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Conspiracy theories have made their way into mainstream politics, with QAnon and misinformation about large-scale voter fraud among the most visible. Today we talk about a new study on misinformation and conspiracy theories around the 2020 election. We talk to the co-author behind that study find …
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Jon Kamen and Frank Scherma’s RadicalMedia and The Atlantic have partnered to produce the recurring docuseries Shadowland, with Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich) attached to direct and executive produce. The series — based on The Atlantic‘s own reporting project of the …
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On Wednesday, a group called Lawyers Defending Democracy published an extraordinary, open letter addressed to the 100,000 professionals working in the United States Department of Justice. This letter was signed by more than 600 members of the bar from across the United States, including three …
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The opinions stated in this article are solely those of the author and not of The Davis Clipper. A 50-year-old woman in Utah County told reporters last week that she was œa huge conspiracy theory person.” Thanks to the Internet and suspicious social media messages, she is not alone. Conspiracy …
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NATIONWIDE – A new study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center has taken a look at the relationship between those who believe in COVID-19 conspiracy theories and their willingness to take preventative measures known to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. What You Need To Know Study surveyed …
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YouTube is bringing its fact-check information panels to the UK and Germany as part of an international crusade against misinformation. The geographical expansion follows the success of similar panels in the US, Brazil and India. What does the fact-checking tool do? Region-specific ’information …
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Amy Mitchell, Mark Jurkowitz, J. Baxter Oliphant and Elisa Shearer | Pew Research Center As the nation heads toward Election Day in the midst of a persistent pandemic and simmering social unrest, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that Americans’ deep partisan divide, dueling information …
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Facebook says it’s moving aggressively to counter climate-change misinformation with a Climate Science Information Center that launched Tuesday and aims to connect users with science-based facts. “Climate change is real,” the company said. “The science is unambiguous and the need to act grows more …
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The QAnon conspiracy theory, roughly speaking, is both discredited and outlandish at the outset. The crib notes version is this: President Donald Trump is being opposed by a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedohpiles who are running an extensive child trafficking ring across the globe. The theory, on …
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A popular site for the dissemination of QAnon posts and ideas shut down after a fact-checking group identified the site developer. Logically.ai, a fact-checking site, identified the “developer and mouthpiece” behind the site as Jason Gelinas, a New Jersey man appearing to work in IT at Citigroup. …
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