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The victims of some of the most pernicious conspiracy theories of 2020 are fighting back in court. Voting equipment companies have filed a series of massive defamation lawsuits against allies of former President Trump in an effort to exert accountability over falsehoods about the companies’ role in …
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Voters in Atlanta casting their ballots on voting equipment made by Dominion Voting Systems. After losing the election, former President Trump and his allies spread conspiracy theories about the company, which has responded with defamation suits to combat the disinformation. Jessica McGowan/Getty …
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While Canadian health authorities fight back against what Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam has called “an infodemic” — the spread of false information about the COVID-19 pandemic — others are working just as hard to target the public with conspiracy theories. Marketplace journalists took …
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The far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been banned from Facebook, Apple, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Spotify and even PayPal for violating those sites’ policies against hate speech. But Jones continues to have a platform to sell expensive dietary supplements through one of the …
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Alex Jones addresses a pro-Trump crowd on Jan. 6, the day of the U.S. Capitol riot. Jones is widely known for his support of baseless and often bigoted conspiracy theories, and he has been banned from many tech platforms, though not Amazon. Jon Cherry/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jon …
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The claim: The shooting that killed 10 people in a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store is fake Within hours of the shooting deaths of 10 people in Boulder, Colorado, misinformation about the shooting began to spread. On Facebook, an account with nearly 60,000 followers wrote that the shooting was …
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QAnon is an online conspiracy theory based on the premise that Donald Trump is trying to save the world from a cabal of powerful, blood-imbibing paedophiles. Since its first appearance in 2017, QAnon has ruined relationships and fuelledviolence. Oh, and it’s generated plenty of memes. There’s the …
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The QAnon conspiracy theory cult that has spread around the world over the last two years has had a rough couple of months as one after another of its apocalyptic prophecies has failed to come to pass. The movement was born on 4chan in October 2017 as a grander evolution of the earlier Pizzagate …
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Broadcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said it was a “form of psychosis” that caused him to believe certain events — like the Sandy Hook massacre — were staged. CNN’s Randi Kaye digs deeper. TownNews.com Content Exchange TownNews.com Content Exchange
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Such unhinged conspiracy theories once ran rampant on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. But months of purging accounts that trafficked heavily in the baseless QAnon ideology — especially after it helped fuel the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol — have reduced those voices on leading social media …
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