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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on September 25, 2021 in Perry, Georgia. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images) Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A coalition of right-wing MAGA candidates, including multiple Trump-backed candidates, are seeking to take control of …
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Days after the November 2020 election, Kirk Hartle appeared on Las Vegas television, his brow furrowed and voice tinged with disbelief. Someone, he said, had intercepted the ballot mailed to his wife, Rosemarie, and cast it in her stead. Rosemarie Hartle died of breast cancer in 2017. “That is …
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John Locher / AP A sign directs people where to vote at a polling place during early voting in Las Vegas, Oct. 30, 2020. Donald Hartle, a Las Vegas businessman, is facing criminal charges of voting twice in the November 2020 election, including with his dead wife’s ballot, Nevada Attorney General …
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Facebook researchers in 2019 created three dummy accounts to study the platform’s technology for recommending content in the News Feed. The first was for a user in India, its biggest market. Then it created two more test accounts to represent a conservative American user and a liberal one. All …
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Sitting in a packed conference hall in Nashville at the weekend, hundreds of people roared in support as the speaker on stage discussed the coming “war” against the “satanic order” controlling the country. The crowd nodded along in agreement as another speaker claimed powerful elites had …
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Eric Trump mocked America’s top general for running “sensitivity training” for the military while China tested nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles, at a conference attended by throngs of QAnon supporters and vaccine conspiracy theorists. The son of the former president gave one of the strongest …
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Facebook has been accused of knowing that its platform enabled misinformation to reach a significant number of people, especially in the US, long before the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol led to increased scrutiny of the company’s policies. NBC News reports that …
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In summer 2019, a new Facebook user named Carol Smith signed up for the platform, describing herself as a politically conservative mother from Wilmington, North Carolina. Smith’s account indicated an interest in politics, parenting and Christianity and followed a few of her favorite brands, …
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Chiropractors traveled from across the United States during a pandemic to a resort in the Wisconsin Dells, a popular tourist attraction in central Wisconsin. It’s an area that has repeatedly seen its hospitals overflow because of COVID-19. Those chiropractors paid upwards of $399 for “Vax-Con,” …
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(Washington Post illustration; Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post; Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP; Facebook screenshots; iStock) A trove of internal documents turned over to the SEC provides new details of the social media platform’s role in fomenting the storming of the U.S. Capitol October …
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