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QAnon and related conspiracy theories like Pizzagate
While the speed and reach of these theories is new thanks to social media, we have been here before. Indeed, the United States has a long history of conspiratorial thinking — from obsessions with the Masons and the Illuminati in the 19th century to the recent tea party movement and the birtherism …
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As the world continues to battle the coronavirus, it is also fighting a different sort of epidemic: misinformation. This “infodemic” is just as harmful as COVID-19 itself, leading people to downplay the severity of the disease and ignore public health advice in favor of unproved treatments or …
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Republican-backed congressional candidate and right-wing commentator Marjorie Taylor Greene is both a QAnon supporter and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. In previously unreported remarks, Greene discussed the September 11 attacks and said that there was “the so-called plane that crashed into the …
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TOPLINE Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Trump-endorsed small business woman and adherent of the unfounded QAnon conspiracy theory running as the GOP nominee for a safely Republican U.S. House seat in Georgia, espoused a 9/11 conspiracy theory in a 2018 interview. ASSOCIATED PRESS KEY FACTS Shortly after …
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Opinion U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t the only one who frequently favours fiction over facts. In Canada, experts warn baseless COVID-19 conspiracy theories — for example, that the virus is being spread to cover up the effects of 5G wireless technology — are creating “a public health crisis.” …
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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – JULY 04 : A woman holds a banner during a protest against 5G (the fifth generation technology standard for cellular networks) infrastructure investments at Central Station in Brussels, Belgium on July 04, 2020. Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images It’s a perfect storm …
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Celebrity sells – it always has. But in the digital age, the boundaries of celebrity have changed. Once it was the prerogative of movie, sports or music stars to front a fashion label or promote perfume. But nowadays the marketplace is saturated with any number of online lifestyle and wellness …
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Election 2020 The embattled MP from Botany has joined up his party with the conspiracy theory-driven New Zealand Public Party, allowing the latter a plausible path to Parliament, Marc Daalder reports Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross has joined his nascent political party to a would-be party led by a man …
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BuzzFeed News; AP Images Editors’ note: This story has been updated to more clearly attribute phrasing from work previously published in Type Investigations, HuffPost, Pacific Standard, and BuzzFeed News. On May 14, Italian politician Sara Cunial uploaded a video to her Facebook profile calling …
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A new study by UCLA professors offers a new way to understand how unfounded conspiracy theories emerge online. The research, which combines sophisticated artificial intelligence and a deep knowledge of how folklore is structured, explains how unrelated facts and false information can connect into a …
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