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Is the 'New Congresswoman from Michigan' Describing 'What the Enemies of America' Plan to Do? - Truth or Fiction? Do High Percentages of Refugees Receive Food Stamps, 'Medicard,' and Cash Welfare? - Truth or Fiction? WACO. Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out.

Senate reports find millions of social media posts by Russians aimed at helping Trump, GOP. WASHINGTON – The Senate released Monday a pair of reports that found Russia engaged in an all-out social media campaign on Donald Trump's behalf during the 2016 election and continued to support him after he took office.

Senate reports find millions of social media posts by Russians aimed at helping Trump, GOP

One report, compiled by Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and a social media analysis firm called Graphika, looked at millions of posts on every popular social media platform from Facebook to Pinterest that were provided to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. The second report – written by New Knowledge, a cybersecurity firm specializing in protection from "social media disinformation attacks" – found that in addition to a "sweeping and sustained social influence operation," the Russians also tried to hack online voting systems and stole Clinton campaign emails, "which led to a controlled leak via Wikileaks.

" Revealed: FBI kept files on peaceful climate change protesters. Meet the man who makes fake news for millions of conservative Trump supporters. The only light in the house came from the glow of three computer monitors, and Christopher Blair, 46, sat down at a keyboard and started to type.

Meet the man who makes fake news for millions of conservative Trump supporters

His wife had left for work and his children were on their way to school, but waiting online was his other community, an unreality where nothing was exactly as it seemed. He logged onto his website and began to invent his first news story of the day. "BREAKING," he wrote, pecking out each letter with his index fingers as he considered the possibilities. Maybe he would announce Hillary Clinton had died during a secret overseas mission to smuggle more refugees into America. Maybe he would award President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize for his courage in denying climate change. US 'war on terror' has killed over half a million people: study.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan have been killed due to the so-called "war on terror" launched by the United States in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attack, according to a new study.

US 'war on terror' has killed over half a million people: study

The report, which was published on Saturday by the Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, put the death toll between 480,000 and 507,000. The toll includes civilians, armed fighters, local police and security forces, as well as US and allied troops. The report states that between 182,272 and 204,575 civilians have been killed in Iraq; 38,480 in Afghanistan; and 23,372 in Pakistan. Nearly 7,000 US troops were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period.

How the false, fringe ‘QAnon’ conspiracy theory aims to protect Trump. 19 outlandish conspiracy theories Donald Trump has floated on the campaign trail and in the White House. Alt-Right-Related Terms, Defined: Cuck, Masculinist, Cosmopolitan, Ghost Skin. White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march during the United the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12.

Alt-Right-Related Terms, Defined: Cuck, Masculinist, Cosmopolitan, Ghost Skin

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Inside Atomwaffen As It Celebrates a Member for Allegedly. Late last month, ProPublica reported that the California man accused of killing a gay and Jewish University of Pennsylvania student was an avowed neo-Nazi and a member of Atomwaffen Division, one of the country’s most notorious extremist groups.

Inside Atomwaffen As It Celebrates a Member for Allegedly

The news about the murder suspect, Samuel Woodward, spread quickly throughout the U.S., and abroad. Qanon click 2x. Joseph McCarthy. Not to be confused with the other Senator McCarthy, Eugene McCarthy.

Joseph McCarthy

McCarthy successfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1946, defeating Robert M. La Follette Jr. UN human rights chief: Trump's attacks on press 'close to incitement of violence' A mentor in shamelessness: the man who taught Trump the power of publicity. Donald Trump is a man who likes to think he has few equals.

A mentor in shamelessness: the man who taught Trump the power of publicity

Roy Cohn. Roy Marcus Cohn (/koʊn/; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American attorney.

Roy Cohn

During Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations into Communist activity in the United States during the Second Red Scare, Cohn served as McCarthy's chief counsel and gained special prominence during the Army–McCarthy hearings. Cohn was also known for being a U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor at the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and later for representing Donald Trump during his early business career. He was disbarred by the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court for unethical conduct in 1986.[2] He died less than two months later. Early life[edit] After attending Horace Mann School[6] and the Fieldston School,[7][8] and completing studies at Columbia College in 1946, Cohn graduated from Columbia Law School at the age of 20.

Counterespionage[edit] Rosenberg trial[edit] Trump meets with promoter of 'QAnon' conspiracy theory in Oval Office. Car with a Message Supporting 'Public Executions' of Trump Critics. West Wing aides perfect a Trump survival skill: Ignoring the tweets. President Donald Trump minimized the pain and suffering of more than 3 million American citizens in Puerto Rico in a pair of tweets Thursday morning – and White House aides acted like it wasn’t their problem.

West Wing aides perfect a Trump survival skill: Ignoring the tweets

Trump’s broadside, in which he peddled a false conspiracy theory that “Democrats” inflated the official death toll from Hurricane Maria to smear his image, was met largely with silence from his White House advisers. Most officials and Trump allies refused to comment on the record, and there was little effort to mount a major defense of the statement. Story Continued Below Late Thursday, after ignoring Trump’s comments for more than 10 hours, the White House issued a statement. Ideologically motivated far-right extremists have killed close to 500 people since 1990 – and 10 percent were targeted based on religion. Jacob Wohl’s Botched Conspiracy Against Robert Mueller. How Trump-Fed Conspiracy Theories About Migrant Caravan Intersect With Deadly Hatred.