Disinformation

"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth."

George Orwell

Disinformation
Stephen King Interview Holly AntiVaxxers LCD Soundsystem Rolling Stone    [archive]
The Disappearing Tucker Carlson    [archive]
Notes on an Authoritarian Conspiracy Inside the Claremont Institute's "79 Days to Inauguration" Report - The Bulwark    [archive]
The quack behind the MSG scare is still stoking fear for profit The Outline    [archive]
FACT FOCUS Gaping holes in the claim of 2K ballot 'mules' AP News    [archive]
We Found the One Group of Americans Who Are Most Likely to Spread Fake News - POLITICO    [archive]
Mozilla Foundation - Protests, the Pandemic, and Misinformation A June 30 Virtual Panel    [archive]
School Leaders Scramble to Fight Lies About Critical Race Theory    [archive]
What's Behind the Confidence of the Incompetent This Suddenly Popular Psychological Phenomenon.    [archive]
Tucker Carlson Accuses Ukraine of Blowing up Dam in First Twitter Show   [archive]
GOP jump-starts 2024 election challenges with Trump-inspired lawsuits    [✚ add]
Tim Pool Pushes Pro-Russia Propaganda Blasting Ukraine    [✚ add]
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Book Is Now Out And Critics Are Suggesting A Scathing New Use   [✚ add]

Qanon
Build Your Own Conspiracy Theory Kit - Dissent Pins    [archive]
Misinformation Monitor August 2022 - NewsGuard    [archive]
Twitter blocks 70,000 QAnon accounts after US Capitol riot - syracuse.com    [archive]
I'm a Parkland Shooting Survivor. QAnon Convinced My Dad It Was All a Hoax.    [archive]
Twitter has suspended 70,000 QAnon accounts since U.S. Capitol riot    [archive]
A new book explains how QAnon took hold of the GOP - and why it's not going away NPR    [archive]
Marjorie Taylor Greene shared antisemitic and Islamophobic video - The Jerusalem Post    [archive]
Eric Hananoki on Twitter In 2017, as the AJC's @politicalinsidr reported last year (https __t.co_FNUpriAxGI), GOP candidate    [archive]
Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They're finding QAnon instead. MIT Technology Review    [archive]
Michigan father shot his family, police say. His daughter blames QAnon. - The Washington Post   [archive]
Twitter has suspended 70,000 QAnon accounts since U.S. Capitol riot    [✚ add]
The murder of an alleged gangster on Staten Island loops in an unexpected figure- QAnon - The Washington Post    [✚ add]
QAnonCasualties   [✚ add]

Tucker Carlson Asked Hunter Biden For Help With His Son's Georgetown Application HuffPost Latest News    [archive]
What to Know About Tucker Carlson's Rise - The New York Times    [archive]
How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable - The New York Times    [archive]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson tells interviewer 'I lie' Fox News The Guardian    [archive]
PolitiFact Tucker Carlson feigned ignorance over 'great replacement theory,' despite talking about it often   [archive]
Heritage president backs Tucker Carlson after interview with Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes    [✚ add]
Heritage board member resigns over organization's defense of Tucker Carlson    [✚ add]
The Right's Identity Crisis- Ben Shapiro Becomes Its Moral Leader by Calling Out Tucker Carlson    [✚ add]
Tucker Carlson- Trump Shooter Was a Trump-Backing Radical - and the FBI Covered It Up    [✚ add]
'Antisemite of the Year' finalists include Tucker Carlson and Ms. Rachel, but not Nick Fuentes   [✚ add]

The Sunk Cost Fallacy How It Affects Your Decisions    [archive]
Christian Leader Warns Trump Allies Hijacked Name of Jesus    [archive]
Video Clinton calls for formal deprogramming of MAGA cult members CNN Politics    [archive]
Marshall Applewhite Wikipedia    [archive]
The 9 Most Common Personality Traits In Cult Leaders   [archive]
How journalists should not cover an online conspiracy theory Opinion The Guardian   [✚ add]

David Weissman on Twitter I still think Elon Musk owning Twitter is a bad idea He will amplify racists bigots and misinfo    [archive]
Elon Musk moves SpaceXs state of registration to Texas from Delaware after East Coast state struck down his massive 56 billion pay package Daily Mail Online    [archive]
Twitter is tanking amid Threads surging popularity analysts say Ars Technica    [archive]
Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All XTwitter Users a Fee Variety    [archive]
Teslas recall of 2 million cars relies on a fix that may not even work Fortune   [archive]
Greene says she no longer believes QAnon conspiracy theory    [✚ add]
QAnon's 'Meme Queen' Marches On - The New York Times    [✚ add]
Man pleads guilty to terrorism charge after blocking Hoover Dam bridge with armored truck - ABC News   [✚ add]

Social Media
In Scathing Exit Memo, John Carmack Derides Meta Bureaucracy    [archive]
How to Identify the 4 Subtle Steps a Narcissist Takes Before Invading Your Life    [archive]
Positano, the Instagram capital of the world, is a terrible place to be - Vox    [archive]
Lawsuit alleges that social media companies promoted White supremacist propaganda that led to radicalization of Buffalo mass shooter CNN Business    [archive]
Whats next for Congress controversial child safety legislation The Verge   [archive]
Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media _ The New Yorker    [✚ add]
Social media platforms engaged in 'vast surveillance' and failed to protect young people, FTC finds    [✚ add]
Hobby enjoyed by millions of young people linked to risk of serious mental illness   [✚ add]