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Aphex Twin has clarified his stance on vaccines after anti-vax sentiments and other conspiracy theories appeared in the ID3 tag of a song posted to SoundCloud.A Reddit user found an ID3 tag on a song posted by the Cornish producer AKA Richard D James in 2014, reading “vaccines are poisonous, mercury, aluminum can+ autism, cancer” and also referencing 9/11, Hamas and chemtrails.James commented on SoundCloud to explain that the message was fake after receiving messages about the text.“I put random things in id3 tags…

"We cannot ascribe everything to the vaccine, but, by the same token, we cannot ascribe nothing," the Twitter owner wrote almost immediately after the news broke Twitter owner Elon Musk seized on reports that Lebron James Jr. suffered cardiac arrest during a basketball practice to spread conspiracy theories about the covid-19 vaccine.  “We cannot ascribe everything to the vaccine, but, by the same token, we cannot ascribe nothing,” Musk wrote in response to a tweet about the…

"If I believed the stuff that's written about me in the papers and reported about me on the mainstream news sites, I ... would think I was a very despicable person," he said on Fox News Robert F. Kennedy Jr., notorious purveyor of anti-vax conspiracy theories who claims he has “never been anti-vax,” believes that the media has “slammed” him more than Donald Trump. “It’s interesting to me because I’ve been really slammed in a way that I think is unprecedented, even more than …

Thursday Morning, fresh off controversy after claiming that Covid-19  was “ethnically targeted” towards certain races, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. testified before The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.  Earlier this week, more than 100 Democrats filed a letter to the Judiciary Committee calling for Kennedy to be excluded from the hearing. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy himself said he disagreed “with everything said,” but to exclude him would undermine the topic…

Rage against Covid-19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates accelerated Ron DeSantis’ rise to the top of the Republican Party. It was supposed to be a key part of the governor’s plan to outflank Donald Trump in the 2024 primary. But here’s the problem: Republican voters, at this point, largely just don’t care — at least not when they’re picking a candidate. Six different Republican operatives, campaign officials, and pollsters described or shared with Rolling Stone internal data and surveys they’d conducted or…

via Warner Bros. Opinions are indeed like assholes in that everyone has them, but Shazam! Fury of the Gods star Zachary Levi endorsing antivax opinions on social media mere weeks before his blockbuster superhero sequel comes to theaters could be set to generate some bad publicity that the DCU doesn’t need right about now. If it isn’t the last vestiges of the SnyderVerse subset tearing down the mere thought of James Gunn continuing the franchise without any overt connections to Zack Snyder’s work, then it’s…

For many people, family gatherings at the holidays mean suffering through painful conversations with antivax relatives. While there may be little sense in trying to change anyone’s mind, here are some common antivax talking points about the covid-19 vaccines to be aware of.Read more... For many people, family gatherings at the holidays mean suffering through painful conversations with antivax relatives. While there may be little sense in trying to change anyone’s mind, here are some common antivax talking points about…

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one of the world’s leading vaccine conspiracists, though he’s finding he has less and less platforms to spread his organization’s disinformation.Photo: STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP (Getty Images)One of the most prolific and notorious anti-vaxxer online communities no longer has a home on either Facebook or Instagram as Meta reportedly took down both of their accounts for spreading misinformation, the company confirmed.The group called Children’s Health Defense, a community of vaccine conspiracists, told…

Today, let’s talk about a settled question that Meta has decided to re-open: what should the company do about misinformation related to COVID-19? Since the earliest days of the pandemic, Meta has sought to remove false claims about the disease from Facebook and Instagram. And for just as long, the company has faced criticism that it hasn’t done a very good job. A year ago this month, asked about the role “platforms like Facebook” played in spreading misinformation about the disease, President Biden said “they’re…