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On Dec. 14, 2012, 20 children and 6 adults were killed in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. In this piece for #IETheIssue, @RuthBashinksy reports on the toll conspiracy theories about the massacre continue to take on victims’ families.
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1/ Lenny Pozner’s son Noah was one of the 20 children killed by gunman Adam Lanza, who opened fire using a semi-automatic rifle in Noah’s classroom before turning the gun on himself. Hours before, Lanza had fatally shot his own mother at their home.
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2/ All 20 children were either 6 or 7 years old. Six adult staff members were also killed in the shooting.
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For our 2nd edition of #IETheIssue, we’re examining the modern misinformation landscape. In this piece, we report on how the CIA used disinformation to support the violent “Jakarta Method” in order to influence global politics. THREAD:
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1/ On Oct. 1, 1965, in Jakarta, Indonesia, military officials said they believed their superior officers were organizing a coup, and so they kidnapped some of them.
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2/ Six generals ended up dead. A general named Suharto immediately took control of the country against orders from then-President Sukarno.
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For our 2nd edition of #IETheIssue, we’re examining the modern misinformation landscape. In this piece, @MaraMontalbano reports on the lingering conspiracy that the moon landing was a hoax (it wasn’t). 👨🚀🌕 THREAD:
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1/ Buzz Aldrin punched a guy, back in 2002 when a man confronted the history-making astronaut on the street outside a Los Angeles hotel with a Bible, asked him to swear on the book that he walked on the moon, and called him a liar when he refused.
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2/ This is just one example of how the small but vocal group of “moon hoaxers” have tried for decades to prove that it was all an expensive ruse orchestrated by the United States government.
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For our 2nd edition of #IETheIssue, we’re examining the modern misinformation landscape. In this piece, @salbonoie reports on how leaders in New York’s Long Island are putting ideology aside to fight climate change. THREAD:
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1/ Just off mainland New York State and containing the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, Long Island’s geographical location is prime real estate. Its beaches are some of the most desirable in the country, and it boasts a vibrant wine industry.
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2/ It’s also dramatically experiencing the impacts of climate change. And as the climate changes, the spaces inhabited by humans are changing, too.
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For our 2nd edition of #IETheIssue, we’re examining the modern misinformation landscape. In this piece, @allie_nicole93 reports on why people turn to conspiracy theories during times of uncertainty. THREAD:
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1/ Along with the rise of COVID-19 came a group of related, false conspiracy theories that range from the belief that 5G cell towers are spreading the virus to the myth that Bill Gates is working on a mind control device to insert into vaccines.
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2/ The emergence of these inaccurate beliefs is giving new insight into how and why people turn to conspiracy theories as a way to cope during times of uncertainty, according to a new study conducted by political psychologist @PoliPsyProf.
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For our 2nd edition of #IETheIssue, we’re examining the modern misinformation landscape. In this piece, @mayanyani reports on the history of presidential illnesses, and how they may have been downplayed. THREAD:
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1/ When President Donald Trump was diagnosed and hospitalized with COVID-19 earlier this month, his condition brought new attention to presidential health and the secrecy that surrounds it.
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2/ Trump recovered and returned to the campaign trail within a week. The president’s rush to get back to business, as Election Day swiftly approaches, isn’t a new attitude when it comes to presidents, according to historians.
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THREAD: July is #MinorityMentalHealthAwareness Month. For the first edition of #IETheIssue, @OfficerStephNY facilitated a conversation between @DrSampsonDavis and Rondell Johnson, a master social worker @CHNNYC, about the stress of the moment we are in.
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1/ He is a board-certified emergency room doctor, a New York Times best-selling author, and helped create @threedoctors, which has given back his New Jersey community for more than 20 years –and @DrSampsonDavis is still apprehensive of the police.
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2/ “I was pulled over by a police officer last week, and literally it was like a detour to get off the exit because of construction being done on the highway. So I took a detour and pulled off and the police officer pulled me over and he said…”
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In the first installment of #IETheIssue, we're looking at the recent history of police violence against Black people in America and at the protest movement that has emerged since George Floyd's killing. Here's why we think that's important. ietv.co/2B9jH5d 
Today is the 6th anniversary of Eric Garner's death. His mother @RealGwenCarr spoke to @Mayanyani about his legacy, and George Floyd's devastatingly similar death. "I had this feeling like, ‘no, this is not happening again.'" #IETheIssue ietv.co/3jbgG5n
.@johannacli, @vixmarin and @zeeaabdo asked a dozen Black Americans to give their oral history of this moment, with a both simple, but nuanced question: What is it like to be Black in America, and what do you hope it will mean going forward? #IETheIssue ietv.co/3hdauZ4
