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Late last month, the world watched in real time on social media as a nuclear power invaded a sovereign neighbor. In the days before Russian forces entered Ukraine, many high-profile commentators processed the impending crisis through the lens of America’s unending culture war. The left-wing …
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To the editor: Last year, Tucker Carlson was confronted in a Montana fishing store by a patron who said, “Dude, you are the worst human being known to mankind. I want you to know that.” (“Tucker Carlson shills for Putin while his colleagues are killed in Ukraine,” Opinion, March 18) The …
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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Russia’s disinformation campaigns to justify invading Ukraine have failed up to now, but Russia keeps trying. And one conspiracy theory is gaining some ground here in the United States. It’s spreading through some of the same channels that domestic extremists rely on. NPR’s …
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Since the invasion, right-leaning Facebook pages have posted 336 times about the conspiracy theory and have earned almost 500,000 interactions on these posts. In fact, right-leaning pages account for nearly 60% of posts about the conspiracy theory that were posted by politics and news Facebook …
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Chinese officials are pushing a debunked conspiracy theory promoted by the Russian military that the U.S. is funding biological weapons research in Ukraine. Why it matters: As the West has pushed to isolate Putin, “China has insistently sought to shift the focus to the question of U.S. biological …
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By Cliff Kincaid March 22, 2022 Brain Dead Joe sent them into battle, failing to provide the weapons they needed for victory. It’s Biden’s Bay of Pigs. The humanitarian group Razom notes Ukraine doesn’t even have the air power and air support to protect the sky so that rescuers can dig out the …
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Friends in conspiracy theory circles have been warning me since the start of the war that the World Economic Forum or someone else would stage a false-flag cyberattack that would take down the internet and/or critical American infrastructure. These friends also told me they would, of course, blame …
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Quick Take Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appeared in several recent videos that show he has remained in the country since Russia invaded on Feb. 24. But a post circulating on Facebook falsely claims he fled and recorded a video using a green screen to make it appear as though he’s …
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Musician Aaron Lewis won’t be changing his Twitter bio to a Ukrainian flag anytime soon. The Staind frontman — currently on a solo acoustic tour that hits Cabazon for sold-out shows Thursday and Friday — expressed his conspiracy-theorist point of view on the Russian invasion of Ukraine last …
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University of Alberta Assistant Professor Dougal MacDonald raised hell on November 20, 2019 by writing in a personal Facebook post that the 1932-33 genocide of Ukrainians referred to as Holodomor was a “myth fabricated by Hitlerites”. If such remarks were made in most nations today, it wouldn’t be …
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