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How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis
These steps, experts say, could prod more people to abandon the scourge of hoaxes and lies.
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QAnon believers struggle with inauguration.
As President Biden took office, some QAnon believers tried to rejigger their theories to accommodate a...
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QAnon's 'Meme Queen' Marches On
Valerie Gilbert posts dozens of times a day in support of an unhinged conspiracy theory. The...
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Twitter Removes Over 70,000 QAnon Accounts
The actions followed the barring of President Trump from the service last week, as Twitter has...
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QAnon Struggles After Trump Election Defeat
For years, followers of the pro-Trump conspiracy theory had been assured that the president would win...
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Study Considers a Link Between QAnon and Polling Errors
New research indicates that pollsters may not have captured the Trump support swirling around the online...
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QAnon Supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Headed to Congress
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s victory in Georgia underscores an uncomfortable truth for Republicans: The 2020 election brought...
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Instagram Tries Clamping Down on Misinformation
The photo-sharing site said it would temporarily remove its “recent” tab to slow the spread of...
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What Went Viral This Week
Halloween decorations, Harry Styles and a QAnon-adjacent missing children story broke up a wall of pre-election...
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TikTok Cracks Down on QAnon and Hate Speech
TikTok’s changes follow in the footsteps of its larger and more popular contemporaries.
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YouTube Cracks Down on QAnon Conspiracy Theory
YouTube has played a bigger role in moving QAnon from the fringes to the mainstream than...
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Facebook Bans Content About Holocaust Denial From Its Site
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, once cited Holocaust denial as something he would allow on the...
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QAnon Believers Say Being Banned From Facebook Is Proof of the Conspiracy
Hours after Facebook cracked down on all QAnon groups, pages, and Instagram accounts, conspiracists integrated the...
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Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Addictive Right Now
QAnon, #TrumpCovidHoax and other conspiracy theories may be part of a larger authority crisis created by...
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Facebook Amps Up Its Crackdown on QAnon
The company said an earlier effort to curb the conspiracy movement’s growth didn’t properly address its...
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Following Falsehoods: A Reporter’s Approach on QAnon
Kevin Roose, a Times tech columnist, has watched the baseless conspiracy theory grow from fringe internet...
