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'Close to being cut from the family': US family worried mother is becoming a conspiracy theorist


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Claire Ryan grew up in a Catholic family in Montreal where she was the oldest of 10 children.
In a country where disinformation was spreading like a disease, Celina Knippling resolved to administer facts to her mother like medicine. She and her four siblings could do nothing about the lies that had spread outward from Washington since Election Day, or the violence it had provoked. But maybe they could do something to stop dangerous political fantasies and extremism from metastasising within their family. Maybe they could do something about Claire.
And so on one Saturday in February, Celina meticulously assembled a spreadsheet of every court case filed by former US president Trump and his allies to contest the 2020 election. From her home outside Baltimore, she coded by date, state, case number and outcome. She analysed how many lawsuits had been won, lost or dismissed and on what grounds. She broke down whether the presiding judges h ....

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Family members worry their mom is becoming a conspiracy theorist. She thinks they're living in a fantasy world.


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Family members worry their mom is becoming a conspiracy theorist. She thinks they re living in a fantasy world.
Jose A. Del Real, The Washington Post
March 12, 2021
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How right-wing disinformation and conspiracy theories tore one family apart

How right-wing disinformation and conspiracy theories tore one family apart
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