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As the war between Israel and Hamas has intensified in Gaza, disinformation and conspiracy theories about the conflict have been increasingly circulating on social media. At least that’s what I found in my analysis of some 12,000 comments posted on Telegram channels in the immediate aftermath of …
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Research published today by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) found that social media platforms are largely failing to enforce their own community guidelines and terms of service.It is the culmination of a year of work carried out by analysts Aoife Gallagher, Ciarán O’Connor and Francesca …
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Gretchen Felker-Martin, a well-known transgender horror author and journalist, tweeted on Thursday that she admired bin Laden for the 9/11 attacksFelker-Martin, who in February declared that she wanted to slit JK Rowling’s throat, later deleted the tweet and apologizedBin Laden has returned to …
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A number of users have posted TikToks in recent days that share parts of Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to America,” where the deceased al Qaeda leader said the attacks on September 11, 2001, were justified. Posters used it to critique US foreign policy and have claimed that the letter changed …
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, endorsed on Wednesday a post on X espousing baseless antisemitic conspiracy theories that Jewish people are promoting “hatred against whites” and support bringing “hordes of minorities” into western nations, drawing condemnation from Jewish groups and praise from …
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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinOn TikTok, a more than two decade-old letter from Osama Bin Laden to the United States about the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans in 2001 is rapidly spreading to the platform’s 1 billion users. The memo is spreading …
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The late Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden’s famous “Letter to America,” released one year after the September 11, 2001 attacks, has gone viral on the social media platform TikTok, with thousands of Western users expressing sympathy with the ideas expressed by one of the worst mass murderers of the …
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A post on Instagram liked more than a thousand times claims that English data “shockingly revealed that the vaccinated population accounted for 95% of COVID-19 deaths in the 12 months between 1st June 2022 and 31st May 2023”. It has also been shared on X (formerly Twitter). Although this figure is …
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On Sept. 12, four days before he was expected at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theater for another sold-out show, Russell Brand asked his fans for a favor. “I’ve always struggled with authority and being told what to do,” he wrote to ticketholders, attaching a questionnaire for a planned bit with his …
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A Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) spokesperson says it “did not censor or ask social media platforms to remove any social media content regarding coronavirus vaccine side effects.” This denial came in response to Twitter Files published by Matt Taibbi in March, which revealed that SIO’s …
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