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QAnon and related conspiracy theories like Pizzagate
Quebec’s best-known conspiracy theorist, Alexis Cossette-Trudel, lost another media platform on Thursday when YouTube shut down his account, which had more than 120,000 subscribers. YouTube said it was removing Cossette-Trudel’s channel, Radio-Québec, for “repeatedly violating our community …
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YouTube today joined social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter in taking more direct action to prohibit the distribution of conspiracy theories like QAnon. The company announced that it is expanding its hate and harassment policies to ban videos “that [target] an individual or group with …
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YouTube is cracking down on videos displaying “harmful conspiracy theories” as social platforms continue to grapple with the spread of misinformation and hate. The Google-owned streaming company will now prohibit content that targets a person or group with “conspiracy theories that have been used …
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QAnon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the string instrument, see Qanun (instrument). American far-right conspiracy theory US Vice President Mike Pence with members of the SWAT team of Broward County, Florida, on November 30, 2018; the man on the left of the image is displaying a red and …
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A protestor holds a sign during a “Save our Children” rally outside Downing Street in London, England. Conspiracy theorists have recently coopted #SaveTheChildren to find new followers. Hollie Adams/Hollie Adams/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hollie Adams/Hollie Adams/Getty Images A …
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Mark Zuckerberg has clearly had enough of being hauled in front of Congress and hectored by a gang of senior citizens and listening to the head of the ACLU slam his company as a vessel for violent hate speech. Because over the past few months, Facebook has done a complete 180 on its position about …
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In the spring of 2020, while the world stayed indoors to suppress Covid-19, arsonists attacked mobile phone masts in Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand. They set fire to nearly a hundred masts in the UK, or tried to; …
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The claim: Judge Amy Coney Barrett equated breastfeeding to child molestation In her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, Judge Amy Coney Barrett — President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court — has had her share of quotable moments. On Tuesday, for example, she …
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Up to a third of people in certain countries may believe coronavirus misinformation and in turn be less open to immunisation, scientists said Wednesday, warning that development of a vaccine “might not be enough”. Researchers in Britain and the Netherlands conducted surveys in the UK, United …
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it certainly seems like a week of re-consideration at Facebook. Following yesterday’s announcement of a ban on Holocaust denial content, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg had infamously said he would allow back in 2018, on the grounds of free speech, today, Facebook has announced a new policy which will …
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