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Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender.
Conspiracy theories that centre on fears about child abuse and removal are being shared in Australia, as part of a broader trend of misinformation related to children. In addition to the gamut of #baking shots, pet pics and lockdown selfies, coronavirus has seen an upswing in the sharing of …
Read MorePodcast host Joe Rogan invited Alex Jones, America’s most prominent conspiracy theorist, on his show this week. Rogan defended hosting Jones by saying he’s “gotten so many things right” — even as he’s made false inflammatory claims like saying the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax — and has been …
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Jon Kamen and Frank Scherma’s RadicalMedia and The Atlantic have partnered to produce the recurring docuseries Shadowland, with Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich) attached to direct and executive produce. The series — based on The Atlantic‘s own reporting project of the …
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Radical Media and The Atlantic will co-produce a docuseries based on the magazine’s June cover story, “The Prophecies of Q,” which chronicles the dangerous and growing power of QAnon. The magazine’s interactive companion project, “Shadowland,” is also the title of the future docuseries. The first …
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The Republican Party has engaged in a delicate dance with the sprawling movement known as QAnon, exploiting the energy behind it where possible, while working to keep a safe public distance elsewhere. As Election Day draws nearer, however, Republicans are dropping some of their reticence. In …
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The conspiracy group QAnon has made headlines in the run up to the 2020 general election. What started out as a fringe internet group has slowly made its way into U.S. politics. But what exactly is QAnon? At it’s core, QAnon is a blanket term for internet conspiracy theories that falsely claimed …
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Increasingly, friends, colleagues and readers share the same story with me: Online, somebody they know and love has stumbled into the treacherous world of online conspiracy theories and, in some cases, might not even know it. I’m often asked: How do you talk to people you care about who might be on …
Read MoreVirginia Giuffre Roberts, a woman accusing sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell of underage sex trafficking, shared QAnon slogans on Wednesday and Thursday. QAnon is a baseless far-right conspiracy theory that claims President Donald Trump is secretly fighting a …
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Lately, I have been putting an embarrassing amount of thought into notions like jinxes and knocking on wood. The polls for Joe Biden look good, but in 2020, any hint of optimism feels dangerously naïve, and my brain has been working overtime in search of potential doom. If I sound jumpy, it’s …
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During a town hall event on Oct. 15, NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie pressed President Donald Trump on his sharing of a baseless conspiracy theory that accused his election rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, of murder. The theory, which has no basis in fact, specifically claimed Biden had members …
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