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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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Topline Twitter said Thursday it will extend its restrictions on QAnon-linked accounts and content to political candidates and elected officials who promote the conspiracy theory, a pivot in the company’s stance from August when it told Forbes it was “evaluating” an “expansion” of the policy. …
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As wildfires were burning across Oregon and California this week, conspiracy theories about how the fires started were moving nearly as rapidly on Facebook. Posts falsely blaming members of antifa or Black Lives Matter spread across the platform nearly unchecked, causing calls about “antifa …
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Twitter said Thursday it has reduced impressions on QAnon-related tweets by more than 50 per cent through its “work to deamplify content and accounts” associated with the conspiracy theory. In July, the social media company said it would stop recommending QAnon content and accounts in a crackdown …
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Facebook and Instagram have placed a ”False Information” label on a post from the Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in which Carlson interviews Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese virologist, who has previously claimed the coronavirus “is not from nature,” on Wednesday. Why it matters: Facebook has made …
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