Conspiracy theories
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The Antisemitic Khazarian Conspiracy and Ukraine
By Agostino Pilia This briefing discusses the use of the antisemitic “Khazaria conspiracy” myth in relation to the recent events in the Russian-Ukrainian war in social media, a topic that OHPI has briefly touched upon over the past year (1,2,3). Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, antisemitic tropes…
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Banning QAnon
The Online Hate Prevention Institute welcomes Facebook’s move to ban QAnon. The QAnon movement, which started on 4chan and 8chan (see our Halle report for more on them), has been rapidly absorbing and spreading conspiracy theories including those based on the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and more recently those based on conspiracy…
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Conspiracy Theories
We’ve been seeing an increase in the spread of fake news and conspiracy theories. Many of these conspiracy theories spread hate against particular groups in society. They then portray any effort to prevent this spread of hate not as an effort to protect groups and individuals whose human dignity is being attacked, but rather as…