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Wildfire of Conspiracy Theories: Disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories about the Los Angeles area wildfires have spread in far right spaces online.
Wildfire of Conspiracy Theories
Disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories about the Los Angeles area wildfires have spread in far right spaces online.
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President-elect Donald Trump blamed California’s devastating wildfires on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s water policy, and social media users revived Trump’s past criticism of the state’s forest management. We took a closer look at the claims. www.politifact.com/article/2025...
Trump fueled falsehoods while LA burned
President-elect Donald Trump and some social media users and pundits blamed Los Angeles’ deadly fires on California Gov.
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"Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories" www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/t...
Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories | CNN Business
Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its US-based fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder.
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Some AI-generated images are difficult to spot. Others ...
In the space of 24 hours, Naomi Wolf has claimed that the fires in LA are an actual war or foreign invasion, a plot to kill people to destroy evidence of Covid vaccine adverse effects, weather manipulation, a deliberate bombing campaign, and mass spraying of mood stabilisers.
No source for this quote among Orwell's writings has been located, and the earliest published source of this phrase found dates to 1982. quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/t...
🌎🧸🇺🇸🪶💙🇺🇦Quack@twistedtenyce.bsky.social · 2y ago
Russia's online disinformation campaign took my advice and started deepfaking audio of the people it's quoting. This is deepfake me with the wrong British accent talking about the Kursk offensive.
While the press has focused on the ending of Meta's fact-checking program, not enough has focused on the removal of restrictions on certain types of speech previously deemed harmful on FB & IG, incl. criticism of vulnerable groups—immigrants, women and LGBTQ+ people. about.fb.com/news/2025/01...
More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta
We're ending our third party fact checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.
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"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
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X's Community Notes is slow, opaque, and relies on consensus rather than a focus on truth. In other words, it has features that Zuckerberg and Musk regularly criticise in the so-called "legacy media" bsky.app/profile/jane...
Jane Lytvynenko@janelytv.bsky.social · 2y agoOver the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation. Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices, saying that the election felt like a "cultural tipping point."
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This article has been updated with yet another Rumble "editor pick" video pushing the reptilian conspiracy theory, this one claiming that a "reptilian race controls Earth" and are trying to create a "one-world government."
![January 6, 2025: Rumble selected as one of its “editor picks” a video claiming that a “reptilian race controls Earth” and are trying to create a “one-world government” — a conspiracy theory reportedly tied to violence and antisemitism. The video from the show The Why Files, titled “The Seventh Experiment: Lacerta Reveals the Truth of our Creation,” claims that a lizard figure named Lacerta (which is also the name of a type of lizard) admitted that reptilians roam the world and use telepathy to “command” people to see them “as normal humans,” despite their “reptilian look.” The Why Files’ episode thumbnail includes an apparent image of Lacerta.
The show’s host claims that “another reptilian race controls Earth” and are “disguised as leaders in finance, media, and politics” in order to “manipulate global events, steering us toward a one-world government.” He also mentions David Icke, who originally popularized the reptilian conspiracy theory, saying that Lacerta “confirms a lot of” Icke’s claims. Business Insider in 2021 covered the likely antisemitic background of the concept, noting that Icke’s written commentary about the conspiracy theory is “clearly evocative of the centuries-old blood-libel conspiracy theory, which alleged that a cabal of Jews were controlling the world and drinking the blood of Christian children.” [The Why Files, 1/4/25; Rumble, 1/4/25; The Guardian, 4/17/16, 2/20/19; BBC, 4/7/20; Business Insider, 1/7/21]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreigb64blcmfvnzybjnhetfzfz6itsvkn24op743zeysokfi7mshkdu)
Alex Kaplan@alkapdc.bsky.social · 2y ago-Lizard people -QAnon -9/11 Trutherism -Flat Earth Rumble's source code calls its “editor picks” section the “absolute real best of" the platform, but an ongoing @mmfa.bsky.social review found that the section repeatedly features conspiracy theories. My newest reporting:
In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce an Estonian politician and propagandist, Aivo Peterson. He’s best-known for travelling to Donbas and Mariupol to produce pro-Kremlin propaganda, and for trying to create a pro-Russia separatist movement in Estonia. 1/16
While there was so much focus on Shamsud-Din Jabbar's YouTube channel and LinkedIn profile earlier, his deleted Facebook page seems to have been the one with clear evidence of his radicalisation.
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 2y agoNew Orleans attack suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar discussed plans to kill his family and having dreams that inspired him to join Islamic State in a series of videos, CNN reports. None of these videos currently exist on his already identified social media platforms. edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/u...
An AI image linked to a meme coin spread across platforms last week in posts misidentifying the woman set on fire on New York's subway as "Amelia Carter." Today, police named the true victim: Debrina Kawam. But the disinformation had already spun out of control. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Get ready for 2025. Science is your friend. Anti-science and anti-intellectualism are your enemies. skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...
A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer
Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...
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We wrote about a lot of misinformation in 2024, and, as usual, some fact-checking articles piqued our readers’ interest more than others. In this post, we present the 10 most popular stories published on our website this past year. www.factcheck.org/2024/12/our-...
Our Most Popular Articles in 2024 - FactCheck.org
We wrote about a lot of misinformation in 2024, and, as usual, some fact-checking articles piqued our readers' interest more than others. In this post, we present the 10 most popular stories published...
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❌ This pic of Laura Loomer has gathered 4k likes on Bluesky with a caption saying it shows her demanding her X blue checkmark back at the old Twitter HQ. Except it's an old photo. @willsommer.bsky.social and others posted it back in 2018:
More Ai slop. And as usual we have lots of real photos of mr. Wadlow. He was tall, very tall, but somehow someone wanted to make him even taller.
When Bush 41 died, QAnon gurus spread insane conspiracy theories that cabal members got mysterious envelopes at his funeral, that his casket had a wrinkled flag because he was a traitor, and that James Comey leaked his execution. I imagine we'll see similar nonsense for President Carter.
A Colorado man is facing bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying “This is Trump’s America now”. The reporter told police that he believed he had been attacked because he is Pacific Islander. apnews.com/article/tv-r...
Man accused of attacking TV reporter, saying 'This is Trump's America now'
Court documents show a Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying “This is Trump...
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PLEASE stop offering this scumbag your condolences and learn how to do a reverse image search. This is a stolen image of a cat named Cheddar. He lives in Korea and he's fine: www.instagram.com/c.c.c__cat/r...
Cat Lover Family@catloverfamily.bsky.social · 2y agoMy baby died today. She was 9 years old. My god I'm going to miss her so much
This image purporting to show a racist object decorating Tim Walz's home is doctored. The Minnesota governor's original photo does not include the item -- it is a ceramic ashtray in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
