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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.
There was no text on ‘drop’ 4953, posted around a month after the previous message, just a link to a music YouTube video. For a movement ignited by lengthy and byzantine clues, the final Q message, released exactly a year ago, felt like an anticlimax. The final Q Drop, posted a year ago today Nor …
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Over the past four years, QAnon (aka a set of unfounded fringe internet conspiracy theories) gained a huge following from America’s far-right. But it wasn’t until 2020 that it made its way into mainstream culture. Now we’ve heard it mentioned in headlines, documentaries, and even in Congress. …
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The graphic testimony presented to jurors in Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal sex abuse trial last week seemed at times to mesh and then detach from broader theories – criminal, conspiratorial or both – about the nature of Jeffrey Epstein’s world. Whether prosecutors and defense attorneys are …
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Translations: The posts boast of uncovering an incident of child abuse in southern Germany and the seemingly suspicious use of military aircraft in the north and west of the country. Others detail a conspiracy to manipulate significant weather events. Impressively, all that was required to reveal …
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has perhaps inspired more conspiracy theories than any other event in recent memory. While other conspiracy theories resulted in vast swathes of misinformation spreading across the internet, most of these theories were limited to the West. The global nature of …
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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) blasted those who are spreading conspiracy theories about the January 6th insurrection — that the violence that day was a “false flag” operation — as “un-American” and “very dangerous.” “It’s the same kind of thing you hear from people who say 9/11 was an inside job, for …
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The City of Vancouver has suspended a restaurateur’s business licence until December 31 after it repeatedly refused to ask patrons for proof of vaccination. In response to this, Corduroy owner Rebecca Matthews says that she may launch litigation against the City of Vancouver to get it back sooner …
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Southwest Airlines had an absolute fiasco of a weekend, cancelling thousands of flights. Conservatives ran with evidence-free rumors about anti-vaccine mandate employee walkouts. For culture warriors, some conspiracy theory narratives are just too good to fact-check. This is an opinion column. …
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Like many Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Dona Sue Bissey has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory on social media. But the judge sentencing her Tuesday to 14 days in jail said it was for her actions, not her beliefs. Bissey, 53, pleaded guilty in July to parading, …
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The English physician Edward Jenner demonstrated that a child could be inoculated from smallpox by using lymph from a cowpox blister in 1798, and there was immediate opposition to the practice. Riots broke out in a number of British cities during the 1832 epidemic, and the Anti Vaccination League …
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