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January 29, 2023

Michigan Daily: The TikTok detectives have gone too far with the Idaho murders

Michigan Daily: The TikTok detectives have gone too far with the Idaho murders . “Curiosity is natural, especially with a case as jarring and gruesome as this. There is a difference, however, between theorizing in a casual, private manner and mindlessly pointing fingers at innocent individuals on a public social media account, one that true crime content creators have utterly failed at distinguishing in the case of the Idaho murders. “

January 26, 2023

Washington State University: COVID-19 conspiracy theories that spread fastest focused on evil, secrecy

Washington State University: COVID-19 conspiracy theories that spread fastest focused on evil, secrecy. “In the early pandemic, conspiracy theories that were shared the most on Twitter highlighted malicious purposes and secretive actions of supposed bad actors behind the crisis, according to an analysis of nearly 400,000 posts.”

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January 16, 2023

Bloomberg: Conspiracy Theories Prompt Top Finnish Health Authority to Quit Twitter

Bloomberg: Conspiracy Theories Prompt Top Finnish Health Authority to Quit Twitter. “The rampant spread of conspiracy theories on Twitter has pushed Finland’s top health authority to stop using the platform to disseminate its public-health messages.”

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January 15, 2023

Rolling Stone: Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble. Who’s Winning?

Rolling Stone: Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble. Who’s Winning?. “The outsider streaming site that just partnered up with Donald Trump Jr. is growing — but not in the way most people think.”

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January 8, 2023

Poynter: Misinformation is swirling online about COVID-19 vaccines and Damar Hamlin’s collapse

Poynter: Misinformation is swirling online about COVID-19 vaccines and Damar Hamlin’s collapse. “Hamlin tackled Cincinnati Bengals receiver Tee Higgins during a Jan. 2 game at Paycor Stadium. As millions watched, Hamlin stood up after the hit and moments later fell to the ground. Social media users seized on the incident and used it to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines contributed to Hamlin’s cardiac arrest.”

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January 6, 2023

CNET: QAnon Conspiracy Theory Channel Appears on Roku Lineup

CNET: QAnon Conspiracy Theory Channel Appears on Roku Lineup. “Roku has a new channel in its lineup that’s full of misinformation, such as content regarding QAnon, debunked vaccine conspiracies and false information about COVID-19. Roku says it’s looking into the conspiracy theory channel, which was reported on earlier by Media Matters.”

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January 1, 2023

Andrew Tate arrest: TikTok and Twitter under fire over false posts from fans (The Guardian)

The Guardian: Andrew Tate arrest: TikTok and Twitter under fire over false posts from fans. “Social media firms are under fire this weekend for allowing the spread of misinformation by followers of ‘king of toxic masculinity’ Andrew Tate after his arrest in connection with a human trafficking investigation. In the hours after his detention, TikTok and Twitter were flooded with posts falsely claiming he had been freed and conspiracy theories saying he had been set up, Observer analysis shows.”

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December 20, 2022

New York Post: How Dallas homemaker Mary Ferrell became main collector of JFK assassination records

New York Post: How Dallas homemaker Mary Ferrell became main collector of JFK assassination records. “Ferrell became so influential in the community of JFK historians that two years before her death in 2004, a Boston-based financier started a non-profit to digitize her trove of documents. Now based in Ipswich, Mass., the Mary Ferrell Foundation Inc has sued the federal government to obtain classified documents related to Kennedy’s death.”

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December 15, 2022

Washington Post: QAnon, adrift after Trump’s defeat, finds new life in Elon Musk’s Twitter

Washington Post: QAnon, adrift after Trump’s defeat, finds new life in Elon Musk’s Twitter. “Twitter owner Elon Musk’s boosting of far-right memes and grievances has injected new energy into the jumbled set of conspiracy theories known as QAnon, a fringe movement that Twitter and other social networks once banned as too extreme.”

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December 7, 2022

Wall Street Journal: Germany Dismantles Suspected QAnon-Inspired Terrorist Group

Wall Street Journal: Germany Dismantles Suspected QAnon-Inspired Terrorist Group. “The group was inspired by the QAnon conspiracy that has spread worldwide from the U.S. and has been linked to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, as well as the German Reichsbürger, or Citizens of the Reich, movement, which rejects the German state and its institutions, the prosecutor said.”

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October 30, 2022

Associated Press: Musk tweets link to an unfounded conspiracy theory

Associated Press: Musk tweets link to an unfounded conspiracy theory. “Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted a link to an unfounded rumor about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, just days after Musk’s purchase of Twitter fueled concerns that the social media platform would no longer seek to limit misinformation and hate speech. Musk’s tweet, which he later deleted, linked to an article by a fringe website, the Santa Monica Observer, an outlet that has previously asserted that Hillary Clinton died on Sept. 11 and was replaced with a body double.”

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October 7, 2022

Vice: Trump’s Social Media Platform Is Now Showing Ads Targeting QAnon Believers

Vice: Trump’s Social Media Platform Is Now Showing Ads Targeting QAnon Believers. “Former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social has become such a hive of QAnon activity that even advertisers are now trying to take advantage.”

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October 4, 2022

Brookings Institution: U.S. podcasters spread Kremlin narratives on Nord Stream sabotage

Brookings Institution: U.S. podcasters spread Kremlin narratives on Nord Stream sabotage. “Using a new Brookings dashboard and database, we are able to more systematically study how popular political podcasts shape the information environment. By spreading the idea that the United States was in fact responsible for the explosions, several leading U.S. podcasters have advanced the Kremlin’s preferred narrative while staying under the radar of researchers—until now.”

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September 22, 2022

BuzzFeed News: The YouTube Channel Streaming Alex Jones’s Trial Disabled The Chat Because Of Threats To Sandy Hook Victims’ Families

BuzzFeed News: The YouTube Channel Streaming Alex Jones’s Trial Disabled The Chat Because Of Threats To Sandy Hook Victims’ Families. “The trial, which is being livestreamed in its entirety on YouTube by the Law & Crime channel, has had thousands of viewers each day since it began last week, although Jones himself has yet to testify. As always on Law & Crime’s streams, there are hundreds of active and colorful commenters, but trial viewers and Twitter users had noted from day one that the chat was littered with the same conspiracy theories that Jones now faces paying damages for.”

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Washington Post: QAnon, adrift after Trump’s defeat, finds new life in Elon Musk’s Twitter

Brookings Institution: U.S. podcasters spread Kremlin narratives on Nord Stream sabotage

BuzzFeed News: The YouTube Channel Streaming Alex Jones’s Trial Disabled The Chat Because Of Threats To Sandy Hook Victims’ Families

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