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YouTube Moves to Make Conspiracy Videos Harder to Find
Whether it is a video claiming the earth is flat or the moon landing was faked, conspiracy theories are not hard to find on Google’s YouTube. But in a significant policy change, YouTube said on Friday that it planned to stop recommending them. After years of criticism that YouTube leads viewers to videos that spread misinformation, the company said it was changing what videos it recommends to users. In a blog post, YouTube said it would no longer suggest videos with “borderline content” or those that “misinform users in a harmful way” even if the footage does not violate its community guidelines.
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Barron Trump, Time Travel, and the Limits of Conspiracy Theories
The story of Ingersoll Lockwood’s books "Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey" have been used to peddle a time travel conspiracy before. By Mike Rothschild.
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There's a Secret Code Hiding on These Madrid Security Bollards
It took the power of the internet to crack it. By Juan Pablo Garnham.
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Beyond BuzzFeed: The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump/Russia Story
The most challenging task is choosing the ten worst embarrassments. The most notable aspect is they all go toward promoting the same narrative. By Glenn Greenwald.
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A Murder in Gdańsk
The assassination of Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz at a fundraising event for Poland's most beloved charity culminates years of fear-mongering about the country's opposition and judiciary by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. And now the PiS has chosen the wrong scapegoat for Adamowicz's murder. By Sławomir Sierakowski.
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Classic Who: GHW Bush and the JFK Assassination
Former President George H.W. Bush claimed to have trouble remembering where he was when John F. Kennedy was shot — in Bush’s own state. Helping refresh Bush 41’s memory leads in some fascinating directions. By Russ Baker.
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QAnon’s true believers are devastated as the conspiracy theory goes down in flames
The Republican midterm loss and the firing of Jeff Sessions blew up the narrative of the QAnon conspiracy theory
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Grand Old Paranoia
How Republican conspiracy theories have warped Washington. By Colin Dickey.
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The Strange True Story of the Godfather of Conspiracy Theories
From Ol' Dirty Bastard to Alex Jones and Donald Trump, William Cooper's deranged ideas have been felt insanely far and wide.
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REMEMBER!! JFK warned us all along!
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Has the Clock Run Out on the Smolensk Conspiracy?
Blaming the Russians, or political opponents, only goes so far.
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We can't wait until election day to find out who's manipulating the vote this time
Disinformation is not going to slink away, vampire-style, in the face of sunlight. By Monika Bauerlein, Clara Jeffery.
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The room inside Pine Gap no Australian could enter, bar one
Declassified US cables confirm the existence of a "national communication and cypher room" at the spy base in the Northern Territory. By Nick Miller.
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No, the world isn't ending today. We hope.
Despite wild claims from the Daily Express, the world isn't going to come to an end today (April 23). Quoting conspiracy theorist David Meade, the Express said a passage in the Bible, Revelations 12:1-2, "suggests the end of the world is imminent, with Earth set to be destroyed on April 23." Right in the middle of the NBA playoffs? How rude.
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The Story Claiming Buzz Aldrin Saw Aliens in Space Is Utter Nonsense
A viral story that's making the rounds online claims Buzz Aldrin, the famous astronaut who traveled with Neil Armstrong to the moon aboard Apollo 11, somehow proved via a lie-detector test to have seen a UFO in outer space. Let's be very clear here: This is flat-out wrong. Here's why. First, the news reports misrepresent what Aldrin actually said. In a Reddit comment three years ago, Aldrin said that, while he did see something shiny out the window in space, he believes it was the sun reflecting off one of four discarded panels from his own spacecraft.
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The Washington Post’s ‘Breakthrough’ on the MLK Murder
The Washington Post broke with recent corporate media practice by daring to raise questions about who killed Martin Luther King Jr., as William F. Pepper and Andrew Kreig explain.
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You Can’t Handle the Vacuous Truth
“I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst” – Gore Vidal. By Aaron Dabbah.
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We studied thousands of anonymous posts about the Parkland attack — and found a conspiracy in the making
Forty-seven minutes after news broke of a high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., the posters on the anonymous chat board 8chan had devised a plan to bend the public narrative to their own designs: “Start looking for [Jewish] numerology and crisis actors.”
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Five Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Denver Airport
Bizarre stuff. By Kate Erbland.
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Deep State agent amused and annoyed by your conspiracy theories
An agent of the deep state working undercover with the NSA has expressed mixed feelings toward the conspiracy theories you post online.
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