Category: Media Literacy
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Debunking the code words claim: what the Podesta emails actually said
A factual breakdown of the Podesta email language conspiracy theorists reinterpreted, and what cheese pizza, pasta, and handkerchief references actually meant.
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Legitimate questions vs. conspiracy theories: drawing the line
Skepticism is healthy; conspiracy thinking is corrosive. Here’s how to tell genuine institutional critique from the patterns that mark organized conspiracy theories.
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Marketing moves faster than science
By the time research is settled, marketing has already sold a generation on the conclusion. Here’s why the gap matters and how to read around it.
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The Loose Change effect: how a 2005 internet documentary shaped a generation
Loose Change wasn’t the first 9/11 conspiracy film, but it was the one that mass internet distribution made unstoppable. Its real legacy is the playbook.
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Pizzagate explained: how a debunked conspiracy theory spread from 4chan to the mainstream
A timeline of how misread John Podesta emails in 2016 produced a baseless trafficking conspiracy that ended with a man firing a rifle inside a DC restaurant.