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Consumed by conspiracy: How so many fall down the rabbit hole
Daniele Hamamdjian London News Bureau Correspondent, CTV National News
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LONDON, ENGLAND Real conspiracies do exist. It’s the first thing the 12-page “Conspiracy Theory Handbook” tells you: “Volkswagen conspired to cheat emissions tests for their diesel engines, the U.S. National Security Agency secretly spied on civilian internet users and the tobacco industry deceived the public about the harmful health effects of smoking,” it says. There was a reason conspiracies like those came to light, the handbook explains. It was all thanks to “internal industry documents, government investigations, or whistleblowers”.
TORONTO Over the course of Donald Trump s presidency, QAnon conspiracy theorists – those who believe in a “deep state” plot against Trump, along with a shadowy cabal of pedophiles and child traffickers embedded in the upper echelons of U.S. power – have “waited and watched” for a reckoning in the U.S. government. Biden’s inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, was meant to be the stage of what was colloquially termed as “the storm,” or “great awakening,” where “true patriots” of the country would swoop down and arrest Democrats at the U.S. Capitol, Trump would remain in power and a cataclysmic shift in politics and the social agenda would occur.
Brenna Owen
Smartphone apps are shown, in Miami, on Oct. 29, 2019. Kids in Canada need greater access to up-to-date media literacy education to help them navigate what s real and what s fake or misleading online, experts say.
Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Wilfredo Lee December 11, 2020 - 9:00 PM Kids in Canada need greater access to up-to-date media literacy education to help them navigate what s real and what s fake or misleading online, experts say. The rise of social media has led to the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation, which is spread intentionally, said Dr. Ghayda Hassan, a clinical psychologist and the director of the Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence.
Kids need media literacy education to match the rise of social networks: experts
by Brenna Owen, The Canadian Press
Posted Dec 11, 2020 4:00 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 11, 2020 at 4:14 am EDT
Kids in Canada need greater access to up-to-date media literacy education to help them navigate what’s real and what’s fake or misleading online, experts say.
The rise of social media has led to the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation, which is spread intentionally,
said Dr. Ghayda Hassan, a clinical psychologist and the director of the Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence.
“Because of the speed of access to information, cognitively, people do not have time to process and to validate the kind of information they receive, so there are a lot of biases that interfere,” said Hassan, who is also a UNESCO co-chair for the prevention of radicalization.