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QAnon and related conspiracy theories like Pizzagate
In the age of QAnon, it is of little comfort to learn in Michael Butter’s “The Nature of Conspiracy Theories” that such malevolent fables have been around for some time. Cicero devised one. Winston Churchill, at least once, passed along another. What’s different now, claims Mr. Butter, is who …
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Our editors independently select these products. Making a purchase through our links may earn Well+Good a commissionOne of the things that attracted Katie* to her boyfriend was his healthy lifestyle. Like some Los Angeles residents, Keith* viewed himself as a wellness enthusiast; he followed a …
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The disinformation and “big lie” of election fraud motivated many people to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Matt Williams for NPR hide caption toggle caption Matt Williams for NPR The disinformation and “big lie” of election fraud motivated many people to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Matt …
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The sheer outlandishness of the claims are breathtaking: a Satanist pedophile ring run by political elites; American voting machines rigged “at the direction of Hugo Chavez,” who is deceased; school shootings that are actually “false flag” operations designed to push gun control. Conspiracy …
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A faction of local, county and state Republican officials is pushing lies, misinformation and conspiracy theories that echo those that helped inspire the violent U.S. Capitol siege, online messaging that is spreading quickly through GOP ranks fueled by algorithms that boost extreme content. “ The …
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They’re banned but not gone. Key allies of former president Donald Trump, who were expelled from Twitter after the Capitol riot, are still getting their messages heard there. Trump lawyers Lin Wood and Sidney Powell and pardoned former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who pushed …
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All advertising is in some sense a form of falsification. But while once the message probably had an actual thing — a car or a hamburger, perhaps — to sell, today the message itself is often the product. “The source of value is the watching labor performed by the audience — this after all is the …
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Crystal Deck was opening presents on Christmas morning at her brother’s home when she heard the news that an enormous explosion had ripped through the historic heart of Nashville. She knew instantly that the bomber was her dearest friend, Anthony Q. Warner, and quickly began …
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Stripped of context, it’s a nonsensical claim. There is probably not any actual individual who is “Q,” the anonymous source of various random allegations and cryptic comments that serve as the basis of the quasi-religious conspiracy theory QAnon. But there’s no question that the QAnon movement …
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Days before the inauguration of President Joe Biden, at a time when some Americans were animated by the false conviction that former President Donald J. Trump had actually won the November election, a man in Colorado began texting warnings to his family. The coming days, he wrote, would be “the …
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