politics of the united states
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Surprising No One, Giuliani Says He Got His Intel About Election Fraud Off of Facebook
Just like your misguided boomer parents and estranged family members, Rudy Giuliani gleaned his supposed “evidence” of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election from unvetted posts on Facebook and other social media platforms.
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Lauren Boebert Spends Drought Hearing Rambling About ‘Green New Deal Extremists’
Rep. Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting, Trump-loving, riot-goading, Congresswoman from Colorado, has a new conspiratorial obsession. And she’s fixated on it rather than working to address the multiple environmental crises facing her state.
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Parler Says It Warned the FBI of Violent Posts Threatening the U.S. Capitol Before Insurrection
Parler, the online safe haven for bigots and far-right extremists, claims it repeatedly alerted the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation about “specific threats of violence being planned at the Capitol” ahead of the deadly January 7 insurrection, the company’s lawyers said in a letter to lawmakers dated Thursday.
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QAnon, CultTok, and Leaving It All Behind
“I was impressed that it only took four years,” Danielle, self-identified ex-cult member, 34, said on a phone call. This was a few days after Joe Biden’s inauguration, and we were talking about the previous week of SOS social media posts from wide-eyed QAnon followers, like a TikToker propped up on a pillow, pleading, like…