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COVID-19 conspiracies
No, there is no link between the coronavirus and 5G – nor is there any truth in the claim that Bill Gates is involved in a devilish plot to put a chip in everyone. A tidal wave of conspiracy theories and misinformation is swamping social media and on Tech Tent this week we look at the impact of …
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A headteacher in Stoke-on-Trent told me that, alongside ensuring a COVID-safe return to school for her pupils this September, she’s having to reassure parents that their children will not be forcibly taken away and isolated in a secret location if they start coughing in class. The headteacher keeps …
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A headteacher in Stoke-on-Trent told me that, alongside ensuring a COVID-safe return to school for her pupils this September, she’s having to reassure parents that their children will not be forcibly taken away and isolated in a secret location if they start coughing in class. The headteacher keeps …
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It was Dec. 4, 2016, near the nation’s capital, and Edgar Welch was about to do something heroic. It was all over the internet that Comet Ping Pong pizzeria housed secret tunnels in which Hillary Clinton and others kept children penned up in cages. Edgar was there to rescue them. Just the previous …
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The Annenberg Public Policy Center found that belief in conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic is partly correlated with the refusal to wear a mask. Credit: Kylie Cooper New research from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center reveals that belief in conspiracy theories about the …
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The logo of video-sharing website YouTube is displayed on a smartphone on November 19, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Thomas Trutschel | Photothek via Getty Images YouTube will start showing users in the U.K. and Germany fact-checking panels on some video searches, expanding on its efforts to tackle …
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The past four weeks have seen a sudden flare-up in anti-mask and coronavirus-denier protests in European cities. There is a risk these will grow as EU states re-impose hygiene and social-distancing measures due to a second wave of infections – posing a danger to public order and health. The …
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September 23, 2020 at 10:21 AM EDT Feared covid-19 outbreaks in schools yet to arrive, early data shows By Laura Meckler and Valerie Strauss Thousands of students and teachers have become sick with covid-19 since schools began opening last month, but so far, public health experts have found little …
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Former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown released the anti-mask, anti-vax “Little Seed Big Tree” on Friday, which we’d hoped meant he would knock it off with the cryptic tweets blasting COVID-19 lockdown that were, perhaps, to promote it. No, it appears that Brown is really invested in this conspiracy …
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Earlier this summer, I noticed this alarming shift in my Facebook feed. Childhood friends and old high school acquaintances began plastering my timeline with posts referring to a satanic cabal of pedophile elites, including hysterical, unfounded claims about the proliferation of child sex …
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