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In 1999 I sat in a Vancouver café with a group of anti-capitalist activists. They’d just returned from protesting the WTO in Seattle to find a new, far stranger foe in town – David Icke. He was there to lecture about how the ruling elite are actually child-sacrificing, blood-drinking paedophile …
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Conspiracy theory From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Explanation of an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy The Eye of Providence, or the all-seeing eye of God, seen here on the US$1 bill, has been taken by some to be evidence of a conspiracy involving the founders of the United States …
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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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