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Conspiracy theories are powerful forces in the U.S. They have damaged public health amid a global pandemic, shaken faith in the democratic process and helped spark a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021. These conspiracy theories are part of
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Over the summer, as bogus information about COVID and vaccines spread aggressively across social media, President Joe Biden’s irritations with Facebook boiled over. “They’re killing people,” he said. The president soon backtracked, softening his position a bit. But his frustration
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A letter in response disparages RFK Jr. with the conversation-stopping, thought-arresting term “conspiracy theory,” inimical to critical inquiry. Abundant evidence corroborates the assertion that Sirhan Sirhan’s bullets did not kill Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, including Lisa Pease’s meticulously documented book,
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The conspiracy theory that the army was rounding up at gunpoint and holding Indigenous people down to forcefully vaccinate them seems to have developed out of an increasingly feverish dialogue between the US and Australia. US libertarians and pro-freedom groups
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In Pittsburgh; Memphis, Tennessee; and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, “Birds Aren’t Real.” On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren’t Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers, and YouTube videos about it have gone viral.
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Other false claims about the new variant have leaped across the Internet in the two weeks since it was first identified. One post in a group with more than a million members on the Telegram messaging app claimed the vaccines
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Most Birds Aren’t Real members, many of whom are part of an on-the-ground activism network called the Bird Brigade, grew up in a world overrun with misinformation. Some have relatives who have fallen victim to conspiracy theories. So for members
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The battle royale among members of the conspiracy-loving far-right continued to rage this week as former Trump attorney Lin Wood accused the conservative media and possibly Trump allies like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Michael Flynn of being “Deep State”
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Mystery “UFO sounds” recorded from under a lake in Colorado have sparked a bizarre alien base conspiracy. But science may have some more mundane explanations as to where this Martian noise is coming from. Recordings taken from Steamboat Springs in Colorado
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Over the past four years, QAnon (aka a set of unfounded fringe internet conspiracy theories) gained a huge following from America’s far-right. But it wasn’t until 2020 that it made its way into mainstream culture. Now we’ve heard it mentioned in headlines, documentaries,
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