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Rolling Stone / EJ Dickson / Sep 2, 2020
“‘Over the past few weeks, we have seen an uptick in conspiracy theory posts across our channels,’ says April Daniels Hussar, managing editor of the parenting website Romper, adding that she’d started noticing this increase at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. ‘Mostly, we receive an influx of comments when we feature celebrities and political figures who are believed to be ‘child traffickers.'”
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