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Hanna Linderstål wanted to see how deep the rabbit hole of anti-5G theories would go. The Stockholm-based researcher had been studying online groups opposed to the new technology for years. Then she watched as the movement reached a tipping point earlier this year amid the coronavirus outbreak …
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You might try to ignore it at first: Your aunt’s YouTube videos about how coronavirus is a bioweapon. The former workmate forwarding 5G conspiracy theories on WhatsApp. The pandemic has quickly changed everything — we’re confined to our homes, glued to our screens — and among some families and …
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TOPLINE Twitter has updated its coronavirus guidelines, stating it will remove unverified claims that cause “widespread panic” or encourage people to act on conspiracy theories, after phone masts across the U.K. were set alight following bogus claims about 5G. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Getty Images …
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The video lasts just 13 seconds and shows nothing more than the view from a car quietly driving past a hospital entrance. But the person who posted it on Twitter used the footage to sarcastically question reports of “apocalyptic conditions” at Mount Sinai Queens in New York City. That video and …
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Staff at a US-based non-profit have received death threats linked to erroneous claims about its work on digital ID in a case propelled by the tide of misinformation over coronavirus and false accusations against Bill Gates. Dakota Gruener, CEO of New York-based non-profit ID2020, told The New …
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We still have a great deal to learn about the new coronavirus, but there’s one thing all the experts are united on: 5G is not to blame. 5G, or the fifth-generation mobile network, will power Australia’s hyper-connected future, but on the internet of today it’s become a conspiratorial catch-all. New …
Read MoreLondon, United Kingdom – The theories have spread almost as fast as the new coronavirus: Chloroquine is a proven cure, children are immune and 5G caused the pandemic.From the seemingly plausible to the predictably untrue, fake news about COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, is flooding the …
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Facebook has followed YouTube in removing a video of conspiracy theorist David Icke falsely linking coronavirus and 5G. YouTube said it will remove all conspiracy theory videos linking 5G and coronavirus in a bid to tackle a growing amount misinformation around Covid-19. On Monday, a live-streamed …
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Long before Mark walked in the door of their Chicago home one day last year carrying a machete, Elena knew that their 20-year marriage was coming to an end, thanks to QAnon.It all began with 9/11 conspiracy videos on YouTube. Videos by VICE “I knew he was prone to get hyper-focused on something, …
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YouTube and other social media platforms are taking steps to limit the spread of conspiracy theories falsely connecting 5G networks and the coronavirus pandemic after a string of attacks on cell phone towers.Mobile operators said Monday that there have been at least five instances of vandals …
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