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Right after former president Donald Trump was shot at his campaign rally in Pennsylvania, conspiracy theories exploded online. Today on WIRED Politics Lab, we discuss the subsequent calls for violence and civil war, and the way that militias are recruiting off of the incident. Plus, we report from …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized to Donald Trump on Tuesday after a portion of a phone call between the two men was leaked to social media by Kennedy’s son on Sunday. What were the two presidential candidates talking about? The assassination attempt against Trump on Saturday, the “tough” gun used …
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Soon after a bullet grazed Donald Trump’s ear, the conspiracy theory hashtags started appearing. Social media discourse on the shooting was immediately punctuated by #staged, #fakeassassination and #stagedshooting as a familiar refrain took hold: don’t trust what they tell you.In a sign of how …
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Minutes after Saturday’s shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa., liberals began flooding social media platforms with conspiracy theories.They claimed the blood on former president Donald Trump’s ear was from a theatrical gel pack; that the shooting was a “false flag,” perhaps coordinated by the …
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Law enforcement officials quickly launched an investigation into the Saturday night shooting of Donald Trump as an assassination attempt, offering few details. That did not stop a torrent of unsubstantiated theories from flooding social media and other channels shortly after the event.Some accounts …
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Conspiracy theories, false claims and unsupported assertions exploded online Saturday after Donald Trump was injured in what is being investigated as an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.Wild theories about the attack, ranging from speculation about who the shooter was …
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Marcy Rosemond, a 52-year-old barista from Santa Rosa Crossing, spots chemtrails in the sky at Copper Sky Regional Park. [Bryan Mordt] While Maricopa’s rapid development during the housing bubble kept eyes earthbound, Shawn Brian’s gaze wandered skyward. In 2006, he lived on Rancho El Dorado’s …
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June 27, 20244 min readAmid the pandemic, the Pentagon ran a conspiracy campaign to discredit vaccines–just so it could score points against China. The revelation is a worst-case scenario for global public healthBy Keith KloorGround crew load packages of the first shipment of Sinovac Biotech Ltd. …
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Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. CNN — Donald Trump’s allies in right-wing media have a problem ahead of CNN’s presidential debate: They’ve set the bar too low …
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Introduction QAnon has been described by the media and academics as a far-right extremist “big tent” conspiracy theory. Its name stems from its leader Q, who is believed to be a high-ranking government official with Q-Level security clearance, who posts information on a secret ongoing war between a …
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