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Jul 23, 2024 · Cook spent years detailing the intimate personal lives of the five families featured in “The Quiet Damage,” staying in touch with the devastated siblings, parents, children and partners of QAnon believers as they tried desperately to break the conspiracy theory’s hold on their loved ones. The result is as thoughtful ― and as ...
Jul 29, 2024 · In 2021, Cook wrote an article for HuffPost about the struggles of the children of QAnon believers. In the aftermath, she said, she heard from hundreds of people who reached out with stories of ...
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6 days ago · After a QAnon-related conspiracy theory spread on social media that the National Butterfly Center was smuggling immigrants into the US, in late January 2022 two people visited the center referring to "the rafts with the illegal crossing" and to child rape, then reportedly injured the director, Marianna Trevino Wright, and almost struck her son with their vehicle. In response, the center closed for three days the following weekend as a precaution during the We Stand America rally nearby, and ...
6 days ago · “That’s why our curriculum review will develop plans to embed critical skills in lessons to arm our children against the disinformation, fake news and putrid conspiracy theories awash on ...
Aug 10, 2024 · Belief in conspiracy theories stems -- in part -- from negative early childhood experiences with caregivers, new research has shown. In two studies, Ricky Green and Professor Karen Douglas, of the ...
Aug 7, 2024 · Such surveys are the main way of gauging the pervasiveness of conspiracy theories, but they rarely ask respondents if their answers are sincere. ... Examining the only child stereotype. 2.
Aug 1, 2024 · conspiracy theory, an attempt to explain harmful or tragic events as the result of the actions of a small powerful group. Such explanations reject the accepted narrative surrounding those events; indeed, the official version may be seen as further proof of the conspiracy. Conspiracy theories increase in prevalence in periods of widespread ...