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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.
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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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 …
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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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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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Conspiracy theories are often connected to religion; the past year has seen the rise of COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories among evangelical groups on social media, for example. To understand the connection between religion and conspiracy theories, we need to change the way we think about …
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Conspiracy theories are often connected to religion; the past year has seen the rise of COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories among evangelical groups on social media, for example. To understand the connection between religion and conspiracy theories, we need to change the way we think about …
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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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