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One quarter of Canadians believe online conspiracy theories, expert says
A quarter of Canadians believe in online conspiracy theories, an expert on radicalization and terrorism told a parliamentary committee Thursday. David Morin, a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke, said a poll conducted for an upcoming report he is preparing for the Quebec government found that 9 to 10 per cent of Canadians strongly believe in conspiracy theories, while another 15 per cent moderately believe them.
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Labelling something a “conspiracy theory” does little to stop people from believing it
The label “conspiracy theory” is often slapped on unsubstantiated ideas. But does labelling something a conspiracy theory actually discredit it? A new paper in the British Journal of Psychology suggests not. Karen M. Douglas at the University of Kent and colleagues find that people call an idea that they already consider unbelievable a “conspiracy theory” — rather than being influenced by that term to disbelieve it.
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Kim Kardashian And Pete Davidson’s Relationship Inspired A Strange Conspiracy Theory
The unexpected romance blossoming between SNL comedian Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian has inspired hundreds of gossip headlines, frantically analyzing trivialities, from hand-holding to hickies. On TikTok, however, fans are just as suspicious as they are curious.
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Alex Jones guilty in all four Sandy Hook defamation cases
Connecticut judge rules Jones guilty in fourth defamation case
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QAnon Followers Want Out, but the Hurdles Are Huge
In a ‘Cosmo’ exclusive report, women on both sides—the former believers and the doctors they’re turning to—show us what it takes to escape.
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Some QAnon believers are being driven to violence. Experts say mental health problems could be a factor.
A QAnon believer from California admitted killing his children with a spearfishing gun this week because he believed they would "grow into monsters." Anthony Beckett apologized to his pregnant girlfriend as he tried to force her head underwater. "I need to do this, I need to do this," the soon-to-be father of three from Middlesbrough, England, told his stunned partner who was taking a bath, according to court documents seen by Insider.
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COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs Increased Among Users of Conservative and Social Media
Belief in conspiracies about the COVID-19 pandemic increased through the early months of the U.S. outbreak among people who reported being heavy users of conservative and social media, a study by Annenberg Public Policy Center researchers has found.
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Report: China, Russia fueling QAnon conspiracy theories
Foreign-based actors, principally in China and Russia, are spreading online disinformation rooted in QAnon conspiracy theories, fueling a movement that has become a mounting domestic terrorism threat, according to new analysis of online propaganda by a security firm.
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Facebook could have stopped 10 billion impressions from "repeat misinformers", but didn't: report
Facebook does not need any more bad publicity. The company is currently being publicly scorned after more than 500 million users had their personal information leaked. It has also been faced with an antitrust suit endorsed by more than 40 states since last year, with reports alleging that CEO Mark Zuckerberg would intimidate potential competitors.
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Making sense of conspiracy theorists as the world gets more bizarre
It is 20 years since Jon Ronson wrote Them, his eye-popping investigation into conspiracy theorists. Now, in a world awash with tales of paedophile elites and puppet masters, is he any closer to understanding it all?
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A Better Way to Think About Conspiracies
People will always be interested in conspiracy theories. They need a tool kit for discriminating among different fringe ideas.
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Is there a conspiracy against Gingers?
One woman's belief that there's a global conspiracy against gingers could just change the way you see the world.
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The Folkloric Roots of the QAnon Conspiracy
From a folkloristic perspective, QAnon may not be based in fact but is not necessarily baseless.
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5G Truthers Bought Faraday Cages to Protect Their Routers. They're Mad They Worked.
Let's say you hate 5G and genuinely believe it causes cancer or spreads COVID-19, despite there being no evidence to support those wild conspiracies. To shield 5G's myriad evils, then, you put your WiFi router in a metallic box that "blocks about 90 percent" of the signal. There! Now you're instantly protected from those treacherous waves of radiation!
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Conspiracy theories, explained
Americans are embracing dangerous conspiratorial beliefs, from QAnon to coronavirus denial.
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CONSTANTLY WRONG: The Case Against Conspiracy Theories
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Popular Pirate Sites 'Disappear' From DuckDuckGo's Top Search Results
After popular pirate sites started disappearing from Google's top results, the same now appears to be happening at DuckDuckGo as well.
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Fear and adrenochrome | Spectator USA
Adrenochrome fascinates the QAnoners less as a drug than for its role in ritual: drug-crazed Luciferian elites sacrificing young children on an altar
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Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Addictive Right Now
QAnon, #TrumpCovidHoax and other conspiracy theories may be part of a larger authority crisis created by the internet.
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Was the Identity of Q Really Just Revealed? Here’s Everything We Know.
The story behind QAnon is becoming as weird and winding as the conspiracy theory itself. (It doesn’t have satanists, though.)
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