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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.
That desired outcome has seen some significant success. That’s not primarily due to Russia, certainly, but it is to Russia’s benefit now as it engages in an effort to seize Ukraine. A divided America has political factions seeking unity with
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“Open your eyes,” the online post began, claiming, “Many in our govt worship Satan.” That warning, published on a freewheeling online message board in October 2017, was the beginning of the movement now known as QAnon. Paul Furber was its
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In 2007, Boris Johnson took a shot at Hillary Clinton, then a candidate for the Democratic US presidential nomination, in his Telegraph column. He wrote that Clinton’s eyes put him in mind of a “sadistic nurse in a mental hospital”
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In Mission, Texas, on the border between the US and Mexico, sits the National Butterfly Center. A 100-acre nature preserve once exclusively dedicated to the conservation of plants and wildlife, it has now been thrust into the national spotlight and
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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