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Francis Boyle, Ali Khamenei: Meet the superspreaders behind top COVID-19 conspiracy theories Legitimate questions about the virus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theories. In the absence of knowledge, guesswork and propaganda flourished Associated Press | February 15, 2021 | Updated 12:58 IST Anonymous social media users posed as high-level intelligence officials. And from China to Iran to Russia to the United States, governments amplified claims for their own motives As the coronavi...

As the coronavirus spread across the globe, so too did speculation about its origins. Perhaps the virus escaped from a lab. Maybe it was engineered as a bioweapon.

As the coronavirus spread across the globe, so too did speculation about its origins. Perhaps the virus escaped from a lab. Maybe it was engineered as a bioweapon. Legitimate questions about the virus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theories. In the absence of knowledge, guesswork and propaganda flourished. University professors with no evidence or training in virology were touted as experts. Anonymous social media users posed as high-level intelligence officials. And from China to Ir...

Investigation identifies people and groups behind some of the most viral misinformation about coronavirus origins.

Read more about Boyle to Khamenei: The superspreaders behind top Covid conspiracy theories on Business Standard. Mr. Boyle says the coronavirus is a genetically engineered bio-weapon that escaped from a high-level lab in Wuhan, China

As the coronavirus spread across the globe, so too did speculation about its origins....

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DollarCollapse.com by John Rubino ◆ We’re deluged with numbers these days, many of them huge, ominous departures from historical norms. But one matters more than the others. To understand why, let’s start with some history. In the 1960s the US entered the expensive and divisive Vietnam War, while simultaneously creating major entitlement programs including (also very expensive) Medicare. In the 1970s, commodity prices, led by oil, started to rise due in part to the billions of new dollar...

We sometimes wonder what they are smoking down on Wall Street, but today the question might better apply to the homegamers who are apparently hitting their bongs down in mom’s basement. We are referring to Wednesday’s rip-snorting 47% rise in the stock of Tilray – the lead rabbit in the Reddit run on pot stocks. As it happened, the day that GameStop peaked on January 27th, the once left for dead Tilray was valued at $2.9 billion. Thereafter it went vertical, weighing-in at $10.6 billion up...