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2024-05-23 23:58:37 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: FF3BBA927D2F0D5CC99E5469AB7AD9F72BA0259C269614FA4F44988B428B82AA
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Two blatant pieces of disinformation. The suggestion that the COVID pandemic was not real, but rather a planned strategy to oppress people, is a conspiracy theory that has been repeatedly debunked. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7342934/ https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2020/06/29/most-americans-have-heard-of-the-conspiracy-theory-that-the-covid-19-outbreak-was-planned-and-about-one-third-of-those-aware-of-it-say-it-might-be-true/ https://www.bbc.com/news/55017002 https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2701H3/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eight-persistent-covid-19-myths-and-why-people-believe-them/ Suggesting that elections are rigged is also false. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2053168020959859 https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/conspiracy-theorists-and-extremists-using-various-tactics-manipulate-us-election https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-02106-x https://apnews.com/article/voting-machines-election-conspiracies-republicans-trump-f867ef5ed8d66f375066f8cbdb25cdf4 https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/politics/fact-check-election-voter-fraud-conspiracies/index.html
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