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QAnon and related conspiracy theories like Pizzagate
New York CNN Business — A new conspiracy theory has become popular among some of the online communities that formed around QAnon – one simultaneously being promoted by the Kremlin as a justification for its invasion of Ukraine. The false claim: the United States is developing bioweapons in …
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The protest at Parliament ended in violence and flames, but the issue of disinformation keeps burning. 1News spoke to Josie*, an immunocompromised academic, whose mother was at the protest. it began as another normal day and ended in violence. Josie’s mum shares claims about Covid-19 from …
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This story was originally published in our data newsletter, which you can sign up for here. Imagine you’re a journalist and you receive a collection of tens of millions of posts from more than 100,000 Facebook groups. You think …
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The American offshoot of the “Freedom Convoy” that brought chaos to Canada’s capital is promising to stop traffic outside of Washington, D.C., on Saturday, but exact plans remained vague Friday as the group hit its last pit stop in Maryland. The convoy, which was organized on pro-Trump and …
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The claim: Vladimir Putin has banned the Rothschild family from entering Russia After Russia invaded Ukraine, several countries announced sanctions against Russia’s leaders, oligarchs and their families. Now, some social media users claim the Kremlin has also taken aim at a famous European banking …
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Twitch has issued new moderation rules around misinformation on Thursday that take aim at channels spreading lies about vaccines and the ongoing war in Ukraine, as well as other fringe online movements like QAnon. The policy builds off one Twitch established last year that gave it authority to …
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Pro-Russian channels and QAnon conspiracy theorists think Moscow is launching airstrikes on Ukraine to destroy bioweapon-manufacturing labs in order to prevent the American infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci from creating a sequel to the COVID-19 virus. This theory hangs on the entirely …
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First published on By Paul Spoonley Opinion – It has been interesting to watch media and public commentators come to the realisation – sometimes slowly – that the siege of Parliament was not simply an anti-vaccine mandate “protest” but something with more sinister elements. Photo: RNZ / Samuel …
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By Reuters Fact Check 6 Min Read A video of soldiers dancing has been described online as if showing Russian and Ukrainian soldiers dancing together. Some social media users have shared this as evidence for the baseless allegation that the two countries are united in fighting the ‘deep state’ (a …
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In the gutter world of the internet, many conspiracy theorists are struggling to weave a single narrative around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While some subscribe to the belief that the war is a possible false flag operation, others think Vladimir Putin is attacking Ukraine to destroy the Deep …
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