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How should tech firms combat conspiracy theories and remove dangerously misleading content. It has proven to be a daunting challenge during the 2020 election. A team of researchers at Google’s Jigsaw worked last year with ethnographers at the consulting company ReD to take on that
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During the 2016 US election campaign, a conspiracy theory known as #Pizzagate went viral on rightwing websites. The theory, which claimed that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was involved in a child sex ring run from a Washington pizza restaurant,
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Modern flat Earth societies From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search “Flat Earth Society” redirects here. For other uses, see Flat Earth Society (disambiguation). Modern-day groups that claim the Earth is flat Projections of the sphere like this one have been co-opted as images of the flat Earth model depicting […]
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On 16 August 1819, an estimated 60,000 pro-democracy and anti-poverty activists were peacefully protesting the utterly corrupt nature of the Parliament in Westminster and demanding the reform of parliamentary representation (which afforded less than 2% of people the right to
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Water fluoridation controversy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is part of a series on Alternative medicine General information Alternative medicine Alternative veterinary medicine Quackery (Health fraud) History of alternative medicine Rise of modern medicine Pseudoscience Antiscience Skepticism Skeptical movement National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health […]
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A crop of courses on fake news have been cropping up in Canadian universities. Many of them pull insights from political science, philosophy, history and psychology. For an assignment in the course Fake News and Alt-Facts: Navigating Post-Truths Politics at
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After Citibank IT specialist Jason Gelinas was outed last week as operator of the main QAnon website, reporters went to his house in New Jersey hoping for a statement from him, but all they got was, “QAnon is a patriotic movement to
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Illustration: Zohar Lazar for New York Magazine This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Late 2017. Marjorie Taylor Greene,the 43-year-old founder of a CrossFit gym in a
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John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Conspiracy theory For the assassination conspiracy theories about his brother, see Robert F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. President John F. Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs. Connally, and Texas Governor John Connally minutes before the assassination. The assassination of […]
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Wildfire is an inherently complex biogeochemical process, and there is no singular reason for the worsening crisis. It’s not just climate change, nor simply the unfortunate legacy of 20th century forest management, nor only the continued expansion into the wildland
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