pseudohistory
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The 7 Dumbest Conspiracy Theories About the Baltimore Bridge Collapse
When the Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed in the early morning hours of Tuesday, there was almost immediately chatter on social media about potential conspiracy theories. In reality, the bridge collapsed because a container ship lost power and crashed into a column, causing it to tumble into the river below. But many of the internet’s…
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Twitter Admits It Hid Tweets About HBO’s QAnon Docuseries
For the past year, Twitter has censored tweets about a documentary exploring the origins of the QAnon movement.
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Joe Biden: Facebook’s Not Killing People. My Bad.
Last Friday, Joe Biden told reporters that Facebook was “killing people” by refusing to take action on a number of anti-vax accounts spreading conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and other misinformation about the novel coronavirus pandemic — causing the social network to respond with faux indignation. Now Biden is walking that back, sort of, saying that while…
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Facebook’s Subsea Cables Are The Last Thing Africa Needs
On Monday, Facebook announced it was partnering with Africa’s largest fibre company, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, to build an “extensive” fibre network that’s over 2,000 kilometres long. Per Liquid, this network is one of the most “extensive,” and “difficult” builds that the company’s undertaken, and will require the work of at least 5,000 people from local…