How mainstream media helps weaponize far-right conspiracy theories
- Written by Heather Woods, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technology, Kansas State University
Are there invisible forces at work in the world?Grzegorz Zdziarski/Shutterstock.comOnce 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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