coronavirus Self-isolating Oprah Winfrey goaded into "house arrest" denial by conspiracy theorists Rob Beschizza
News Trump honors Qanon 'Democrat pedophile cult' conspiracy pushers with White House visit Xeni Jardin
conspiracies Qanon "codes" are consistent with an English-speaker mashing a QWERTY keyboard Cory Doctorow
Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder
security Facebook & Twitter ban pro-Trump network that reached 55 million accounts with AI-generated faces, Epoch Media Group and Falun Gong links identified Xeni Jardin
surprises Popular new conservative activist turns out to be antisemitic conspiracy theorist Rob Beschizza
innocent until proven guilty Kleptocracy excited by news of pro-Trump candidate's felony theft charges Mark Frauenfelder
epistemological crisis danah boyd explains the connection between the epistemological crisis and the rise of far-right conspiratorial thinking Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The weird grift of "sovereign citizens": where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding Cory Doctorow
picks Are these Crosshairs in Roger Stone's Instagram post attacking Judge Amy Berman Jackson, federal judge in his case? Xeni Jardin
