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The Deep State
The perpetuation of and interest in conspiracies has proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conspiracy theories often blend historical, religious, and scientific ideas by way of challenging “official” explanations of events and data provided by authorities, academics, and mainstream media. They …
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Here’s a scenario you may have found yourself in recently: You open up Facebook or Twitter, and someone you know is posting about a conspiracy theory. You wonder, Do I say something? Is there any convincing them otherwise? For Jenny Fournier, it’s her aunt. “She got sort of really into the QAnon …
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki isn’t committing to an outright ban of QAnon content on the platform. Wojcicki was asked about banning QAnon, a baseless far-right conspiracy theory, during an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow. She cited the movement’s grassroots nature as a complicating factor in …
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It must be occurring to millions of individuals, upon observing the depressing spectacle of top down politics in action, that in the great majority of cases what are termed ‘governments’ are no longer in any way fit to govern. It must be dawning on many millions, possibly billions, that those who …
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On Tuesday, Facebook announced that it would remove content related to QAnon from its platforms ahead of next month’s U.S. presidential election. The move, which another group might see as a major setback, was quickly wrapped into the movement’s lore: Supporters viewed the ban as a sign, the New …
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CNN’s Poppy Harlow asks YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki about the decision to remove a video of President Trump saying children are “almost immune from Covid-19” as well as other coronavirus misinformation. For years, YouTube has faced challenges over the types of content it removes, from terrorist …
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This article was originally published in May 2020. On Friday, Donald Trump announced his appointment of Moncef Slaoui, a former executive with vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, to lead “Operation Warp Speed”, Trump’s plan to fast track the development of vaccines for COVID-19. Slaoui will serve …
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By Joel Achenbach and Laurie McGinley, Michael Reynolds EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Empty chairs — 20,000 in all — appeared on the Ellipse near the White House this month to memorialize the more than 200,000 people in the United States who have died of covid-19. In another era, what happened Wednesday …
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The claim: Walter Reed hospital was trying to kill Trump for ‘deep state’ President Donald Trump is back at the White House after receiving treatment for COVID-19 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. But a viral video by right-wing media outlet InfoWars claims the doctors there weren’t really …
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Followers of the online conspiracy theorist “QAnon” have propagated outlandish disinformation about secret plots by a “deep state” cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic child-traffickers out to “get” President Trump. How do these anonymous accusations spread, and what happens if Q believers are elected …
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