Under the influence: Peddling conspiracy in a pandemic

August 3, 2020 5g, china, deep state, maga, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from The Interpreter
Under the influence: Peddling conspiracy in a pandemic

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 …

Conspiracy

July 26, 2020 5g, alex jones, antivax, david icke, fluoridation, great reset, qanon

Archived 6 years ago from Newsroom
Jami-Lee Ross hitches wagon to conspiracy theorists

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 …

Bill Gates Conspiracy Theories Have Circulated For Years. It Took The Coronavirus Pandemic To Turn Him Into A Fake Villain.

COVID-19

June 28, 2020 5g, alex jones, antivax, bill gates, cdc, china, deep state, fauci, george soros, illuminati, qanon, tuskegee experiment

Archived 6 years ago from Buzzfeed News
Bill Gates Conspiracy Theories Have Circulated For Years. It Took The Coronavirus Pandemic To Turn Him Into A Fake Villain.

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 …

Conspiracy

June 25, 2020 5g, antivax, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 6 years ago from UCLA Newsroom
How conspiracy theories emerge – and how their storylines fall apart

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 …

The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to Far-Right Crusaders

Vaccines

June 18, 2020 5g, bill gates, covid19, maga, qanon, rfk jr

Archived 6 years ago from Mother Jones
The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to Far-Right Crusaders

For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. When the pandemic hit, many American parents found themselves muddling through homeschooling for the first time—but Elizabeth Beall is an old pro: She’s been teaching her …

Conspiracy

June 11, 2020 5g, 9/11, antivax, bill gates, covid19, flat earth, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from The Conversation UK
THE CONVERSATION – Why we should not treat all conspiracy theories the same

Ever since the coronavirus spread across the world, suspicions have proliferated about what is really going on. Questions arose about the origins of the virus, the way it makes people sick, the mitigation measures taken, the suspended civil rights, the connection with 5G, possible cures and …

Conspiracy

June 11, 2020 5g, 9/11, antivax, bill gates, covid19, flat earth, qanon

Archived 6 years ago from The Conversation UK
Why we should not treat all conspiracy theories the same

Conspiracy

June 11, 2020 5g, alex jones, antivax, big tech, bill gates, china, covid19, deep state, george soros, pizzagate, plandemic video, qanon

Archived 3 years ago from The Conversation
Four experts investigate how the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory began

In times of crisis conspiracy theories can spread as fast as a virus. As the coronavirus pandemic tightened its grip on a world which struggled to comprehend the enormity of the situation it was facing, darker forces were concocting their own narratives. Scientists and researchers were working – …

June 9, 2020 qanon

Archived 5 years ago from BuzzFeed News
Twitter Is Now Fact-Checking 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Tweets

BuzzFeed News has reporters around the world bringing you trustworthy stories about the impact of the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today. Twitter has started putting a fact-checking label on tweets that link the coronavirus …

How Bill Gates became the voodoo doll of Covid conspiracies

COVID-19

June 5, 2020 antivax, big tech, bill gates, qanon

Archived 1 year ago from BBC News
How Bill Gates became the voodoo doll of Covid conspiracies

18 June 2020ShareSaveJack GoodmanBBC Reality CheckShareSaveBBCResearching viruses in farm animals is essential rather than glamorous work, and The Pirbright Institute in Surrey excels at it. But recently they’ve been getting some very unwanted attention. For months they’ve been unwittingly drawn …

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