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As soon as Trump supporters violently stormed the US Capitol building, their online allies began promoting a conspiracy theory that the whole riot was a false flag operation. And when some Australian politicians started to promote this, Prime Minister Scott Morrison failed to condemn it, taking the same approach to misinformation from his party room members as he has done many times before.