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It’s totally cool with Rep. Michael McCaul that conspiracy peddler Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been placed on the Homeland Security Committee. “She’s matured,” McCaul said when confronted with the fact that Greene spouted 9/11 conspiracy theories as recently as 2018, when she was 44 years old. …
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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email A 9/11 survivor has condemned the appointment of Majorie Taylor Greene to a key House security committee – pointing out the Republican congresswoman long …
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Greene has peddled numerous false and unfounded conspiracy theories on her social media over the years. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far right Republican from Georgia who has pushed several unfounded conspiracy theories in the past, was appointed to two key committee assignments this …
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If you decide to take a healthy constitutional this afternoon and during your walk happen upon a rabbit hole, it might be worth taking a quick look inside. It seems to me highly likely that the Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen will be squatting there on his haunches, jabbering to himself about all …
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Comment on this story Comment Gift Article Here’s the latest installment of a regular feature I’ve been running for several years: lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy Project (NLP), which aims to teach students and the public how to sort fact from fiction in our digital — and contentious — …
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“Libs of TikTok” founder and anti-LGBTQ bigot Chaya Raichik appeared yesterday on QAnon conspiracy theorist DeAnna Lorraine’s show to attack LGBTQ people. Raichik’s Libs of TikTok is a Twitter account with 1.7 million followers that constantly demeans, attacks, and pushes disinformation about the …
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January 10, 2023 “Today, House Republicans voted to form a select subcommittee to investigate deep state conspiracy theories. Make no mistake: This bogus committee is designed to undermine the legitimate investigation of President Trump’s incitement of a violent attack on the Capitol – an …
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QAnon influencers and other conspiracy theorists reacted with glee after supporters of Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brazil on Sunday. In a case with striking similarities to the January 6 U.S. Capitol riots two years ago, hardline backers of far-right former president Bolsonaro …
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Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Most stories about the increase in antisemitism now focus on events like Donald Trump’s infamous Mar-a-Lago dinner with Kanye West and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. I certainly would not underestimate Ye’s influence but I would look to other places in explaining …
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In his new book Fake Believe Dylan Reeve unpicks how a celebrity chef-turned-wellness-influencer fell down the Covid conspiracy rabbit-hole. Pete Evans was a familiar face to many as one of the hosts of the Australian cooking reality show My Kitchen Rules. Since the mid-90s Evans had been a chef …
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