Violent rhetoric and conspiracy theories have gained traction in Maine since the Capitol riot

January 6, 2022 2020 election, nazi, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Maine Public
Violent rhetoric and conspiracy theories have gained traction in Maine since the Capitol riot

Nick Blanchard was one of thousands of people from across the U.S. who traveled to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, to attend the “Save America” rally on the National Mall, where then-President Donald Trump was speaking. The Waterville resident attended the rally and left at 2:12 p.m., he later …

FactChecking Claims About the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot

Conspiracy

January 6, 2022 marjorie taylor greene, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from FactCheck.org
FactChecking Claims About the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot

The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was the culmination of months of false claims about election fraud, including a litany recited by then-President Donald Trump in a speech shortly before a mob stormed the building, temporarily halting the counting of electoral votes in a joint session of …

After January 6, a new breed of extremism emerges: The mainstream insurrectionist

Conspiracy

January 6, 2022 2020 election, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
After January 6, a new breed of extremism emerges: The mainstream insurrectionist

A gallows set up outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Credit: Tyler Merbler. CC BY 2.0 Dylann Roof allegedly had a drug problem. He drifted between homes and schools growing up and had quit a landscaping job by the time he killed nine people in a racist attack on a church in Charleston, South …

Conspiracy

January 6, 2022 2020 election, qanon

Archived 4 years ago
American Support for Conspiracy Theories and Armed Rebellion Isn’t New – We Just Didn’t Believe it Before the Capitol Insurrection – UConn Today – University of Connecticut

Americans had to confront a new reality when an angry mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021: Some of their fellow citizens were in the grips of a false reality and had resorted to violence to support it. Conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election and the strange alternate …

Joy Reid Taunts QAnon Believers: Traffic Jam Proof of a Sham

Conspiracy

January 4, 2022 deep state, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from TheWrap
Joy Reid Taunts QAnon Believers: Traffic Jam Proof of a Sham

MSNBC host Joy Reid on Tuesday used the epic traffic pile-up in Virginia that made headlines around the world to point out a nationally vexing double-negative — and goad true QAnon believers. The failure of those in government to help the stuck drivers, Reid said on “The ReidOut,” proved to those …

Election Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find

Elections

January 4, 2022 2020 election, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from The New York Times
Election Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find

Weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck outlined his prediction for how Election Day would unfold: President Donald J. Trump would be winning that night, but his lead would erode as dubious mail-in ballots arrived, giving Joseph R. Biden Jr. an unlikely …

Here’s where election-denying candidates are running to control voting

Elections

January 4, 2022 2020 election, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from NPR
Here’s where election-denying candidates are running to control voting

Rep. Mark Finchem, of Arizona, gestures as he speaks during an election rally in Richmond, Va., in October. Steve Helber/AP hide caption toggle caption Steve Helber/AP Rep. Mark Finchem, of Arizona, gestures as he speaks during an election rally in Richmond, Va., in October. Steve Helber/AP Mark …

Election Fraud Stars Vow to Stab Each Other—’With the Truth’

Elections

January 3, 2022 maga, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from The Daily Beast
Election Fraud Stars Vow to Stab Each Other—’With the Truth’

Inventor Jovan Pulitzer is a pillar of the MAGA election-fraud movement. His theories were integrated into the Arizona audit and a pro-coup PowerPoint presentation that reached Donald Trump’s chief of staff. But last week, Trumpworld’s genius inventor prank-called one of his haters by posing as a …

Elections

January 3, 2022 maga, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Yahoo News
Election-Fraud Stars Vow to Stab Each Other—‘With the Truth’

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Youtube Inventor Jovan Pulitzer is a pillar of the MAGA election-fraud movement. His theories were integrated into the Arizona audit and a pro-coup PowerPoint presentation that reached Donald Trump’s chief of staff. But last week, Trumpworld’s …

Twitter bans Rep. Greene’s personal account for COVID claims

COVID-19

January 3, 2022 2020 election, big tech, fauci, marjorie taylor greene, qanon, vaers

Archived 4 years ago from Associated Press
Twitter bans Rep. Greene’s personal account for COVID claims

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter said Sunday it had banned the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy, the latest strike against the firebrand whose embrace of conspiracy theories has been called “a cancer” for …

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