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QAnon and related conspiracy theories like Pizzagate
Washington (AFP) – Climate change-denying social media accounts are exploiting the deadly wildfires in Hawaii to push conspiracy theories that high-energy lasers were used to spark the flames. Issued on: 19/08/2023 – 03:12Modified: 19/08/2023 – 03:11 3 min Advertising Read more Posts invoking such …
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Arizona took the stage at Mike Lindell’s election conspiracy conference this week, as a former GOP legislator and a local election denialist made a litany of fact-free claims about supposed malfeasance in the state’s elections — all while the leader of the Maricopa County Republican Party watched …
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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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Oliver Anthony, real name Christopher Lunsford, made waves when a number of conservative influencers shared his video for “Rich Men North of Richmond” on Aug. 10 on Twitter. The lyrics in his hit song have earned him plaudits as a working-class hero, where he calls out Washington, D.C. and the …
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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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