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What started as a fringe movement among President Trump’s supporters, confined to the shadier corners of the internet, has taken a mainstream turn. The QAnon conspiracy theory started on 4chan, the bulletin board known for creating and spreading memes, but has moved to larger social media …
Read MoreA new study of YouTube’s recommendation algorithms shows the filter bubble is in full effect. A user’s history watching misinformation about key conspiracy theories results in more videos being pumped toward them. But one exception is lies about vaccines. “YouTube might be reacting differently to …
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Eleanor’s dad loved science — or so she thought. Eleanor grew up listening to stories of the Apollo missions and audio clips from space expeditions. Every weekend, the two of them hopped on a train to downtown Philadelphia to visit the Franklin Institute, where they would explore the planetarium, …
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Topline Republican candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene won her House race in Georgia on Tuesday, the Associated Press projects, giving Congress its first member who has openly supported the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon. Georgia Republican House candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene has been the cause …
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Topline Marjorie Taylor Greene is guaranteed to become the first member of Congress who has openly supported the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon when the dust settles in Georgia, as her only opponent dropped out just 31 days into the race. DALLAS, GA – OCTOBER 15: Georgia Republican House …
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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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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — Conspiracy theories: they’ve been around since the founding fathers and it seems like there is a new one every day. What You Need To Know Conspiracy theories have been around for a long time This election cycle, though, the conspiracy theories are concerning, one expert says …
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Modern flat Earth societies From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search “Flat Earth Society” redirects here. For other uses, see Flat Earth Society (disambiguation). Modern-day groups that claim the Earth is flat Projections of the sphere like this one have been co-opted …
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Here’s a scenario you may have found yourself in recently: You open up Facebook or Twitter, and someone you know is posting about a conspiracy theory. You wonder, Do I say something? Is there any convincing them otherwise? For Jenny Fournier, it’s her aunt. “She got sort of really into the QAnon …
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When news of U.S. President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis broke just after midnight on Friday, QAnon followers reacted with glee—not because the president, who they idolize, was sick, but because the news must mean that “the storm,” the great revelation where Trump would arrest his enemies for …
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