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THE RACIST GREAT REPLACEMENT CONSPIRACY THEORY
The concern that non-white people, who are viewed as “less capable,” will replace white majorities is reinforced by the “great replacement” theory, which has its roots in white supremacist ideology. It also has racist hints, at times linking powerful Jews such as George Soros to Jewish individuals or using veiled language directed at “globalists” or…
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Climate Change is Not A Problem
In this video Trump states that climate change can revert. The lady interviewing him mentions Greenland and the ice melting there and raising the water temperatures, Trumps only response is “you don’t know whether that would have happened with to without man”. When referring to things about climate change he has heard, he says “they”…
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Global Warming is Not Real
@cs4humanity DM for solution. No joke you guys😱 ♬ Suspense, horror, piano and music box – takaya This TikTok states that global warming is not a problem we are just entering causes caused by a cosmic influence that occurs every 12000 years. The man states that this is a cycle and that it is just…
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How misinformation on social media has changed news
Micich Intern, Anastasia, et al. “How Misinformation on Social Media Has Changed News.” U.S. PIRG Education Fund, 8 Mar. 2024, pirg.org/edfund/articles/misinformation-on-social-media/#:~:text=By%20nudging%20frequent%20users%20to,fake%20news%20circulating%20on%20Facebook. https://pirg.org/edfund/articles/misinformation-on-social-media/#:~:text=By%20nudging%20frequent%20users%20to,fake%20news%20circulating%20on%20Facebook. This article explains the Social Media influence on other and how it connects with the false disinformation
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Paper Bags Need to Go: Disinformation from YouTube
There is a guy I knew from high school that would often spout unhinged conservative banter. He often posts on YouTube. I will not share the link due to how much personal information he shares online. Recently he made a YouTube video on how plastic is more beneficial to the earth than paper. I think…
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Playing Violent Video Games Causes Mass Violence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362331911001558 It is said that there is a correlation between violent video games and mass school shootings. Many believe that by playing violent video games one will become more and more aggressive and more likely to become a school shooter. This was proven tone wrong. Although such people have had a higher aggression rate while…
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Information and Disinformation about the Ukraine War on Social Media
Dastgeer, Shugofa, and Rashmi Thapaliya. “Information and Disinformation about the Ukraine War on Social Media.” ESSACHESS 16.1 (2023): 93-. Web. https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=86e292db-042e-4349-b478-eeff18d1a7ec%40redis This article debunks the disinformation about the war in Ukraine being spread through social media. This article discusses how both Russia and Ukraine have been spreading disinformation along multiple different social media platforms to…
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Fentanyl-assisted treatment: A possible role in the opioid overdose epidemic? By Geoff Bardwell, Evan Wood, and Rupinder Brar
Beletsky L, Seymour S, Kang S, Siegel Z, Sinha MS, Marino R, Dave A, Freifeld C. Fentanyl panic goes viral: The spread of misinformation about overdose risk from casual contact with fentanyl in mainstream and social media. Int J Drug Policy. 2020 Sep 16;86:102951. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102951. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32949901; PMCID: PMC7492952. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7492952/…
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Analyzing COVID-19 disinformation on Twitter using the Hashtags
Lanier, Heather D et al. “Analyzing COVID-19 Disinformation on Twitter Using the Hashtags #scamdemic and #plandemic: Retrospective Study.” PloS one 17.6 (2022): e0268409–e0268409. Web. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A707969961/AONE?u=sunyo_main&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=1ba63205 The article examines the spread of disinformation about COVID-19 on Twitter using hashtags. The researchers collected and analyzed tweets containing popular hashtags related to the pandemic to identify patterns and…
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