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QAnon and related conspiracy theories like Pizzagate
By Simon Ings The symbol of the QAnon far-right conspiracy theory Pacific Press/Lightrocket via Getty Images You Are Here Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner Advertisement MIT Press THIS is a book about pollution, not of the physical environment, but
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The congregation was in the middle of an online service when a longtime churchgoer in her 60s texted her pastor to complain that his prayer lamenting the riot the U.S. Capitol in January was “too political.” The woman later unloaded
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The last few weeks of news coverage have reminded us how easy it is to create, disseminate and proliferate misinformation in India. The ingredients are often the same: a hot-button topic, local or foreign bad actors, explicit or implicit collusion
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UNIONTOWN, Ohio — Nearly two months after the attack on the U.S. Capitol and President Joe Biden’s subsequent inauguration, some faith-based leaders are publicly denouncing conspiracy theories like QAnon. QAnon’s followers believe in a secret “deep state plot” against former
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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
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The COVID conspiracy tipping point, however, came on on May 4, 2020. This is when film producer Mikki Willis quietly released a video titled “Plandemic” to social media.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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