How mainstream media helps weaponize far-right conspiracy theories
Friday, November 30, 2018 - 10:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
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 wildly from a single tweet posted on Oct. 14.