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QAnon and related conspiracy theories like Pizzagate
Accounts on X are claiming Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect charged in an alleged plot to assassinate Donald Trump, was filmed days earlier attending a Kamala Harris rally in North Carolina. But the claims rely on a blurry video; the original, higher-resolution footage, obtained by AFP, clearly …
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — QAnon-aligned voices of the far right are threatening retaliation against a judge, a district attorney and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents for their roles in the recent raids of the Millersville Police Department and the residence of conspiracy-minded Assistant …
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Last week, we, hopefully as a nation, marked the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington D.C. Please also never forget the folks who lost their lives in the Pennsylvania crash of United Flight 93. In the days, weeks, even months that followed those attacks — …
Read MorePro-Trump demonstrators gathered for a “Stop the Steal” protest in Las Vegas in 2020. After his loss in the 2020 presidential election, former president Donald Trump and some of his supporters claimed, without evidence, that there had been widespread fraud.BRIDGET BENNETT/NYTDonald Trump latched …
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Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist who posted last year that 9/11 was an “inside job,” joined Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in New York and Pennsylvania on Wednesday as he commemorated the anniversary of the attacks.The 31-year-old provocateur and influencer posted photos from …
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Conspiracy. Just saying the word in conversation can make people politely edge away, looking for someone who won’t corner them with wild theories about how Elvis, John F. Kennedy and Bigfoot are cryogenically frozen in an underground bunker.Conspiracies are sometimes real. The Watergate break-in is …
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This funny line is from The Rise of BlueAnon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists, a forthcoming book by the political writer David Harsanyi. The Rise of BlueAnon is one of the most important political books of the decade. It’s also one of the saddest, exploring how a …
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Conspiracy theories and disinformation spread rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Hollie Adams/Getty Researchers have shown that artificial intelligence (AI) could be a valuable tool in the fight against conspiracy theories, by designing a chatbot that can debunk false information and get …
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Conspiracy theorists are claiming Vice President Kamala Harris wore pearl earrings with secret built-in speakers to cheat during last night’s debate with former President Donald Trump. The unfounded allegation was especially popular among followers of QAnon, the long-running conspiracy theory that …
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This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become. “The Great Depression was pretty well planned.” —Sen. Ron Johnson, when asked about the national debt on a conservative radio show in early …
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