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YouTube deletes conspiracy theorist David Icke's channel
YouTube has deleted conspiracy theorist David Icke’s account. The video-sharing site said the 68-year-old violated its policies on sharing information about coronavirus.
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Facebook removes accounts linked to QAnon conspiracy theory
Facebook says it has removed several groups, accounts and pages linked to QAnon, taking action for the first time against the far-right U.S. conspiracy theory circulated among supporters of President Donald Trump. The social-media giant made the announcement Tuesday as part of its monthly briefing on “coordinated inauthentic behavior” on its platforms. That’s Facebook’s term for fake accounts run with the intent of disrupting politics elections and society.
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A coronavirus conspiracy theory film attacking vaccines has racked up million of views and engagements on YouTube and Facebook
A film featuring a known anti-vaxxer pushing conspiracy theories and false claims about the novel coronavirus, including attacking vaccines, has racked up more than 9 million views on YouTube. Additionally, the video and its reuploads have tallied more than 16 million Facebook engagements. The spread of the film -- called “Plandemic” -- through reuploads on YouTube shows the platform’s continuing issues with enforcing its policies against coronavirus misinformation during this public health crisis.
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Bill Gates responds to ‘stupid,’ ‘bizarre’ coronavirus microchip conspiracy theories
Responding to a conspiracy theory that Bill Gates plans to use the coronavirus vaccine to implant microchips in people and create a global surveillance state, the billionaire said the theory was “so stupid.” Gates’ remarks came during a call with reporters on Thursday ahead of an announcement that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation would pledge another $1.6 billion to the Gavi vaccine alliance, the New York Post reported.
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Madonna Shares Coronavirus Conspiracy Video And Says Cure Is Being Hidden
The Material Girl is now the Coronavirus Conspiracist. Madonna on Tuesday posted a video with misinformation about COVID-19 and hydroxychloroquine, writing on Instagram that a vaccine for the virus had been developed but was being withheld to “let the rich get richer.”
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Facebook removes 200,000-strong QAnon group
Facebook has deleted a large group dedicated to sharing and discussing QAnon conspiracy theories. QAnon is a wide-ranging, unfounded conspiracy theory that a "deep state" network of powerful government, business and media figures are waging a secret war against Donald Trump. A Facebook spokeswoman said the group was removed for "repeatedly posting content that violated our policies".
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Political ideology predicts susceptibility to believing fake news about the novel coronavirus pandemic
Political conservatism was associated with heightened susceptibility to believing fake news about COVID-19 in the early stages of the outbreak in the United States, according to new research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science. The study provides preliminary evidence that support for President Donald Trump plays a role in viewing COVID-19 as less of a personal threat and less severe in general.
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Facebook removes hundreds of QAnon groups, thousands of ads
Facebook also took down thousands of accounts, pages and groups as part en effort to limit violent rhetoric tied to QAnon, political militias and protest groups.
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Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead.
The first family to quit Pastor Clark Frailey’s church during the pandemic did it by text message. It felt to Frailey like a heartbreaking and incomplete way to end a years-long relationship. When a second young couple said they were doubting his leadership a week later, Frailey decided to risk seeing them in person, despite…
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Pastors Are Losing Church Members To QAnon, Swapping One Myth for Another
The QAnon conspiracy theory has emerged as a powerful cultish force within the Republican Party, and while there’s no polling that shows it, many QAnon followers are people who regularly attend church. In a really eye-opening piece by Abby Ohlheiser in the MIT Technology Review, she speaks with pastors who have essentially lost members who went down that rabbit hole.
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Twitter removes QAnon supporter's false claim about coronavirus death statistics that Trump had retweeted
Twitter on Sunday took down a tweet containing a false claim about coronavirus death statistics that was made by a supporter of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory -- a post that President Donald Trump had retweeted earlier in the day. The tweet -- which has been replaced with a message saying, "This Tweet is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules -- from "Mel Q," copied from someone else's Facebook post, claimed that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had "quietly" updated its numbers...
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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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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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Patreon is banning QAnon conspiracy theorists, joining a growing group of tech companies taking action against the movement
Patreon is the latest tech company to take action on the QAnon conspiracy theory, announcing in a blog post Thursday morning that creators promoting the movement would be banned from the platform. Patreon, a membership platform that lets fans support creators and celebrities financially through subscriptions, previously hosted 14 QAnon influencers on the platform, according to a recent report from the progressive media watchdog Media Matters for America (MMFA).
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How QAnon infiltrated the yoga world
It was in March when yoga instructor Jennifer Davis-Flynn noticed her Instagram feed starting to change. She saw fellow yogis expressing doubts about the severity of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, challenging government-mandated lockdowns and mask-wearing regulations, and positing whether natural medicine and meditation could best protect us from the viral threat.
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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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I think Dan Brown turned my parents into QAnoners
If you haven't heard of the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon by now, perhaps it's irresponsible of me to tell you about it. Essentially, a member of a sketchy Internet forum alleged that he is a high level government official with secret information about a satanic cult run by Democrat pedophiles and their sex-trafficking associates. It's the same old antisemitic dogwhistle all over again, but with a fun new twist: President Donald Trump has surreptitiously dedicated his career...
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Why Nashville bomb investigators feared copycat attacks by 5G conspiracists
Conspiracy theories about 5G technology are growing in size and intensity-—and finding connections with the pandemic.
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Even If It's 'Bonkers,' Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories
A significant number of Americans believe misinformation about the origins of the coronavirus and the recent presidential election, as well as conspiracy theories like QAnon, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll. Forty percent of respondents said they believe the coronavirus was made in a lab in China even though there is no evidence for this. Scientists say the virus was transmitted to humans from another species.
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Biden inauguration leaves QAnon believers in disarray
Followers of the baseless conspiracy theory are split over failed inauguration day predictions.
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