Analysis: COVID, 5G and the prevalence of conspiracy theories – Connecticut Post
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The Rise and Spread of a 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory
As with Van Kerckhoven, many of the conspiracy theories around 5G and coronavirus lean heavily on supposed experts. A video of a lecture given by Thomas Cowan, a physician from California, claims that coronavirus is the result of poisoning caused
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COVID-19 Pandemic Conspiracy Theories Are Taking Over German Democracy
On Aug. 29, 38,000 people amassed in Berlin for Europe’s largest protest against COVID-19 safety measures and lockdowns. The eclectic mix of right-wing extremists, conspiracy theorists, anti-vaccine activists, club kids, and New Age esoterics blurred political messages. Signs with “We
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Sep 1 Billboard peddling unsubstantiated claims about vaccines pops up in Rochester
A message in rotation on a digital billboard, on the northern doorstep of downtown Rochester and steps away from Mayo Clinic, is currently promoting unsubstantiated anti-vaccination fears — as the world awaits the most important inoculation in at least 70
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Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories infect LA film editor Micah Conrad with doubt
It began as a freelance job. Micah Conrad would wake up midmorning, check his email and begin downloading videos that had arrived while he slept. He would brew coffee, drinking it on the narrow patio of the small apartment he
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Berlin police break up “anti-coronavirus” protest after 18,000 gather with no masks or social distancing
A massive protest Saturday in Berlin against Germany’s coronavirus restrictions was shut down just hours after it began because the majority of attendees were not wearing face masks or socially distancing as is required. Berlin police estimate that 18,000 people
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Anti-Vax Group Sues Facebook Because They Think Fact-Checking Is Censorship
Children’s Health Defense (CHD), an anti-vaccine group headed by Robert F. Kannedy, Jr., filed a lawsuit alleging that Facebook’s fact-checking practices violate its constitutional rights and amount to “censorship.” The suit names Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as well as three
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“Plandemic: Indoctornation” video rehashes debunked claims and conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines
Plandemic is a pseudo-documentary produced by American filmmaker Mikki Willis, whose first instalment was published in May 2020. Featuring an interview with anti-vaccination activist and former scientist Judy Mikovits, the video peddled numerous false claims and conspiracy theories about the
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Platforms successfully stopped a COVID conspiracy video from going viral
One of the more hopeful developments at tech platforms this year has been their investment in removing misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter were all relatively quick to acknowledge the threat that COVID hoaxes represent, and
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Why is the ‘anti-vaxxer’ movement growing during a pandemic? | Free to read
Greer McVay insists she is “not an anti-vaxxer — not at all”. She is up to date with her own immunisations and had her son vaccinated when he was a child. But she fears the development of a vaccine for
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