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QAnon and related conspiracy theories like Pizzagate
In Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy (Viking), historian Colin Dickey argues that “a paranoia of secret, subversive societies, is not just peripheral to the functioning of democracy, but at its very heart.” Dickey chronologically traces the various …
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It’s yet to be determined what exactly ignited the ferocious wildfires that ravaged Maui and destroyed much of the historic town of Lahaina last week, but online conspiracy theorists have plenty of thoughts about how — and why — the deadliest fires in Hawaii’s history were started. Conditions were …
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Two new studies describe a couple sources of the COVID-19 “infodemic” on social media: US physicians and proponents and practitioners of “doing your own research.”Vaccine untruths, conspiracy theories A mixed-methods study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open finds that 52 physicians practicing …
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Tucker Carlson and 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued to spread a conspiracy theory that the United States is creating bioweapons in Ukraine. The theory gained traction during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, when the Kremlin attempted to justify it’s invasion of …
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Recent polls show New Zealand First on track for a return to Parliament. As the party increasingly courts the so-called “freedom movement”, the digital footprint of some of its could-be parliamentarians may cause headaches. For several years, a user currently named “Polly” has been pumping the …
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The ’70s were the perfect time to be paranoid: rumors of government-sanctioned assassinations here and abroad, second-gunman theories around dead presidents, whispers of elite secret societies pulling strings, that whole Watergate thing. It wafted in the air like yesterday’s tear gas. The movies …
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Social media users are claiming lasers started the deadly wildfires that scorched a historic town in the US state of Hawaii in August 2023. But various images shared online are from other events, and there is no evidence that directed energy weapons are to blame for the flames; the National Weather …
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US congressional hearings can be dry affairs but not of late. First there was Robert Kennedy Jr, purveyor of disinformation about vaccines and much else, testifying about big tech censorship. Then David Grusch, a former intelligence officer, claiming that the government knows more than it admits …
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By Inform (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements) 7th August 2023 In InsightsThis series of Insights draws on the GNET report by Inform: ‘Cults and Online Violent Extremism’. Inform are an independent educational charity providing information about minority religions and sects which is …
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How do we account for the unfortunate phenomenon that is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? Blessed at birth with the noblest of American political names, he has, at age 69, launched a pernicious Democratic primary challenge to Joe Biden fueled by conspiracy theories. In the R.F.K. Jr. worldview, vaccine …
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