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QAnon and related conspiracy theories like Pizzagate
QAnon. Pizzagate. Chemtrails. Conspiracy theories dominate much of the internet and form the rabid core of MAGA canon: That the January 6 insurrection was a “false flag” operation; that vaccines cause autism; and that the 2020 election was “rigged.” In the runup to his second campaign, Trump egged …
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On a gloomy Saturday morning this past May, a few months after entire blocks of Altadena, California, were destroyed by wildfires, several dozen survivors met at a local church to vent their built-up frustration, anger, blame, and anguish. As I sat there listening to one horror story after another, …
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The timing was eerie. On November 21, 1963, Richard Hofstadter delivered the annual Herbert Spencer Lecture at Oxford University. Hofstadter was a professor of American history at Columbia University who liked to use social psychology to explain political history, the better to defend liberalism …
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I first realized the extent of the internet’s takeover of U.S. politics while standing in the lobby of a drab hotel convention center, listening to an elderly gentleman rattle off a list of fringe conspiracy forums he frequented. “Prison Planet,” he told me, and “Infowars.” “Wow,” I said. In the …
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Representative Lauren Boebert, a MAGA lawmaker from Colorado, is raising eyebrows after her campaign sent an out-of-this-world fundraising email on Monday.In the email, Boebert’s re-election campaign accused the U.S. government of covering up UFOs and claimed the American people “deserve to know …
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The White House is defending Donald Trump for sharing an AI-generated video of himself promoting an alien-based ‘medbed’ conspiracy theory.On Saturday evening, Trump reposted a video of a fake Fox News segment hosted by his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, with him promoting ‘medbed hospitals’ and …
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President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video of himself promoting the baseless alien-based ‘medbed’ conspiracy theory – and the White House is defending him.Trump on Saturday evening re-posted on his Truth Social platform a video of a fake Fox News segment hosted by his daughter-in-law Lara …
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President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video of himself promoting the baseless alien-based ‘medbed’ conspiracy theory – and the White House is defending him.Trump on Saturday evening re-posted on his Truth Social platform a video of a fake Fox News segment hosted by his daughter-in-law Lara …
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Donald Trump stirred online outrage Monday after posting an apparent AI-generated video of himself promising every American access to all-healing “MedBed” hospitals, reviving a widely debunked conspiracy theory.The deepfake video — posted Saturday on the US president’s Truth Social account and …
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ToplinePresident Donald Trump shared and then deleted a seemingly AI-generated video in which he was seen promising Americans access to “medbeds” a fictional technology popular with some far-right conspiracy theorists who believe they secretly exist and hold miracle cures for every illness, and …
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