The other night, as President Trump convalesced at Walter Reed, I took a spin through social media to see the latest news on his health. Instead, what I found were a bunch of paranoid partisans posting grainy, zoomed-in photos, analyzing video footage frame by frame, and people straining to connect …
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Conspiratorial thinking
Here, we will share articles and videos about the conspiratorial thinking, and beliefs in alternative realities, that leads to conspiracy theories and the wide sharing of falsehoods. We will also share articles and videos about the real-world impact of conspiracy theories.
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Pro-Trump group QAnon’s rebranding as an anti-child trafficking movement is “tying up resources with ridiculous conspiracy theories,” NBC News …
Pushing the theory on to bigger platforms proved to be the key to Qanon’s spread — and the originators’ financial gain. In November 2017, a small-time YouTube video creator and two moderators of the 4chan website, one of the most extreme message boards on the internet, banded together and plucked …
YouTube said it would be enforcing the updated policy immediately and plans to “ramp up in the weeks to come.” YouTube said Thursday that it would no longer allow content that targets individuals and groups with conspiracy theories, specifically QAnon and its antecedent, "pizzagate." “Today, we are …
CNN Business — I spent my last two Saturdays going to two very different QAnon events. One, in Los Angeles, was a march through Hollywood that portrayed itself as an anti-pedophilia protest. Its organizers were careful not to explicitly embrace the QAnon conspiracy theory even as they implicitly …
Pizzagate-style rumors in 2016 were largely confined to far-right message boards. This year, they are reaching the mainstream with help from a website boosted by Trump. Some of the same people who pushed a false conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton that first emerged in 2016 are now targeting …
This story has been updated to include information about Lively’s racist language that came to The Post’s attention after publication. The night before she almost ruined her life, Melissa Rein Lively couldn’t sleep. She had gotten into a fight with her husband, Jared, and though they had never spent …
New research shows the bigger threat to public trust in a Covid-19 vaccine comes from smaller, better-connected Facebook groups. Vaccination proponents and misinformation researchers had been waiting for years for Facebook to take action against the biggest and most influential anti-vaccination …
Conspiracy theories have simmered on the fringes of society for years. But in 2020 they found new audiences: Celebrity chef Pete Evans welcomed …