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My Turn: The politics of conspiracy Opinion > Columns A man holds a Q sign – for the QAnon conspiracy theory – while he waits in line to enter a campaign rally for President Donald Trump in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Aug. 2, 2018. AP For the Monitor Published: 8/4/2019 7:00:13 AM Even as we celebrate …
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Claim: George Soros was arrested in Switzerland in February 2019. George Soros, perhaps the most maligned and lied-about public figure alive, was once again the target of another garbled and malicious rumor in February 2019, when conspiracy theory websites reported the “breaking news” that he had …
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Alex Jones from Infowars.com speaks during a rally in support of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump near the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., July 18, 2016. Lucas Jackson | Reuters This was supposed to be Alex Jones‘ moment. Jones has spent much of the past 23 …
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If you watched any of President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday night, you likely caught a glimpse of people holding up signs with “Q” or “QAnon” printed on them. Those people are adherents of a broad-scale conspiracy theory that pits President Trump against a global …
Read MoreClaim: An “extreme snuff film” in which Hillary Clinton and aide Huma Abedin are seen raping and mutilating a prepubescent girl is circulating on the dark web under the code name “Frazzledrip.” Somewhere on the dark web there exists a video of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and longtime …
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Nothing suspicious about this chemtrail. Flickr Creative Commons Alexa’s been watching too many conspiracy theory videos. Amazon’s digital voice assistant is available in everything from washing machines to alarm clocks. But as several users found out, the technology still has some blind spots. …
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Veteran CIA officer Cleveland Cram was nearing the end of his career in 1978, when his superiors in the agency’s directorate of operations handed him a sensitive assignment: Write a history of the agency’s Counterintelligence Staff. Cram, then 61, was well qualified for the task. He had a master’s …
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Claim: The man accused of opening fire on hundreds of people in a Las Vegas casino in October 2017 was spotted at an anti-Trump protest two months earlier. The aftermath of a mass shooting is often a springboard for misinformation as ordinary citizens attempt to do their own investigative work. …
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Seth Rich died on the night of July 10, 2016. The conspiracy theories were born days later. The process by which these baseless theories about his death snaked from Reddit to Twitter to Fox News illustrates just how thin the membrane has become between the conspiracy world and the mainstream.Police …
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Does alien life exist?Who better to ask than Nick Pope?In a career spanning two decades within the UK Ministry of Defence, Pope’s tenure was marked by an intriguing assignment: delving into the murky world of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Tasked with scrutinizing the potential defense, …
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