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Pizzagate is a conspiracy theory regarding a pedophilia ring linked to members of the Democratic Party, and the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C.
MISSION, Texas (TEXAS TRIBUNE) – A South Texas butterfly sanctuary has closed after it was the target of conspiracy theories that escalated into credible threats. The National Butterfly Center, along the U.S.-Mexico border in Mission, has long been the target of QAnon conspiracy theories falsely …
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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A South Texas butterfly sanctuary has closed after it was the target of conspiracy theories that escalated into credible threats. The National Butterfly Center, along the U.S.-Mexico border …
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As US politics becomes increasingly polarized, many Republicans are basing their opposition to Democratic policies not on evidence, but on paranoia-fuelled concerns about changes to their way of life, writes Will Ranger. He comments that many conservatives are embracing a ‘paranoid style’ of …
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How do people come to believe in conspiracy theories? It’s a question Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Dolores Albarracín has been thinking about for decades. “I grew up in Argentina in the ’70s, during the Dirty War that eventually led to the disappearance of 30,000 Argentines. The …
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Few fringe movements have captured the imagination of podcast-makers as much as QAnon, the online gathering of conspiracy theorists that has inched dangerously towards the mainstream. Following a glut of series in both the US and UK, the BBC has now got in on the act with The Coming Storm, in which …
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The Claremont Institute, once a little-known think tank often confused with the liberal-arts college of the same name, has emerged as a driving force in the conservative movement’s crusade to use bogus fraud claims about the 2020 election to rewrite voting laws and remake the election system in …
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In early December, Kaitlin Bennett, the 20-something far-right provocateur known as “Kent State Gun Girl,” who has made a career out of recording herself antagonizing liberal college students, issued a new set of self-mythologizing images. In a wordless four-minute video that begins with the sound …
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The Coming Storm (BBC Radio 4/World Service) | BBC SoundsNow, Where Were We? with Barry Cryer and Bob Cryer (Acast)Gemma Cairney Gets Classical (Scala Radio) | scalaradio.co.uk Excuse me for a moment. I’ve just finished binge-listening to The Coming Storm, the new seven-episode BBC series about …
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Crawford is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut. Conspiracy theories are powerful forces in the United States. They have damaged public health amid a global pandemic, shaken faith in the democratic process and helped spark a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in …
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The real Samara Duplessis was sprawled across her comforter, her thumb on Instagram. Summer could drag on in the Detroit suburbs, and the summer of 2020 — her eighth-grade graduation reduced to Zoom, her whole world masked and anxious — was already the most boring of them all. But it felt even more …
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