PA House candidate Banta amplifies election, COVID conspiracies online

October 17, 2022 2020 election, antivax, bill gates, china, fauci, ivermectin, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from GoErie.com
PA House candidate Banta amplifies election, COVID conspiracies online

Jake Banta, the Republican candidate running to replace state Rep. Curt Sonney in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, says he wants to protect constitutional rights, restore confidence in elections, address record inflation and get people back to work. He says he’s a “common sense” …

Is Alex Jones verdict the death of disinformation? Unlikely

Conspiracy

October 17, 2022 2020 election, alex jones, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from Associated Press
Is Alex Jones verdict the death of disinformation? Unlikely

NEW YORK (AP) — A Connecticut jury’s ruling this week ordering Alex Jones to pay $965 million to parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims he maligned was heartening for people disgusted by the muck of disinformation. Just don’t expect it to make conspiracy theories go away. The appetite for such …

Is Alex Jones verdict the death of disinformation? – FOX 8 Local First

Conspiracy

October 14, 2022 2020 election, alex jones, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from FOX 8 WVUE-TV
Is Alex Jones verdict the death of disinformation? – FOX 8 Local First

State Rep. Rob Chase’s re-election effort is full of conspiracies

Conspiracy

October 14, 2022 2020 election, ivermectin, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from Crosscut
State Rep. Rob Chase’s re-election effort is full of conspiracies

Chase also argues that if the 2020 election were fair, then elections officials wouldn’t have a problem with auditing it. Washington already conducts post-election audits. This is where discussions of the 2020 election move past a good-faith debate and start to become dangerous, said Alex …

Elections

October 13, 2022 2020 election, mike lindell, qanon, trump

Archived 4 years ago from Center for Responsive Politics
America First Secretary of State Coalition boosts Trump-aligned election deniers vying to oversee elections • OpenSecrets

State Rep. Mark Finchem, Republican nominee for Arizona secretary of state, at a campaign rally attended by former President Donald Trump in Mesa, Ariz. on Oct. 9, 2022. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) The America First Secretary of State Coalition, a coalition of Republican candidates touting …

Great Reset

October 11, 2022 covid19, depopulation, monkeypox, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from PolitiFact
The Great Reset is not a conspiracy to force changes in economic systems

PolitiFact | The Great Reset is not a conspiracy to force changes in economic systems The Great Reset advocates replacing capitalism with an economic system that is “kind of socialism, kind of communism” but “mostly just fascism.” The Great Reset is not a conspiracy to force changes in economic …

Granola and Guns: The Rise of Conspirituality

Conspiracy

October 7, 2022 antivax, maga, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from McGill Newsroom
Granola and Guns: The Rise of Conspirituality

I was interviewed by many journalists in 2020 about the pandemic, and the question they kept asking me was some version of, “What exactly is going on here?” They were not clueless about COVID-19. Rather, they were trying to make sense of a strange fraternization they were witnessing in the middle …

AG Ken Paxton, other Republicans push debunked “2000 Mules” film

Elections

October 7, 2022 2020 election, qanon, sidney powell

Archived 4 years ago from The Texas Tribune
AG Ken Paxton, other Republicans push debunked “2000 Mules” film

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Top Texas Republicans have been key promoters of “2000 Mules,” a debunked film by GOP political operative Dinesh D’Souza that falsely claims there was significant voter fraud during the 2020 …

Over half the GOP candidates running in 2022 are election deniers

Elections

October 6, 2022 2020 election, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from The Washington Post
Over half the GOP candidates running in 2022 are election deniers

Listen 13 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article A majority of Republican nominees on the ballot this November for the House, Senate and key statewide offices — 299 in all — have denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election, according to a Washington Post analysis. …

Conspiracy

October 5, 2022 alex jones, bill gates, flat earth, marjorie taylor greene, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from VOGUE India
11 popular conspiracy theories in recent history

A few weeks after Podesta’s emails were leaked and “Pizzagate” started gaining traction online, a 28-year-old man walked into the northwest Washington pizzeria with an AR-15 rifle. After his search of the premises yielded no dungeon holding child sex slaves, he fired his gun at a locked door before …

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