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Gaston BritoSome of the most persistent conspiracy theories surrounding the coronavirus pandemic have continued to spread around the world.We’ve picked out some of the most pervasive false claims and look at how far they’ve travelled.5G to Bolivia and beyond But this hasn’t stopped these rumours …
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In early May, QAnon braced for a purge. Facebook had removed a small subset – five pages, six groups and 20 profiles – of the community on the social network, and as word of the bans spread, followers of Q began preparing for a broader sweep. Some groups changed their names, substituting “17” for …
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People were asked if they believed a number of conspiracy theories relating to Covid-19: that the virus was made in a laboratory, that death and infection figures were being manipulated by the authorities, that symptoms were linked to 5G radiation or that there was no hard evidence the virus even …
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17 June 2020Rory Cellan-JonesGetty ImagesFrom the idea that the coronavirus was created in a lab to the belief that it is all part of a plan to bring in compulsory vaccinations, conspiracy theories have been plentiful in recent months.Now, research indicates that people who get their news from …
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In times of crisis conspiracy theories can spread as fast as a virus. As the coronavirus pandemic tightened its grip on a world which struggled to comprehend the enormity of the situation it was facing, darker forces were concocting their own narratives. Scientists and researchers were working – …
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At least four people who attempted to debunk coronavirus misinformation that President Donald Trump said in a Fox & Friends interview were locked out of their Twitter accounts when they tweeted Trump’s words. In the Wednesday interview, the president said children are “almost immune” to the virus — …
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A man stands next to a 5G sign at the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit in Kunming, China, May 23, 2019.Stringer | ReutersTwitter is adding fact-checking labels to tweets that wrongly link new superfast 5G mobile networks with the coronavirus. Instead of deleting or hiding such tweets, …
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18 June 2020ShareSaveJack GoodmanBBC Reality CheckShareSaveBBCResearching viruses in farm animals is essential rather than glamorous work, and The Pirbright Institute in Surrey excels at it. But recently they’ve been getting some very unwanted attention. For months they’ve been unwittingly drawn …
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by Alexandre Alaphilippe Printable version here For a few weeks now, conspiracy theories around 5G and Coronavirus have been flooding the web, leading to real-life incidents with acts of vandalism on cell towers in the UK. Despite being strongly refuted by scientists, these theories range from the …
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The question was posed bluntly to the nearly 100,000 members of a Facebook group devoted to ending Pennsylvania’s stay-at-home orders, with a user writing, “if there was a vaccine for coronavirus would you be likely to take it.” “Absolutely not.” The resoundingly negative answers streamed forth, …
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