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The idea that the Apollo 11 moon landing was faked
The 1969 moon landing? Fake. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Cuba really did it. Thomas Jefferson’s bitterly contested election in 1800? Choreographed by hidden hands.Political conspiracy theories have long found receptive audiences in the U.S., often on the fringes of society. …
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In elementary school, one of my favorite pastimes was to memorize world capitals. I’d spin the globe in my first-grade teacher’s classroom and point to countries around the world to see if I remembered the differences between Budapest and Bucharest, Tokyo and Kyoto, Macedonia and Mauritania. But, …
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Channing Tatum has weighed in on people who believe the earth is flat and people are praising him for keeping ‘it real’. The actor’s latest movie – Fly Me To The Moon – delves into one of the biggest conspiracy theories known to man, faking the moon landing. However, there’s one particular …
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One link. A click. A curious statement: what they don’t want you to know. It’s 2020 and Jess* is in her room, at the back of her parent’s terraced house in Hull, unaware that she’s about to fall down a rabbit hole. Before now she’s never heard of the social media app Telegram, or 4chan – an …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A former president is wounded in a shooting, the gunman quickly neutralized, and all of it is caught on camera. But for those who don’t believe their eyes, that’s just the start of the story.For some supporters of Donald Trump, the failure of the Secret Service to prevent the …
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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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As the sound of gunshots interrupted Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, the former US president clutched his right ear before squatting to the ground.Members of the Secret Service quickly surrounded Trump, who fiercely pumped his fist towards the crowd. It was during this …
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A historic lunar mission has demonstrated China’s growing scientific prowess, but the feat has set off a torrent of misinformation targeting the United States that researchers say reflects their bitter competition in space.China is celebrating the return of the Chang’e 6 probe to Earth on Tuesday …
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It is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines, his legions, his throng, and his security. If such a nonentity destroyed the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, then a world of disproportion engulfs us, and we live in a …
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I remember the day I first became acquainted with the notion of “chemtrails.” It was December 13, 2002, the day before I was to be a guest on Art Bell’s Coast to Coast, a very popular overnight radio show. I had just come out with my book The Genie in the Bottle, some chapters of which the producer …
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