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TORONTO — Misinformation and conspiracy theories can sometimes seem as rampant online as genuine news. And while media outlets and health officials have worked to debunk and disprove many of them—as with the World Health Organization’s “Mythbusters” page—people close to
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By Reuters Staff 5 Min Read A photo with over 1,400 shares on Facebook as of Sept. 9, 2020, shows a poster with a conspiracy theory about the COVID-19 pandemic. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS The post (here) on a Facebook
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Kelly Ferro is a busy mom on her way to the post office: leather mini-backpack, brunet topknot, turquoise pedicure with a matching ombré manicure. A hairdresser from Kenosha, Wis., Ferro didn’t vote in 2016 but has since become a strong
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It began as a freelance job. Micah Conrad would wake up midmorning, check his email and begin downloading videos that had arrived while he slept. He would brew coffee, drinking it on the narrow patio of the small apartment he
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Image copyright FACEBOOK/LOUISEHAMPTON83 Image caption Ms Hampton said in the video her service “was dead” during the pandemic A worker at a major NHS provider is under investigation by her employer for posting a video on social media in which
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A new study based on Twitter activity related to the 2018-19 flu season found tweets that express concerns about vaccines were associated with negative attitudes about flu vaccinations. The findings, published by the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center,
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The claim: The Gates family is behind a sprawling conspiracy to control the world through vaccines, engineered COVID-19 pandemic “Plandemic: Indoctornation,” the misinformation-filled video that debuted online Aug. 18, draws numerous high-profile figures into its plot. Chief among them is
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Earlier this year, I published a lesson for teachers from the Sift to use in class to explore with students the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that President Trump will save the world from a “deep state” cult of pedophiles
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You may have heard the false claim that wearing masks is harmful. Or the false conspiracy theory that Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is part of the “Deep State.” Virologist Judy
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The claim: The coronavirus pandemic is planned and profit-seeking, including by the CDC and NIH A new video — entitled “Plandemic II: Indoctornation” — has spread online and on Facebook since Aug. 18, proliferating a baseless conspiracy theory about the nature of the coronavirus pandemic.
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