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How mainstream media helps weaponize far-right conspiracy theories

  • Written by Heather Woods, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technology, Kansas State University
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Once an anti-Semitic rumor moved from fringe to the mainstream, it took less than two weeks for violence to erupt. The false allegation that liberal philanthropist George Soros was funding or supporting a caravan of Honduran refugees heading to the U.S. spread...

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