Facebook’s long and halting fight against misinformation

October 18, 2020 big tech, qanon, russia

Archived 6 years ago from Associated Press
Facebook’s long and halting fight against misinformation

Facebook is facing its toughest challenge yet: an election complicated by a pandemic, a deeply divided nation lured by conspiracy theories and alternate versions of reality. Is it ready? Here are some of the biggest steps and missteps it’s taken in the fight against misinformation since 2016. Nov. …

QAnon

October 16, 2020 russia, trump

Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
From QAnon to dictators, Trump embraces those who embrace him back

The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter’s insights By Ashley Parker, The question from NBC’s Savannah Guthrie should have been an easy one. Would President Trump denounce QAnon, the broad and outlandish conspiracy theory that, as she put it, argues that “Democrats are a satanic …

QAnon

October 16, 2020 covid19, deep state, marjorie taylor greene, russia

Archived 6 years ago from Al Jazeera
In QAnon-linked US candidates, populism meets conspiracy

In a batch of QAnon-linked Republican congressional candidates on ballots across the US this general election season, experts see the product of increased polarisation and a new form of conservatism fostered by the conspiracy-theory friendly President Donald Trump. The web of convoluted …

QAnon

October 14, 2020 alex jones, antivax, deep state, fredrick brennan, george soros, illuminati, jim watkins, marjorie taylor greene, paul furber, qanon, rfk jr, ron watkins, russia, sidney powell, ufos

Archived 6 years ago from Wikipedia
QAnon – Wikipedia

QAnon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the string instrument, see Qanun (instrument). American far-right conspiracy theory US Vice President Mike Pence with members of the SWAT team of Broward County, Florida, on November 30, 2018; the man on the left of the image is displaying a red and …

Conspiracy

October 14, 2020 cia, russia, trump

Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
As Trump’s chief conspiracy theory suffers a major blow, he reaches for more desperate ones

The Washington Post reported Tuesday evening that a Trump-backed Justice Department probe into the unmasking of Michael Flynn and others had quietly closed with no criminal charges or even a report to substantiate Trump’s and his allies’ allegations of a Watergate-style conspiracy. But on the same …

COVID-19

October 12, 2020 antivax, bill gates, china, russia

Archived 6 years ago from Down To Earth Magazine
India can exert itself as one of the largest vaccine manufacturers during COVID-19: Vaccinologist Peter Hotez

Hotez talked to DTE on India’s role in global vaccination, its challenges on the home turf, anti-vax movement and vaccine diplomacy The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has left most of the world scared. Economies lie punctured, workers frustrated and governments helpless. “Where is …

COVID-19

October 8, 2020 china, chloroquine, russia

Archived 6 years ago from ABC News
Anti-Beijing group with links to Steve Bannon spreading COVID-19 misinformation in Australia

When Christine’s mother asked her for help printing political pamphlets about COVID-19, it took her by surprise. She already knew her mum belonged to a new political group that aims to take down the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Christine expected the fliers might be pro-US President Donald Trump …

This week’s reading: All the fake news you can handle

Conspiracy

October 8, 2020 5g, alex jones, chemtrails, cia, pizzagate, russia

Archived 4 years ago from Maclean’s
This week’s reading: All the fake news you can handle

A crop of courses on fake news have been cropping up in Canadian universities. Many of them pull insights from political science, philosophy, history and psychology. For an assignment in the course Fake News and Alt-Facts: Navigating Post-Truths Politics at Simon Fraser University, Mark Pickup’s …

Conspiracy

October 7, 2020 covid19, qanon, russia, trump

Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
It’s been a week for Trump conspiracy theories. Here’s how to teach students to identify them — and more news literacy lessons.

The material comes from the project’s newsletter, the Sift, which takes the most recent viral rumors, conspiracy theories, hoaxes and journalistic ethics issues and turns them into timely lessons with discussion prompts and links. The Sift, which is published weekly during the school year, has more …

QAnon

October 7, 2020 5g, bill gates, deep state, george soros, nazi, pizzagate, russia

Archived 4 years ago from CNN
How the ‘parasite’ QAnon conspiracy cult went global

In a small town in northern Germany, the local yacht club isn’t what it used to be. Many of the members – mostly middle-aged men – have been sucked into the conspiracy theories of the QAnon movement: that the coronavirus is a hoax perpetrated by secret elites and that President Donald Trump will …

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