“Is there a Zombie Apocalypse activated by 5G towers on the way?!?!” wrote the QAnon influencer behind a Telegram channel called The Patriot Voice, which is followed by more than 50,000 people, in a post shared at the end of September. The message cites a supposed military expert’s claim that …
Read More »Trump Propaganda, Covid Conspiracy Theories, and White Supremacy: Brought to You by AT&T
One America News — the Trump-loving cable news network known for peddling conspiracy theories — probably wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for AT&T, according to a new report from Reuters. OAN founder Robert Herring said in a 2019 deposition that back in 2013, the telecom behemoth told him to create …
Read More »The Disinformation Vaccine: Is There a Cure for Conspiracy Theories?
Sander van der Linden was working in his office at the University of Cambridge a few years ago when he received a strange phone call. A professor of social psychology and director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory, van der Linden is one of the world’s leading researchers on how …
Read More »A Brief History of Conspiracy Theories About the Moon Landing
Let’s all just agree on one thing: the moon is weird. It’s in the sky. It glows. Sometimes it’s big, and sometimes it’s small. It also causes tides, somehow, for some reason, though if you’re looking for an in-depth explanation as to how it does this and why, you are …
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