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A viral conspriacy theory claims a dead man named William Bradley voted in Michigan. Michigan’s Department of State denied the claims, telling Insider that “on rare occasions,” voter records for a deceased person may be mixed up with those of
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Conspiracy theories have made their way into mainstream politics, with QAnon and misinformation about large-scale voter fraud among the most visible. Today we talk about a new study on misinformation and conspiracy theories around the 2020 election. We talk to
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An unidentified protester (right) interrupts a news conference about the ballot counting in Las Vegas, Nev. on Wednesday. Getty Images LONDON (Project Syndicate)—President Donald Trump, perhaps unsurprisingly, has alleged fraud in the Nov. 3 presidential election, without offering what anyone
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How should tech firms combat conspiracy theories and remove dangerously misleading content. It has proven to be a daunting challenge during the 2020 election. A team of researchers at Google’s Jigsaw worked last year with ethnographers at the consulting company ReD to take on that
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Even before Election Day, Donald Trump cast doubts on Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots. The Supreme Court’s decision permitting the state to accept absentee ballots for several days after the election, he tweeted, “is a VERY dangerous one. It will allow rampant
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As the 2020 presidential election careens to the finish line – the image of a clown car veering into a ditch comes to mind – the eyes of the nation have been focused on Pennsylvania, looking to the Keystone State for
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WASHINGTON — “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
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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
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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
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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
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