Former SaskParty candidate says clicking ‘like’ doesn’t equate support online

October 4, 2020 5g

Archived 6 years ago from Times Colonist
Former SaskParty candidate says clicking ‘like’ doesn’t equate support online

SASKATOON — A Saskatchewan Party candidate who resigned following social media activity his party considered concerning says he didn’t step aside because he did anything wrong and that he does not support the conspiracy theory QAnon. “Reading a post, or sometimes even clicking the ‘like’ button …

From coronavirus to 5G, uncertainty breeds conspiratorial thinking. Here’s how it happens

Conspiracy

October 4, 2020 5g, nasa

Archived 6 years ago from ABC News
From coronavirus to 5G, uncertainty breeds conspiratorial thinking. Here’s how it happens

When are you being sceptical and when are you being conspiratorial? It’s not always easy to tell the difference. Conspiracy theories flourish in moments of disruption — and a pandemic, most likely caused by the seemingly random transmission of a virus from an animal to a human, can be hard to wrap …

Daryl Cooper resigns from Sask Party campaign after advancing COVID-19 conspiracies

Conspiracy

October 3, 2020 5g, covid19, qanon

Archived 6 years ago from Global News
Daryl Cooper resigns from Sask Party campaign after advancing COVID-19 conspiracies

The Saskatchewan Party’s campaign will undergo a shakeup following the resignation of one of its candidates. On Saturday, the Saskatchewan Party announced its candidate for Saskatoon Eastview, Daryl Cooper, has resigned. FULL COVERAGE: 2020 Saskatchewan Election In recent days, Cooper had come …

Conspiracy

October 3, 2020 5g, covid19, qanon

Archived 6 years ago from Global News
Daryl Cooper resigns from Sask Party campaign after advancing COVID-19 conspiracy theories

Conspiracy

October 3, 2020 5g, antivax, big tech, bill gates, chloroquine, george soros, qanon

Archived 6 years ago from The Atlantic
How an Anti-Shutdown Celebrity Is Made

My hometown—Hillsborough, New Jersey, population 38,000—is not often in the national spotlight. Throughout its history, which dates back to 1771, it has mostly been a farming town. A population boom after World War II set it on a path to becoming an idyllic American suburb, with acre plots backing …

QAnon

October 3, 2020 5g, big tech, george soros, maga, marjorie taylor greene, pizzagate

Archived 4 years ago from The Washington Post
Facebook and Twitter missed QAnon warnings for years

Comment on this story Comment Gift Article When an article on Facebook detailed a QAnon conspiracy theory about a “16-Year Plan to Destroy America,” commenters demanded death for those supposedly involved, including former president Barack Obama, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and other …

QAnon

October 2, 2020 5g, big tech, covid19, pizzagate

Archived 6 years ago from PressProgress
PressProgress

Photo credit: Daryl Cooper (Facebook) New Sask Party candidate explored possibility pandemic may have been caused by 5G technology and ‘galactic cosmic rays’ October 2, 2020 Share Tweet A candidate for Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party has deleted Facebook posts amid questions about his social media …

COVID-19

October 2, 2020 5g, bill gates, china, fauci, trump

Archived 6 years ago from The Wire
Trump Falls Victim to COVID-19 Misinformation That Study Says He Spread the Most

New Delhi: The astonishing first key finding of a study by the Ithaca, New York-based Cornell University says United States President Donald Trump was “likely the largest driver of the COVID-19 misinformation “infodemic””. The study said that not only did “Trump mentions [comprise] 37.9% of the …

COVID-19

October 2, 2020 5g, bill gates, china, chloroquine, fauci, great reset, plandemic video, trump

Archived 6 years ago from Hindustan Times
Coronavirus pandemic | Donald Trump biggest driver of Covid-19 misinformation ‘infodemic’: study

US President Donald Trump has been the world’s biggest driver of Covid-19 misinformation during the pandemic, a study from Cornell University said Thursday. A team from the Cornell Alliance for Science evaluated 38 million articles published by English-language, traditional media worldwide between …

QAnon

October 1, 2020 5g, antivax, big tech, george soros, maga, marjorie taylor greene, pizzagate

Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
As QAnon grew, Facebook and Twitter missed years of warning signs about the conspiracy’s violent nature

Others just craved speed: “TREASON = FIRING SQAUD [sic] OR HANGING! DO IT NOW PLEASE THAT’S THE LAW! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !” These posts — from January 2018, just months after QAnon flamed to life from the embers of Pizzagate, with its false claims of a child sex ring run by Democrats out of a …

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