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A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine. Credit: Baltimore County Government. Some 53 percent of US adults get news from social media. They consume information in a zone in which inaccuracies spread far and wide, often on the back of emotional
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Advertisement In the time since Richards first designed her framework for understanding conspiracies and conspiracy theories, monumental events like the 2020 presidential election had not yet taken place nor had the coronavirus pandemic become as deeply intertwined with daily life.
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As almost any health professional will tell you, the best way for us to put the worst of COVID-19 behind us is to vaccinate as many people as possible. But that isn’t going as well as we would like —
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A desire to sabotage the electoral prospects of the incumbent US president was not the only motive that conspiracists saw at work. Greed and abuse of power and trust were assumed to be at play as well. Presuppositions of self-interested
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Joy Behar, co-host of “The View,” declared that black people who are “skittish” about receiving COVID-19 vaccines due to governmental distrust and past injustices such as the Tuskegee experiment should end their vaccine hesitancy because “the experiment has been done
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In 1943, the writer and literature professor C.S. Lewis delivered a series of three evening lectures at King’s College, Newcastle. In the third and final part of his lecture series titled “The Abolition of Man,” he spoke of how science can
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Even though Minneapolis removed barricades from the protest zone at E. 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, George Floyd Square remains a gathering place that attracts weekend crowds of the curious. The Rev. Curtis Farrar of Worldwide Outreach for Christ, the
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By Bryan Pietsch and Adela Suliman, The Washington Post Updated: 1 day ago Published: 1 day ago In this Monday, May 6, 2019, photo, Nicki Minaj attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala in New York. (Photo
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The claim: The Food and Drug Administration hasn’t fully approved Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine The Food and Drug Administration has given its official stamp of approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine. But online, a conspiracy theory doubting that fact has blossomed. “DECEPTIVE MEDIA:
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What do conspiracy theories and racism have in common? More than you might think. Deen Freelon discusses how white supremacy itself is a kind of highly successful disinformation campaign and how a willingness to believe all sorts of terrible and
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