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EXPLAINED: 5 - The Real Truth

#FreeBritney 2.0: Why Britney Spears became a lightning rod for internet conspiracy theories

A wave of online truthers believe Britney has been replaced by a body double with no bottom teeth. Katie Rosseinsky explores why TikTok sleuths have been on the rise since the star’s controversial conservatorship ended

The Independent UK

“Parents’ Rights” Rhetoric Is Rooted in Radical Conspiracy Theories

Why are federal and provincial conservative leaders echoing the talking points of QAnon?

The Walrus

Trump has reason to worry about RFK Jr.

Trump depends on the crank vote that the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist could siphon off

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RFK Jr has a vision to change America. His family say he’s a crackpot

Robert F Kennedy Jr believes he can upend hundreds of years of two-party rule by running a no labels-style, populist campaign. Bevan Hurley reports from Philadelphia’s Independence Hall

The Independent UK

Anti-vax conspiracists believe a phone alert will trigger zombie apocalypse

QAnon is behind the rumour, with UK conspiracy theorists also worried about 5G and vaccines

Evening Standard

First Thing: Kevin McCarthy ousted as House speaker

Vote marks first time in US history that a speaker of the House has been removed from office.

The Guardian - UK

Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs

For 15 years, Brent Lee spent hours each day consuming ‘truther’ content online. Then he logged off. Can he convince his former friends to question their worldview?

The Guardian - UK

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Lin Wood faces wrath of QAnon influencers and GOP allies as he insists he’s not flipping on Trump

Mike Flynn shared a post calling him a rat after Georgia prosecutors named the MAGA lawyer a state witness

The Independent UK

Extremists have turned Texas into a hotbed for hate, report finds

The report blames an “alarming rise in extremist ideology and activity” on white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ+ groups that are active or headquartered in Texas.

The Texas Tribune

Pro-Trump conspiracy theorist lawyer Lin Wood is a witness in Georgia election case, prosecutors say

The QAnon-supporting attorney joined spurious legal efforts to overturn election results

The Independent UK

‘Sound of Freedom’ inspiration was accused of sexual misconduct by seven women, report says

Tim Ballard resigned from Operation Underground Railroad in June

The Independent UK

US anti-child trafficking activist resigns after sexual harassment allegations

Tim Ballard, whose work was dramatized in Sound of Freedom, has left the Operation Underground Railroad organization

The Guardian - US

‘Sticking it to the liberal media’: how conservative pop culture broke out this summer

The success of Sound of Freedom, Jason Aldean and Oliver Anthony has created a moment for outrage to take center stage

The Guardian - US

Sound of Freedom film producer plots long-shot bid for Mexican presidency

Eduardo Verástegui, who also acts in movie embraced by QAnon followers, files paperwork for 2024 election

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Sound of Freedom review – manipulative take on a harrowing topic

Championed by QAnon conspiracists, this well-intentioned thriller about child sex-trafficking is crass and full of pantomime villains

Salon

QAnon 2.0: The "Sound of Freedom" moment

Right-wing influencers pushed a paranoid, anti-immigrant hit movie — while pretending they'd never heard of QAnon

The Guardian - UK

Sound of Freedom review – anti-child-trafficking thriller that plays to the QAnon crowd

Jim Caviezel stars as the real-life campaigner Tim Ballard in a dull film that has become a US box office sensation

The Guardian - UK

Sound of Freedom director denies film linked to QAnon theory

Alejandro Monteverde says film reception ‘heartbreaking’ as lead actor repeats conspiracy theory’s main points

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Salon

Trump grand jurors face QAnon threats

Experts warn of "chilling effect that personal targeting can have on jurors, on voters, on elected officials"

The Guardian - US

Summer box office 2023: what were the big hits and misses?

It was the season of Barbenheimer but also one that saw some of the costliest flops that the industry has ever seen

The Guardian - UK

‘The film the woke Nazis don’t want you to see!’ How the culture wars made Sound of Freedom a blockbuster

How did a mid-budget thriller about child trafficking become a box office smash? With a lot of help from conspiracy theorists, the US’s religious right and Donald Trump

WEKU

Threats, slurs and menace: Far-right websites target Fulton County grand jurors

Some far-right websites are circulating addresses supposedly of grand jurors involved in the Fulton County indictment of former President Donald Trump. Their calls for violence are causing alarm.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: the latest criminal indictment of Donald Trump

The Republican governor of Georgia refutes the former president’s claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and more. Plus: the slow recovery process after Hawaii’s wildfires

The Guardian - US

From Sound of Freedom to Ron DeSantis: how QAnon’s crazy conspiracy theories went mainstream

The movement itself may have grown quieter – but its ideas have percolated into public discourse, freed from their ridiculous premise

The Guardian - AU

Sound of Freedom director says Jim Caviezel’s QAnon comments ‘hurt my work’

Alejandro Monteverde speaks out about film’s origins, saying seeing it linked to pedophile conspiracy theory has been ‘heartbreaking’

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