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TikTok star The judo-loving Georgescu has some 3.8 million likes on TikTok and 298,000 followers, while his videos regularly attract millions of views. During the campaign, accounts with bot-like behavior were highly active in comments on YouTube, Facebook and TikTok. Some also attacked his …
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The American political system has always been riddled with conspiracy theories. Since the country’s earliest days, whispers of hidden agendas and undercover operations have entered our political discourse. In 1963, the belief that the government was involved in the assassination of former President …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump‘s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is well known for his anti-vaccine stance and dabbling in junk science. But ahead of his potential confirmation, more details of his conspiracist views on Covid-19 have come to light — including the fact …
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Claim: Video clip authentically shows U.S. President Joe Biden wandering off into the Amazon rainforest on an unmarked pathway. Context Online users and publishers falsely claimed a video showed Biden walking into the rainforest on an unmarked pathway. However, an extended video from the same …
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Audrey McNamaraUpdated November 18, 2024 at 9:28 AM Matt Rourke / APA new report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate finds that “just 12 anti-vaxxers are responsible for almost two-thirds of anti-vaccine content circulating on social media platforms.” The so-called “Disinformation Dozen” …
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In the days following the presidential election, a familiar strain of denialism and conspiracy thinking began to emerge in the corners of some social media platforms. On the right, familiar conspiracy theories about voting popularized by President-elect Donald Trump continued to circulate. But …
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Dr. Philip McMillan posted a question on LinkedIn: “Suppose autopsies showed vasculitis as the most common pathology in vaccinated deaths. Would we be concerned?” His post was flagged as “hateful speech.” “This censorship isn’t just about me,” he writes. “It’s about preventing the public from …
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Claim: Beyoncé announced a boycott of hosting concerts in red states — those that backed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump — after the 2024 presidential election. A rumor circulating widely online in November 2024 posited that singer-songwriter Beyoncé announced a boycott of hosting concerts in red …
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Although the mystery of the forum poster known as Q has been all but solved – it’s the guys who run 8chan, of course it’s always been the guys who run 8chan – the movement they’ve inspired has kept gathering momentum, forming into its own snowball of idiocy with no input from above. Case in point: …
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Happy Election Day! Surely everything will go smoothly this time, right? Send news tips to: will.oremus@washpost.com. Here’s how Meta, TikTok, YouTube and X are moderating election threats. Four years after the major social media platforms took unprecedented steps to crack down on falsehoods in the …
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