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The Case Against Social Media: Mass Misinformation in the Covid-19 Era
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The Case Against Social Media: Mass Misinformation in the Covid-19 Era
October 9, 2020

Americans are now witnessing a new era of conspiracy mongering and fake news via the rise of the fringe “QAnon” movement, among a plethora of paranoid claims that Covid-19 is an elite-fueled hoax and that it was secretly created by powerful people working in the shadows.

America: Land of the Free… and Conspiracy Nuts
September 16, 2020

U.S. hit a dangerous threshold when a senior official is warning citizens to arm themselves because “leftwing hit squads” are to seek retribution.

Finian Cunningham
America: Land of the Free… and Conspiracy Nuts
Society
Election Meddlers Find a Scapegoat
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Election Meddlers Find a Scapegoat
September 15, 2020

Big Tech, government agencies, and the mainstream media all locked in on a no-name site as a hub of collusion Peter Van BUREN Like me, until recently you got most of your news from PeaceData.net. It was where you looked to […]

QAnon Is a Fake, Decoy Imitation of a Healthy Revolutionary Impulse
August 21, 2020

If we were intrinsically wicked and unwise their propaganda wouldn’t hook us by telling us to fight tyranny, defend children and tell the truth — it would hook us using our cowardice, our hatred, our greed, our sadism. People are basically good, and propagandists use that goodness to trick us.

QAnon Is a Fake, Decoy Imitation of a Healthy Revolutionary Impulse
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Russophobia Goes Viral Again… And Fatally No Cure
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Russophobia Goes Viral Again… And Fatally No Cure
July 31, 2020

As certain nations undergo political and economic disruption from the pandemic, there is a tendency to find a scapegoat to “explain” the crisis.

Some Conspiracy Theories Are for Real
July 2, 2020

What is the best way to debunk a conspiracy theory? Call it a conspiracy theory, a label which in and of itself implies disbelief.

Philip Giraldi
Some Conspiracy Theories Are for Real
Society
The COVID-19 Conspiracies of German Neo-Nazis
The COVID-19 Conspiracies of German Neo-Nazis
May 26, 2020

Thanks to the fear of the ongoing Corona crisis, the propaganda machine of German Neo-Nazis is running hot. Because of the scale of the pandemic, Corona is the defining theme of all public debates, so they spread conspiracies while staging themselves as helpers in need.

This Is Not a Conspiracy, It Is a Terrifying Opportunity
May 8, 2020

Conspiracies actually work to the benefit of established forms of power. We only need to remind ourselves here of the ways the United States government was active in the peddling of UFO conspiracies in Nevada during the 1980’s, in order to hide its testing of advanced military technologies.

This Is Not a Conspiracy, It Is a Terrifying Opportunity
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