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American support for conspiracy theories and armed rebellion isn’t new – we just didn’t believe it before the Capitol insurrection | The Conversation
by Amanda J. Crawford
January 4, 2022
Americans had to confront a new reality when an angry mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021: Some…
Video: How U.S. social media conspiracy theories made Europeans skeptical of the Covid vaccine | NBC
by Brandy Zadrozny
December 1, 2021
NBC News' Brandy Zadrozny reports on how people in Europe are skeptical of the Covid-19 vaccine due to conspiracy theories…
Big Oil Gets Grilled by Congress Over Climate Disinformation | Foreign Policy
by Anna Weber
November 2, 2021
On Thursday, top executives from Exxon Mobil, BP America, Chevron, and Shell—some of America’s largest oil companies—testified for the first…
A Short History of Conservative Trolling | Intelligencer
by Rick Perlstein
October 28, 2021
David Frum, the former George W. Bush speechwriter and current never-Trump conservative, recently wrote, “The post-Trump right has a style…
How Misinformation Threatened a Montana National Heritage Area | The New York Times
by Reid J. Epstein
October 26, 2021
GREAT FALLS, Mont. — In the summer of 2020, as pandemic shutdowns closed businesses and racial justice protests erupted on…
Facebook Papers: ‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’ | The Atlantic
by Adrienne LaFrance
October 26, 2021
Before I tell you what happened at exactly 2:28 p.m. on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the White House—and how…
For scores of years, newspapers printed hate, leading to racist terror lynchings and massacres of Black Americans | The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
by DeNeen L. Brown
October 21, 2021
For decades, hundreds of white-owned newspapers across the country incited the racist terror lynchings and massacres of thousands of Black…
Why Public Health Is in Crisis: Threats, Departures, New Laws | The New York Times
by Mike Baker and Danielle Ivory
October 19, 2021
As she leaves work, Dr. Allison Berry keeps a vigilant eye on her rearview mirror, watching the vehicles around her,…
What the Pfizer-approval story says about our media ecosystem | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
August 26, 2021
In recent weeks, amid broader questions about the surge of the Delta coronavirus variant in the US and the vaccination…