How social media can nudge people into becoming conspiracy theorists

January 27, 2021 big tech, qanon

Archived 6 years ago from New Scientist
How social media can nudge people into becoming conspiracy theorists

By Matthew Sparkes Conspiracy theory groups like QAnon find followerson social media sitesREUTERS/Patrick Fallon CLAMPING down on conspiracy theories may not help tackle extremist views online, instead it might cause them to proliferate. Shruti Phadke at the University of Washington in Seattle and …

Elections

January 26, 2021 big tech, marjorie taylor greene, mike lindell, qanon, sidney powell

Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
Twitter bans MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell

Lindell’s continued allegations of widespread general-election fraud, for which there is no evidence, recently led to the threat of a costly lawsuit and the resignation of a board member from his Minnesota-based bedding company. Several prominent retailers have dropped the MyPillow brand, although …

Twitter permanently bans MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell over purported election misinformation

Elections

January 26, 2021 2020 election, big tech, mike lindell, qanon

Archived 6 years ago from TheBlaze
Twitter permanently bans MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell over purported election misinformation

Twitter permanently banned Trump confidant and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Monday night for reportedly violating the social media platform’s “Civic Integrity Policy.” According to Reuters, Lindell also financed “post-election protest movements” in a bid to overturn the Electoral College …

Mike Lindell, MyPillow C.E.O. and a Trump conspiracy advocate, is barred from Twitter.

Elections

January 26, 2021 2020 election, big tech, covid19, mike lindell, qanon, trump

Archived 6 years ago from The New York Times
Mike Lindell, MyPillow C.E.O. and a Trump conspiracy advocate, is barred from Twitter.

Twitter has permanently suspended MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell — one of President Trump’s most conspicuous remaining public defenders — for peddling debunked conspiracy theories about voter fraud in the 2020 elections. Mr. Lindell’s Twitter account, which had nearly 413,000 followers, was …

Elections

January 26, 2021 2020 election, big tech, covid19, mike lindell, qanon, trump

Archived 6 years ago from The New York Times
Mike Lindell, the MyPillow C.E.O. and a Trump conspiracy advocate, is barred from Twitter.

QAnon

January 25, 2021 big tech

Archived 6 years ago from Reuters
Online merchants linked to QAnon down, but not out, following platform bans

FILE PHOTO: A supporter of President Donald Trump holds an U.S. flag with a reference to QAnon during a Trump 2020 Labor Day cruise rally in honor of Patriot Prayer supporter Aaron J. Danielson, who was shot dead in Portland, Oregon, after street clashes between supporters of President Donald Trump …

QAnon

January 25, 2021 big tech

Archived 6 years ago from Yahoo Finance
Online merchants linked to QAnon down, but not out, following platform bans

By Jeffrey Dastin, Sheila Dang and Anna Irrera (Reuters) – Since last year, entrepreneur Dustin Krieger has faced bans by an expanding list of big tech companies: four blocked PayPal accounts, half a dozen Twitter deactivations, de-listed merchandise by Shopify and most recently Amazon’s removal of …

QAnon

January 25, 2021 big tech, deep state, trump

Archived 5 years ago from Rolling Stone
QAnon Believers Are Pushing New Trump Conspiracy Theories on TikTok

Over the past few months, as conspiracy theories have circulated regarding the election results and President Joe Biden’s inauguration, social platforms have struggled to keep up with the onslaught of misinformation. Much of these false narratives have been driven by believers of the QAnon …

QAnon

January 24, 2021 2020 election, big tech, china, george soros, sidney powell

Archived 6 years ago from InsiderNJ
Lawmakers Call for QAnon Crackdown as More Women Follow Baseless Conspiracies

Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland both lost their lives during the January 6th attack on the Capitol. The late Ashli Babbitt of California, marching to the Capitol. Thirty-five-year-old Babbitt, an Air Force Veteran, was shot and killed by a police officer as she tried to make her way through a …

Great Reset

January 22, 2021 big tech, bill gates, china, george soros

Archived 6 years ago from Evangelical Focus
Is ‘The Great Reset’ a plan of the global elites to restrict our freedoms?

The Great Reset is the newest initiative of the World Economic Forum (WEF, also known just as ‘Davos’) and will be launched during a 4-day online conference in January 2021. But some of the ideas of this global platform (that over that las 50 years has brought together in Switzerland political …

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