the truth and lies issue – Thinking Port

Credit to Author: VICE Staff| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:28:25 +0000

It’s called the “Mandela Effect.”

Is Authoritarian Europe Becoming the New Hope of the Religious Right?

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Credit to Author: Sarah Posner| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:19:30 +0000

Starting with the rise of the Christian right during the Cold War, the movement’s leaders mythologized America as a “city on a hill”—a nation with a divine mission to be a beacon of freedom and democracy to the world. Is that dream now crumbling?

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What Facebook Is Getting Wrong in the Fight Against Fake News

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Credit to Author: David Uberti| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:16:49 +0000

Brooke Binkowski spends her days in search of the misinformation and propaganda that have infected digital media. We caught up with her to talk Facebook and fact-checking.

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These Photos Attempt to Capture Paranormal Activity

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Credit to Author: Elizabeth Moran| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:16:02 +0000

Elizabeth Moran uses photography and paranormal investigators to reckon with her family’s haunted history.

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How the ‘Mandela Effect’ Theory of False Memories Took Over the Internet

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Credit to Author: Roisin Kiberd| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:15:12 +0000

Have you misremembered the spellings of childhood favourites like ‘The Berenstain Bears,’ Froot Loops, and Jif peanut butter? This theory explains why.

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How a Young Girl’s Death in 2000 Gave Birth to an Urban Legend

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Credit to Author: Gavin Haynes| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:14:09 +0000

On July 1, in a tiny English village, eight-year-old Sarah Payne was playing with her brothers and sister in a country lane. Then she wasn’t. The media panic that followed is a case study in how urban legends are born and spread.

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How the Increasing Belief in Extraterrestrials Inspires Our Real World

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Credit to Author: D.W. Pasulka| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:02:52 +0000

According to research by psychologists, belief in nonhuman intelligence is increasing in unprecedented ways, and many contemporary technopreneurs are being inspired in their work by it.

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