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Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said none of what is happening now is “unusual.” “Until the Electoral College votes, anyone who’s running for office can exhaust concerns about counting in any court of appropriate jurisdiction,” McConnell said. “At some point here we’ll …
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British spies are on a mission to halt the spread of misinformation surrounding Covid-19 as the country edges closer to a vaccine release. According to The Times, an operation led by GCHQ aims to ‘disrupt’ anti-vaccine disinformation on social media and other sites by hostile states. The …
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British spies are on a mission to halt the spread of misinformation surrounding Covid-19 as the country edges closer to a vaccine release. According to The Times, an operation led by GCHQ aims to ‘disrupt’ anti-vaccine disinformation on social media and other sites by hostile states. The …
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Conspiracy theories have always had a place in American history. The earliest notable instance of widespread conspiracy was the Salem witch trials. The leading and most compelling theory for what happened is ergot, a type of fungus found in grains that produces an LSD-like effect. It is believed …
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‘To vaccinate, or not to vaccinate’ is a debate that has captured the imagination of social media users as the COVID-19 virus stays resilient. With the plethora of misinformation travelling through the Internet daily, it is paramount that the public health agencies utilize the reach of the social …
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Russian scientists made global headlines in August when they unveiled Sputnik V, the first Covid-19 vaccine to be approved anywhere in the world. But as its roll-out nears, health officials face growing vaccine skepticism. New polling from Moscow’s Levada Center this week shows that as many as six …
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By Joseph Menn 4 Min Read (Reuters) – Russian government-backed social media accounts nurtured the QAnon conspiracy theory in its infancy, earlier than previously reported, according to interviews with current and former Twitter executives and archives of tweets from suspended accounts. FILE PHOTO: …
Read MoreA new super PAC run by operatives in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s orbit and funded by her lawyer is running ads for four like-minded House Republican candidates during the final days of the 2020 campaign. The Stop Socialism Now PAC is run by Georgia operatives with ties to Greene, President Trump and …
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Share this: October 29, 2020 In her latest article for Right Wing Watch, “Disinformation, Coronavirus, and the 2020 Presidential Election“, Melissa Ryan writes: In the 2016 presidential campaign, a robust disinformation effort fueled by Russia’s intelligence agencies provided a new turn in the …
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Marc-André Argentino, Amarnath Amarasingam 29 Oct 2020 The QAnon conspiracy emerged on 28 October 2017, when a user named “Q” posted what were purported to be highly classified government secrets on 4chan’s /pol/ (politically incorrect) discussion board, contributing to a thread discussing the …
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