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Facing the facts about fictions: Challenging conspiracy theories from Area 51 to 9/11
Opinion U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t the only one who frequently favours fiction over facts. In Canada, experts warn baseless COVID-19 conspiracy theories — for example, that the virus is being spread to cover up the effects of 5G wireless
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Podcast: Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny explain QAnon
Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny are NBC News reporters focusing on mis- and disinformation in health and politics. Here, they speak with Lawfare’s Quinta Jurecic and Evelyn Douek about QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory built around anonymous internet posts heralding
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What Is QAnon? | Here & Now
At least 14 Republican candidates with links to QAnon have made their way into runoffs or onto the ballot this November. QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory and loosely organized network centered around the belief that the U.S. is controlled
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Under the influence: Peddling conspiracy in a pandemic
Celebrity sells – it always has. But in the digital age, the boundaries of celebrity have changed. Once it was the prerogative of movie, sports or music stars to front a fashion label or promote perfume. But nowadays the marketplace
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How the Trump campaign came to court QAnon, the online conspiracy movement identified by the FBI as a violent threat
By Isaac Stanley-Becker, Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post QAnon supporters wait for a military flyover at the World War II Memorial during Fourth of July celebrations in Washington. This story was featured in Drop Me The Link, our one-story
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It’s too late to stop QAnon with fact checks and account bans
The traditional understanding of QAnon was that its ideas are spread by a relatively small number of adherents who are extremely good at manipulating social media for maximum visibility. But the pandemic made that more complicated, as QAnon began merging
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Can anyone tame QAnon?
Twitter and TikTok both took action against the internet’s most persistent conspiracy theory this week, but experts suggested it may be too little and too late to halt the phenomenon known as QAnon. Since October 2017, the anonymous individual or
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Twitter Bans QAnon Accounts
OAKLAND, Calif. — Twitter said Tuesday evening that it had removed thousands of accounts that spread messages about the conspiracy theories known as QAnon, saying their messages could lead to harm and violated Twitter policy. Twitter said it would also
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Donald Trump refuses to condemn QAnon: Here’s what to know about the far-right conspiracy theory
President Donald Trump on Thursday refused to condemn QAnon, saying he knows “nothing” about the growing, yet baseless, conspiracy theory that falsely alleges the existence of a satanic “deep state” apparatus that supports a child sex trafficking ring. “I know nothing about
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