How the ‘paranoid style’ of American politics is causing problems for the Biden agenda

January 26, 2022 pizzagate, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from The London School of Economics and Political Science
How the ‘paranoid style’ of American politics is causing problems for the Biden agenda

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 …

Conspiracy

January 21, 2022 deep state, pizzagate

Archived 5 years ago from Penn Today
A novel theory on how conspiracy theories take shape

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 …

QAnon

January 16, 2022 2020 election, deep state, pizzagate

Archived 5 years ago from Financial Times
BBC’s Coming Storm podcast delves into QAnon’s origins

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 …

Revealed: The Billionaires Funding the Coup’s Brain Trust

Elections

January 12, 2022 2020 election, pizzagate

Archived 5 years ago from Rolling Stone
Revealed: The Billionaires Funding the Coup’s Brain Trust

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 …

Right-wing Catholic boomlet grows: “Gun Girl” signs up with Mother Church

Conspiracy

January 8, 2022 alex jones, great reset, maga, nazi, pizzagate

Archived 5 years ago from Salon
Right-wing Catholic boomlet grows: “Gun Girl” signs up with Mother Church

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 …

The week in audio: The Coming Storm; Now, Where Were We?; Gemma Cairney Gets Classical

QAnon

January 8, 2022 fredrick brennan, pizzagate

Archived 5 years ago from The Guardian
The week in audio: The Coming Storm; Now, Where Were We?; Gemma Cairney Gets Classical

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 …

Conspiracy

December 20, 2021 2020 election, 9/11, alex jones, marjorie taylor greene, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from The Fulcrum
How conspiracy theories became more personal, more cruel and more mainstream after the Sandy Hook shootings

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 …

QAnon

December 16, 2021 adrenochrome, deep state, epstein, pizzagate

Archived 5 years ago from The Washington Post
A QAnon con: How the viral Wayfair sex trafficking lie hurt real kids

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 …

Conspiracy

December 14, 2021 2020 election, 9/11, alex jones, marjorie taylor greene, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from UConn
How Conspiracy Theories in the US Became More Personal, Cruel, and Mainstream After Sandy Hook – UConn Today

Conspiracy theories are powerful forces in the U.S. 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 January 2021. These conspiracy theories are part of a dangerous misinformation crisis that has …

Conspiracy

December 13, 2021 2020 election, 9/11, alex jones, marjorie taylor greene, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Sandy Hook Anniversary: Conspiracy theories are worse and more mainstream than ever | Opinion

By Amanda J. Crawford Conspiracy theories are powerful forces in the U.S. 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 January 2021. These conspiracy theories are part of a dangerous …

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