Disinformation

"You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."

Doctor Who

Disinformation
Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Eyes Blockchain to Solve Data-Privacy Crisis    [archive]
The country inoculating against disinformation - BBC Future    [archive]
Propaganda and the people who turn lies into reality the subject of Invisible Rulers Watch    [archive]
WhistleBlowing Russian Troll Gets Her Day In Court    [archive]
Tucker Carlson Announces Interview With Vladimir Putin    [archive]
RightWing Platform ParlerLinked With Kanye Alex Jones And Jan 6 Sold Shuts Down For Now    [archive]
Why People Fall For Conspiracy Theories FiveThirtyEight    [archive]
Trump Cure Hydroxychloriquine Linked to 17000 Deaths Study    [archive]
Fox News Hosts Didn't Believe Election Fraud Claims, Court Filings Reveal HuffPost Latest News    [archive]
Joe Rogan Backtracks On His Claim That School Has Litter Box For Kid   [archive]
MyPillow CEO and election denier Mike Lindell accused of stiffing vendor out of nearly $600,000    [✚ add]
How glorifying ignorance leads to science illiteracy - Big Think    [✚ add]
How to Know What's Really Propaganda - The Atlantic   [✚ add]

Qanon
Mike Lindell Gave MyPillow Promotional Deal to QAnon Shows Report    [archive]
Debunking the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory that the Texas school shooting was a false flag operation    [archive]
How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks Of Birds    [archive]
Director of 'Q Into the Storm', Cullen Hoback, on Ron Watkins running for Congress in Arizona - YouTube    [archive]
QAnon-induced conspiracies are tearing family apart - Washington Post    [archive]
Alex Kaplan on Twitter Since Biden was inaugurated, QAnon supporters have pushed false claims of supposed proof that Biden h    [archive]
Alex Kaplan on Twitter A false conspiracy theory has spread widely in the far-right internet (not just within the QAnon comm    [archive]
QAnon's Coronavirus-Fueled Boom Is A Warning Of What's To Come HuffPost    [archive]
Build Your Own Conspiracy Theory Kit - Dissent Pins    [archive]
HBO's QAnon documentary 'Q Into the Storm' searches for its origins but misses its meaning   [archive]
Greene says she no longer believes QAnon conspiracy theory    [✚ add]
'They Like Me Very Much' Trump Discusses The QAnon Conspiracy Theory Movement NBC News NOW - YouTube    [✚ add]
QAnon reshaped Trump's party and radicalized believers. The Capitol siege may just be the start. - The Washington Post   [✚ add]

How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable - The New York Times    [archive]
The Legal Defense For Fox's Tucker Carlson He Can't Be Literally Believed NPR    [archive]
What to Know About Tucker Carlson's Rise - The New York Times    [archive]
How 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' Fuels Extremism and Fear - The New York Times    [archive]
Tucker Carlson's 'End of Men' Doc Mocked as Homoerotic 'This is So Gay'   [archive]
Trump envoy blasted over 'insane' Putin comments in Tucker Carlson interview    [✚ add]
McConnell pans Heritage Foundation for its defense of Tucker Carlson's Nick Fuentes interview - POLITICO    [✚ add]
Antisemitic Podcaster Calls Tucker Carlson Too Antisemitic    [✚ add]
Trump defends Tucker Carlson after interview with white nationalist    [✚ add]
Tucker Carlson says Trump administration is using Charlie Kirk's killing to trample First Amendment   [✚ add]

The Sunk Cost Fallacy How It Affects Your Decisions    [archive]
Leah Remini Sues Church of Scientology for Psychological Torture Variety    [archive]
Christian Leader Warns Trump Allies Hijacked Name of Jesus    [archive]
Trump Bucks promise wealth for MAGA loyalty Some lose thousands    [archive]
A neuroscientist warns Were watching the largest and most dangerous cult in American history Raw Story Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism   [archive]
QAnon latest Trump-linked conspiracy theory gains steam at president's rallies US news The Guardian   [✚ add]

Elon Musk goes all in for Trump Its America that will pay the price    [archive]
Twitter suspends account tracking Elon Musks jet Reuters    [archive]
Metas Threads app surpasses 10 million signups in 7 hours Mobile Marketing Reads    [archive]
Biden Could Kill Musks Twitter Deal If US Does Security Review    [archive]
JK Rowling And Elon Musk Named In Olympian Imane Khelifs Cyber Harassment Lawsuit   [archive]
Report China, Russia fueling QAnon conspiracy theories    [✚ add]
Capitol Riot Exposed QAnon's Violent Potential    [✚ add]
She was a popular yoga guru. Then she embraced QAnon conspiracy theories NCPR News   [✚ add]

Social Media
The US military is embedded in the gaming world Its target teen recruits US military The Guardian    [archive]
In 2019, Almost All of Facebook's Top Christian Pages Were Run By Foreign Troll Farms - RELEVANT    [archive]
Congress is about to ban TikTok from U.S. government phones in spending bill NPR    [archive]
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022 Pew Research Center    [archive]
A 2-Year Study of More Than 5,000 People Shows This 1 Activity Destroys Your Emotional and Physical Health   [archive]
Australia will enforce a social media ban for children under 16 despite a court challenge    [✚ add]
How being "Chatfished" has become the latest dating red flag    [✚ add]
Opinion- Is a US news 'nexit' underway, and how can we stop it-   [✚ add]