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Q&A: How Instagram influencers profit from anti-vaccine misinformation

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While Instagram might have a reputation for superficiality—a realm of exquisitely filtered images—it is now eclipsing other social media as a news source. The platform is increasingly filled with information, some of it pernicious and distributed via influencers. Researchers at…[Continue Reading...]

New analysis shows anti-vaccination conspiracy theories gain political weight due to social media

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Heightened use of social media during the coronavirus pandemic brought with it an unprecedented surge in the spread of misinformation. Of particular significance were conspiracy theories surrounding the virus and vaccines made to combat it. Though conspiracy theories about vaccines…[Continue Reading...]

The 2024 Santa Monica Film Festival was chock full of red-pilled conspiracy content

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The 18th annual Santa Monica Film Festival, which held in-person screenings on Saturday, February 3 and which is running online screenings through February 28, chose to feature and then give awards to some dangerous right-wing conspiracy theories masquerading as "documentary"…[Continue Reading...]

Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist guilty of plotting to destroy 5G masts

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An anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist has been found guilty of plotting to destroy 5G masts after subscribing to an ideology that they were linked to the Covid-19 vaccine. Christine Grayson discussed “getting rid” of the mobile phone masts with expanding foam…[Continue Reading...]

The COVID vaccine deniers and QAnon believers coming to speak at the Arizona legislature

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A special committee created by the Arizona legislature to examine the state’s response to COVID-19 will feature a litany of speakers who have spread disinformation about the pandemic, vaccines, spoken at QAnon events and have conspiratorial beliefs about the virus,…[Continue Reading...]

News Organization Punished for Promoting Vaccine ‘Conspiracy’ Theory

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A British news network was censured on Tuesday over a prior incident in which an American author espoused a conspiracy theory about the COVID-19 vaccine without being challenged. The incident occurred last October when author and conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf…[Continue Reading...]

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