC Institute for Information Sciences Bots and conspiracy theorists have …
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