IT News · @itnewsbot
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Nonilex · @Nonilex
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The move also comes as the admin & are grappling w/how to push back on w/o tipping the 2 countries into open conflict, & w/how to reduce the risk that is used to magnify .

The impact of the Chinese campaign — identified by researchers from , , the , & the — is difficult to measure, tho early indications suggest that few social media users engaged w/the most outlandish of the .

#biden #congress #china #ai #disinformation #microsoft #recordedfuture #randcorp #newsguard #uofmaryland #conspiracytheories

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Blamellors ✔️✔️💙 · @blamellors
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IT News · @itnewsbot
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Jason Madrid · @JMad17
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patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/

Been a while since I've posted on here.

Quote(s):
"Jumping off of Washington’s nose on Mount Rushmore would be fatal. [...] But Bloom did not jump off anything when the band played the Mount Rushmore festival [...] because no band has ever played the Mount Rushmore festival...

...because it does not exist." (emphasis mine)

"Yet [...] fans over the years told Bloom they remembered seeing him make that leap."

#patheos #conspiracytheories #blueoystercult #slacktivist

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Nonilex · @Nonilex
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Inside a 's unsuccessful campaign to find

by Craig Mauger

A years-long investigation by a rural Michigan sheriff's office into of failed to uncover wrongdoing that would have affected the results, according to a review of internal reports about the probe.


detroitnews.com/story/news/pol

#michigan #sheriff #electionfraud #conspiracytheories #voterfraud #detroitnews #darleaf

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Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 · @bibliolater
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Nonilex · @Nonilex
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That report cited the platform’s decision to influential it had once because of deemed , which resulted in some 5,000 -laden posts. Those posts included about George Soros & the Rothschild banking family, often repeating long-standing about controlling , & , as well as statements about Jews pushing a radical agenda to destroy “the West.”

#reinstate #users #banned #posts #antisemitic #conspiracy #disinformation #conspiracytheories #jews #global #politics #finance #media #musk #birdsite

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William Lindsey :toad: · @wdlindsy
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"To ignore Kennedy, or his supporters, on the grounds of their holding such easily falsifiable beliefs seems extremely shortsighted. A lot of Americans believe things that aren’t true—which, given the (literally) whitewashed version of history most of us get taught, shouldn’t be surprising."

~ D.D. Guttenplan

thenation.com/article/politics

#rfkjr #conspiracytheories #AntiIntellectualism #vaccines #antivax

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steve dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
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's 15 Minutes of Shame |

youtube.com/watch?v=EtrdQ7smIu


Marjorie Taylor Greene was first elected to on a platform of some of the craziest you've ever heard of. Unfortunately, she's only gotten worse – “,” “RBG had a body double,” and even “Jewish space lasers” are actual things that have rolled off her tongue. Here is a collection of dissecting some of 's most roast-worthy moments.

#marjorietaylorgreene #thedailyshow #tdsthrowback #dailyshow #comedy #congress #conspiracytheories #qanon #trevornoah #mtg

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Andii אַנדִֽי · @Andii
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"After a lifetime of being told they were on their own, “a subset of the population” doubled down on individualism. It does not, now, seem surprising to Klein that they essentially said, “Fuck you: we won’t mask or jab or stay home to protect people we have already chosen not to see.” Nor that they went looking for pundits and political leaders who reinforced their worldview."
newrepublic.com/article/175254

#conspiracytheories

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Beth P · @BethGMS
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With pieces like this, I keep coming back to an essay I read years ago by @pluralistic about anti-vaxxers. Their conclusions about the dangers of vaccines may be nonsensical, but their general mistrust of medical, scientific and government institutions is not necessarily misplaced. This makes a very similar point about and government secrecy, especially as the internet makes such secrecy impossible to maintain indefinitely.

thenewatlantis.com/publication

#longread #conspiracytheories

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hesgen · @hesgen
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"Demokratie-Monitoring: Ein Fünftel der Deutschen hat rechtspopulistisches Weltbild"

Lest you consider the inner-EU as politically stable and sensible, some 20% of Germans are tin-foil helmets. This is from a study led by Frank Brettschneider at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart. Only one percent of Green Party supporters are nutters, he finds.

uni-hohenheim.de/pressemitteil

#rightwingpopulism #conspiracytheories #germany

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Jason Madrid · @JMad17
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theguardian.com/books/2023/aug

TL;DR - Writer Naomi Klein keeps being mistaken for her -obsessed 'double', Naomi Wolfe."

Quote(s):
"For years the writer laughed off being mistaken for fellow author Naomi Wolf. Then her ‘double’ drifted into a world of and became a favoured guest of and . With the US standing on a political precipice, suddenly the stakes were a lot higher."

#misinformation #conservatives #uspolitics #uspol #tuckercarlson #stevebannon #conspiracytheories #qanon

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ZhiZhu · @ZhiZhu
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@maryeffrancis

Your comment reminded me of an essay entitled, "Alex Jones and the kitten burners" which describes some people's need to someone in order to feel good about themselves. And the problems that can lead to.

"They need to feel 'better-than' more than they want to be simply good"
~Fred Clark
patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/

Written in 2017, but it's even more relevant now (re: ...).

#hate #nopaywall #lgbtq #womensrights #conspiracy #conspiracytheories #hypocisy #righteousness #essay

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William Lindsey :toad: · @wdlindsy
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"The GOP has a crowded field of habitual liars. But Ramaswamy is perhaps the current master of what Kate McKinnon’s SNL version of Laura Ingraham described as 'feel facts, which aren’t technically true but just feel true.'

Ramaswamy’s favorite rhetorical tactic is to label a transparent falsehood as a 'truth,' and to then declare that a corresponding fact is a 'hoax.'”

~ David Lurie

publicnotice.co/p/vivek-ramasw

#vivek #ramaswamy #lies #conspiracytheories

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