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Lies, disinformation and conspiracy theories are increasingly being embraced as acceptable political strategy, AP investigation finds
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Archived 6 years ago from MarketWatch
Lies, disinformation and conspiracy theories are increasingly being embraced as acceptable political strategy, AP investigation finds

A faction of local, county and state Republican officials is pushing lies, misinformation and conspiracy theories that echo those that helped inspire the violent U.S. Capitol siege, online messaging that is spreading quickly through GOP ranks fueled by algorithms that boost extreme content. “ The …

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Trump allies banned from Twitter still spreading QAnon, election fraud conspiracies there
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Archived 6 years ago from USA TODAY
Trump allies banned from Twitter still spreading QAnon, election fraud conspiracies there

They’re banned but not gone. Key allies of former president Donald Trump, who were expelled from Twitter after the Capitol riot, are still getting their messages heard there. Trump lawyers Lin Wood and Sidney Powell and pardoned former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who pushed …

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The conspiracy business: How to make money with fake news
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Archived 6 years ago from Deutsche Welle
The conspiracy business: How to make money with fake news

All advertising is in some sense a form of falsification. But while once the message probably had an actual thing — a car or a hamburger, perhaps — to sell, today the message itself is often the product. “The source of value is the watching labor performed by the audience — this after all is the …

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Behind the Nashville bombing, a conspiracy theorist stewing about the government
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Archived 6 years ago from Chattanooga Times Free Press
Behind the Nashville bombing, a conspiracy theorist stewing about the government

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Crystal Deck was opening presents on Christmas morning at her brother’s home when she heard the news that an enormous explosion had ripped through the historic heart of Nashville. She knew instantly that the bomber was her dearest friend, Anthony Q. Warner, and quickly began …

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Tucker Carlson’s ‘we could not find’ QAnon comment was worse than it appears
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Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
Tucker Carlson’s ‘we could not find’ QAnon comment was worse than it appears

Stripped of context, it’s a nonsensical claim. There is probably not any actual individual who is “Q,” the anonymous source of various random allegations and cryptic comments that serve as the basis of the quasi-religious conspiracy theory QAnon. But there’s no question that the QAnon movement …

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Can Cult Studies Offer Help With QAnon? The Science Is Thin.
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Archived 6 years ago from Undark Magazine
Can Cult Studies Offer Help With QAnon? The Science Is Thin.

Days before the inauguration of President Joe Biden, at a time when some Americans were animated by the false conviction that former President Donald J. Trump had actually won the November election, a man in Colorado began texting warnings to his family. The coming days, he wrote, would be “the …

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Nashville Bomber Anthony Warner Was a Conspiracy Theorist
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Archived 6 years ago from The New York Times
Nashville Bomber Anthony Warner Was a Conspiracy Theorist

NASHVILLE — Crystal Deck was opening presents on Christmas morning at her brother’s home when she heard the news that an enormous explosion had ripped through the historic heart of Nashville. She knew instantly that the bomber was her dearest friend, Anthony Q. Warner, and quickly began fitting …

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Nashville Bomber Anthony Warner Was a Conspiracy Theorist
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Archived 6 years ago from The New York Times
Behind the Nashville Bombing, a Conspiracy Theorist Stewing About the Government

NASHVILLE — Crystal Deck was opening presents on Christmas morning at her brother’s home when she heard the news that an enormous explosion had ripped through the historic heart of Nashville. She knew instantly that the bomber was her dearest friend, Anthony Q. Warner, and quickly began fitting …

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How the wellness and influencer crowd serve conspiracies to the masses
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Archived 5 years ago from The Guardian
How the wellness and influencer crowd serve conspiracies to the masses

In August last year, Matt Lawson, a Melbourne-based conspiracy theorist and anti-5G activist linked to the group that helped organise the city’s anti-lockdown protests last year, held one of his regular YouTube gabfests. The guests were mostly the usual crowd. The former celebrity chef Pete Evans …

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Jill Richardson: Education Won’t Stop Conspiracy Theories
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Archived 6 years ago from YubaNet
Jill Richardson: Education Won’t Stop Conspiracy Theories

advertisement February 23, 2021 – Conspiracy theories like QAnon are outlandish, dangerous, and often absurd. So why do people believe them? Some say it’s a lack of education. “They can do QAnon, or they can do college-educated voters,” Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) said about Republicans. “They …

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