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A recent survey conducted by the leftist Public Religion Research Institute associated the COVID-19 laboratory leak hypothesis with QAnon conspiracy theories.
The leftist Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), a nonprofit research organization, conducted a survey asking participants their opinions on religion, COVID-19 and vaccinations. Nearly 40 percent of Americans who participated in the survey, conducted in March 2021, responded that COVID-19 was “developed intentionally by scientists in a lab.”
PRRI polled 5,149 adults and asked whether “The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was developed intentionally in a lab.” Fifteen percent responded that they “[c]ompletely agree” and another 24 percent said they “[m]ostly agree.” While “[t]his question wasn’t the focus of the survey[,] … it was one of a number of questions intended to gauge respondents’ support of QAnon,” reported NiemanLab. The laboratory theory question appear
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Lansing A Michigan lawmaker who s been at the center of efforts to question the 2020 election introduced a bill Tuesday that would require fact checkers to register with the state.
Rep. Matt Maddock, R-Milford, wrote the legislation, which was co-sponsored by eight other Republican House members, about five months after Maddock floated the idea of licensing fact checkers on Twitter.
The Fact Checker Registration Act defines a fact checker as someone who publishes in print or online in Michigan, is paid by a fact-checking organization and is a member of the International Fact Check Network.
The network is a reference to the Poynter Institute s International Fact-Checking Network, a unit launched by the journalism group in 2015 to train and develop best practices in fact checking, Maddock said.