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Though most U.S. social media platforms are based in our country, there is nothing ‘American’ about them. In fact, they are about as anti-American as they can get. Take Twitter, for instance. The platform’s speech Nazis just censored a Chinese scientist who published a paper alleging that the …
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Walmart, Amazon and other corporate giants donated money to a Tennessee state lawmaker’s reelection campaign after she used social media to amplify and promote the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to an Associated Press review of campaign finance records and the candidate’s posts. The corporate …
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Of all the bits of sleepover gossip ever uttered, this was the most unexpected. “Basically, Hillary Clinton sex traffics children and sacrifices them to Satan or something,” said my friend Beth, straightfaced. “It’s called Pizzagate, or whatever.” It was a Friday night a few weeks ago and even …
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Engagement with anti-vaccine posts on a sample of UK Facebook pages trebled between July and August, analysis by the Guardian has found, triggering calls for a major new push to tackle conspiracy theories. Interactions on posts expressing scepticism or hostility towards vaccines on six UK Facebook …
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Image: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie Image: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie A SMALL BUT animated network of Irish far-right groups is using the pandemic to try to recruit members. Some are attempting to import the language of American conspiracy theory movements to boost their own profiles and mobilise …
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Gaige Grosskreutz wasn’t even out of the hospital when his phone started blowing up. Shot point blank in the arm with an AR-15, he was the only person to survive a triple shooting at a protest condemning the shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha police. Weeks later, the messages haven’t stopped. And …
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Last month, Facebook said it was cracking down on activity tied to QAnon, a vast conspiracy theory that falsely claims that a satanic cabal runs the world, as well as other potentially violent extremist movements. Since then, a militia movement on Facebook that called for armed …
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A conspiracy theory that Donald Trump is waging a secret war against an elite who engage in ritual child abuse is growing across UK social media, Guardian analysis has found. The QAnon conspiracy theory is propelled by an unlikely coalition of spirituality and wellness groups, vigilante “paedophile …
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From Facebook to Twitter to YouTube, social media companies whose platforms were used to amplify falsehoods, conspiracy theories and inflammatory rhetoric in 2016 have been preparing for November’s presidential election for years. Now it’s crunch time. On Thursday, FBI Director Christopher …
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A viral TikTok shows a firefighter debunking conspiracy theories about the fires currently ravaging the West Coast. The video has amassed hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok, and millions on Twitter. There are currently over 85 fires affecting areas on the West Coast, and at least 35 people …
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