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QAnon and related conspiracy theories like Pizzagate

It’s been a week for Trump conspiracy theories. Here’s how to teach students to identify them — and more news literacy lessons.
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Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
It’s been a week for Trump conspiracy theories. Here’s how to teach students to identify them — and more news literacy lessons.

The material comes from the project’s newsletter, the Sift, which takes the most recent viral rumors, conspiracy theories, hoaxes and journalistic ethics issues and turns them into timely lessons with discussion prompts and links. The Sift, which is published weekly during the school year, has more …

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The pandemic is amplifying the U.S. anti-vaccine movement — and globalizing it
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Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
The pandemic is amplifying the U.S. anti-vaccine movement — and globalizing it

By Emily Rauhala, Daniel Leal-Olivas AFP/Getty Images Demonstrators protesting vaccination and government restrictions to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus clash with police officers at Trafalgar Square in London on Sept. 19. A nephew of President John F. Kennedy rallied a German crowd …

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Making sense of sorts of conspiracy jargon
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Archived 6 years ago from The Australian Financial Review
Making sense of sorts of conspiracy jargon

The QAnon conspiracy theory claims that President Donald Trump is waging a secret war against high-profile Satan-worshipping paedophiles. It surfaced in October 2017 when a mysterious person calling themselves “Q” began posting cryptic messages on internet message boards. These messages, often …

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Facebook’s new QAnon strategy: Remove conspiracy group’s presence from any pages, groups and Instagram accounts
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Archived 6 years ago from USA TODAY
Facebook’s new QAnon strategy: Remove conspiracy group’s presence from any pages, groups and Instagram accounts

Facebook said Tuesday it is escalating the campaign against QAnon, pledging to remove any Facebook pages, groups and Instagram accounts aligned with the conspiracy group. Until now, Facebook only said it would take action against QAnon activity containing discussions about potential violence. That …

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From COVID-19 to voting: Trump is nation’s single largest spreader of disinformation, studies say
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Archived 6 years ago from USA TODAY
From COVID-19 to voting: Trump is nation’s single largest spreader of disinformation, studies say

Is President Trump the nation’s chief disinformation officer? Controversial posts concerning COVID-19 on Monday in which the president tells the public “Don’t let it dominate you” and “Don’t be afraid of it” and claims he may have immunity to the deadly virus have heightened public criticism of …

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Judicial Watch files lawsuit against state over voter rolls, but it’s misleading, expert says
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Archived 6 years ago from coloradopolitics.com
Judicial Watch files lawsuit against state over voter rolls, but it’s misleading, expert says

The conservative group Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit against Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold over claims that Colorado has more voters than it has people. But the lawsuit lacks merit on a number of fronts, according to attorney Christopher Jackson of Holland & Hart. The lawsuit was …

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Sex-trafficking survivors say QAnon conspiracy theories cause damage
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Archived 6 years ago from Insider
Sex-trafficking survivors say QAnon conspiracy theories cause damage

Christy Croft, a sex-trafficking survivor and activist, was scrolling through social media in July when they came across a debunked conspiracy theory claiming that the furniture company Wayfair was selling kidnapped children. At the time, hundreds of thousands of people on social media were …

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Disinformation 2020: Journalists discuss foreign meddling, conspiracy theories, and Trump
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Archived 6 years ago from The Hub at Johns Hopkins
Disinformation 2020: Journalists discuss foreign meddling, conspiracy theories, and Trump

By Katie Pearce / Published Oct 5, 2020 Though Americans may be more savvy about disinformation now than they were in 2016, the influences manipulating our media have become more normalized and rampant, a panel of journalists warned during a Johns Hopkins University event Friday. “Everybody’s at it …

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False coronavirus claims and rumours about Trump
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Archived 6 years ago from BBC News
False coronavirus claims and rumours about Trump

Image copyright Reuters President Trump’s treatment for Covid-19 has spawned baseless rumours and conspiracy theories – about body doubles, oxygen tanks and more. Many appear to be politically motivated and conflicting information from the White House over the weekend hasn’t helped. Officials gave …

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