AvatarZoomRobert F. Kennedy Jr. Anti-vaccination leaders seize on coronavirus to push resistance to inoculation verified_publisherThe Washington Post - Peter JamisonAs scientists around the world race to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus, the pandemic is also stoking a surge of activity among activists who argue that such a vaccine must be resisted. Leaders of...
AvatarZoomConspiracies How Pizzagate fueled QAnon conspiracy theories and the attack on the Capitol - The Washington Post verified_publisherThe Washington PostSALISBURY, N.C. — He slipped out of bed before sunrise and started driving, spurred by the baseless claims he would soon help make famous. As he sped the 350 miles from his hometown in North Carolina the...
AvatarZoomExtremism After Capitol riot, desperate families turn to groups that ‘deprogram’ extremists verified_publisherThe Washington Post - By Paulina Villegas, Hannah KnowlesHer brother couldn’t make it to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, but she worried that he would join a new insurrection — that one day “he would be one of the people on TV.” The woman in her 30s asked her family...
AvatarZoom Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories infect L.A. film editor Micah Conrad with doubt - The Washington Post verified_publisherThe Washington PostIt began as a freelance job. Micah Conrad would wake up midmorning, check his email and begin downloading videos that had arrived while he slept. He would brew coffee, drinking it on the narrow patio the...
AvatarZoom I Spoke to a Scholar of Conspiracy Theories and I’m Scared for Us verified_publisherThe New York Times - Farhad ManjooLately, I have been putting an embarrassing amount of thought into notions like jinxes and knocking on wood. The polls for Joe Biden look good, but in 2020, any hint of optimism feels dangerously naïve,...
