Articles tagged with
Conspiracy
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False claims that pandemic treaty abolishes nations’ sovereignty and allows WHO to impose health policies circulate on social media
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Countries that sign pandemic treaty cede their sovereignty to the WHO, allowing WHO to control domestic policies, force vaccination, lockdowns, and arrest of vaccine opponents
Source: The People’s Voice, Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-06-06 -
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Colored squares on toothpaste tubes guide machines during production, aren’t secret codes for ingredients
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Blocks of color printed on toothpaste tubes indicate whether the toothpaste is made of safe ingredients
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Carlos Juico, Social media users, 2024-01-04 -
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Social media account “I AM Awakened” exploits seasonal illness surge to promote conspiracy that chemicals in food cause a “plandemic”
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The pandemic was planned; respiratory illness surge in New York and China isn’t airborne but due to chlorine and benzene in food and water
Source: I AM Awakened, Alexander Cole, 2023-12-31 -
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Conspiracy theory about the deaths of alternative medicine practitioners ignores evidence, misrepresents certain doctors
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Doctors murdered to protect Big Pharma profits and silence holistic health practitioners
Source: TikTok, Katryna Benson, 2023-07-04 -
Authorities undertaking climate action targeted by viral “Climate lockdowns” narrative on social media
The increasing number of measures to limit greenhouse gas pollution that can be expected in the future will certainly present opportunities for future weaponization and misrepresentation. Writers, editors, and journalists should be aware of these manipulation tactics when discussing the aftermath of COVID-19 restrictions or future climate policies, knowing that some actors are trawling for any evidence to boost the manufactured ‘climate lockdown’ outrage.
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Financial analyst David Martin misrepresents studies and patent applications to promote the baseless claim that SARS-CoV-2 was developed as a bioweapon
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“SARS is the research developed by humans, weaponizing a life system model to actually attack human beings”
Source: International COVID-19 Summit III, David Martin, 2023-05-03 -
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The film “Died Suddenly” rehashes debunked claims and conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccines
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COVID-19 vaccines are linked to abnormal blood clotting, sudden deaths, world depopulation
Source: Stew Peters Network, Twitter/X, Theresa Long, Steve Kirsch, Richard Hirschman, 2022-11-21 -
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Persistent myths that HIV was created by the West and that HIV medication causes HIV are both false
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“HIV was an invention created by the West”, people “took the HIV medication and got HIV”, you can “reverse HIV naturally”
Source: Facebook, Yahdan Yada, 2022-04-25 -
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Conspiracy theorists claim that 5G increases vulnerability to COVID-19 with baseless theory that it affects hemoglobin
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Coronavirus pandemic would likely not be nearly as bad if 5G exposure/radiation pollution wasn’t already compromising the structure and function of hemoglobin cells.
Source: Natural News, Mike Adams, 2020-04-06