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Amazon’s book recommendation algorithms that help customers discover new titles may have a dark side. A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue says these algorithms steer people to books about conspiracy theories and extremism, sometimes introducing them to the work of conspiracy …
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Supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory were implicated in the January 6th storming of the capitol. Former supporters have even been elected to Congress. Is conspiracy thinking on the rise? Has it taken over the Republican Party? Joseph Uscinski finds little evidence that conspiracy theory …
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One year ago, Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The NBA suspended its season. About 1,000 Americans were infected, and the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. Today, more than 500,000 Americans are dead from COVID-19. The country is …
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The nod to Covaxin raises many eyebrows The approval from India’s drug regulator to Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech’s vaccine candidate Covaxin has raised many eyebrows. This report in The Quint highlights some of the questions being raised by medical experts. The DCGI said that the expert panel of …
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Bill Gates became a supervillain, arson was blamed for catastrophic bushfires and dead people were said to have cast votes in the US presidential election: never before has there been a year so polluted by misinformation as has 2020. When the director-general of the World Health Organisation …
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Many Americans must have been scared and scarred by repeated viewing of “The X-Files” 20 years ago. How else to explain the widespread societal reticence, conspiracy theories and flat-out zaniness surrounding opposition to an imminent coronavirus vaccine? I’m not talking about normal caution …
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We were already living in the age of conspiracy when March came. Across the world, businesses closed. People went home. And there, they consumed media. Most binged Netflix. Others were radicalized — sometimes within weeks — by algorithms driving them deeper and deeper into the internet’s darkest …
Read MoreQAnon, the baseless far-right conspiracy theory, has jumped from anonymous message boards into the mainstream — even finding its way into the world of yoga. Yogis’ interest in the conspiracy-theory movement, which is focused on the notion that a “deep state” cabal of child traffickers runs the …
Read MoreQAnon, the baseless far-right conspiracy theory, has jumped from anonymous message boards into the mainstream — it’s even found its way into the world of yoga. Yogis’ interest in the conspiracy-theory movement, which is focused on the notion that a “deep state” cabal of child traffickers runs the …
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Anti-vaxxers have seized on the promising results of a new coronavirus vaccine, attempting to discredit the Pfizer/BioNTech development on social media within hours of it being announced. After the news broke that interim analysis suggested the vaccine had 90% effectiveness, “Bill Gates” began …
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