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QAnon and related conspiracy theories like Pizzagate
Ukraine, Trump and QAnon: Why the far right is backing Russia, Putin News Sports Entertainment Life Money Tech Travel Opinion America’s far right shares a common enemy with Putin and Russia: the West’s liberal values and the cabal of elites they believe controls the economy and the media. …
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I’m not talking about the QAnon conspiracy (though all of the above applies to it). I’m talking about “Z,” the propaganda campaign amplified by the Kremlin in Eastern Europe to gin up support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s murderous war in Ukraine. The Z campaign started in the days after …
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According to one narrative being shared on social media, Russia has a noble aim for its war against Ukraine: to end child trafficking there. “Putin vows to ‘crush’ child traffickers in Ukraine,” read what looked like a headline in a screenshot shared March 2 on Facebook. The headline came from Real …
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The throwback conspiracy theory known as the “New World Order” is enjoying a renaissance.U.S. President Joe Biden name-checked the “new world order” conspiracy in mid-March at a Business Roundtable meeting.“Now is a time when things are shifting,” Biden said when asked about the United States’ …
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Editor’s Note: While it doesn’t need to be said that I don’t agree with everything any of our writers post, it’s important to note before this article by Ryan Matters that the accusations made require more independent confirmation than I have time to do myself. It’s fascinating material and, based …
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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Russia’s disinformation campaigns to justify invading Ukraine have failed up to now, but Russia keeps trying. And one conspiracy theory is gaining some ground here in the United States. It’s spreading through some of the same channels that domestic extremists rely on. NPR’s …
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When Russian bombs began to fall on Ukraine, Julia Tymoshenko called her aunt in Moscow. She told her about spending a night in the basement as explosions thundered overhead. Her aunt was unimpressed. “Well, you don’t know who did that,” she said. “We’re seeing one thing on the news, you’re seeing …
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TOPEKA — Douglas Frank entertained a church crowd in Topeka with bogus conspiracies about hacked voting rolls, fake ballots, machines secretly connected to cellphone towers and a plot by technocrats to predetermine the outcome of elections. The March 15 performance followed a presentation hours …
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When Russian bombs began to fall on Ukraine, Julia Tymoshenko called her aunt in Moscow. She told her about spending a night in the basement as explosions thundered overhead. Her aunt was unimpressed. “Well, you don’t know who did that,” she said. “We’re seeing one thing on the news, you’re seeing …
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The American rightwing media’s trumpeting of a conspiracy theory about Ukrainian biological facilities that masked a clandestine bioweapons programme has now rocketed from a fringe QAnon channel directly to Fox News and Donald Trump Jr. The Russian propaganda machine is so engaged in sowing …
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