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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

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African Cults	DR Congo Police Crackdown on Sect Killed 55 in 'Bloodbath': Human Rights Watch	0
Scientology	Clearwater council struggles to address Scientology’s impact on downtown	0
Conspiracy theories	The thin line between conspiracy theories and cult worship is dissolving	0
Waco Davidians	The ‘Waco’ Guide to Not Falling Prey to a Cult Leader	0

Monday, May 18, 2020

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ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups	Prosecution to charge sect leader Berland over tax evasion	0
Miscellaneous	The Tibetan lama who was really a plumber from Devon A 1956 bestseller about life in a Himalayan monastery turned out to be made up by a man who’d never been there. But that didn’t stop the Dalai Lama endorsing it	0
Heaven's Gate	'It’s The Cult of Cults!': Parents Lose Their Daughter To Infamous Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide	0
Doomsday groups	‘Cult mom’ Lori Vallow’s ex-husband sued her years ago for allegedly hiding their daughter: report	0
African Cults	Ayade’s aide, two others killed in Calabar’s cult war	0

Sunday, May 17, 2020

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North Korea	Free North Korea Radio fights to free ‘psychological slaves’ of Kim Jong Un	0
Society of Saint. Pius X	KBI is investigating priests in Kansas town that draws parishioners from across U.S.	0
Conspiracy theories	The Politics Of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories	0
Doomsday groups	Author and activist Flora Jessop weighs in on Idaho missing children's case	0
Conspiracy theories	The Original Plandemic: Unmasking The Eerily Familiar Conspiracy Theories Behind The Russian Flu Of 1889	0

Saturday, May 16, 2020

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Conspiracy theories	Feds warn of attacks related to bogus COVID-19 conspiracy theory DHS document says threats against telecom "will probably increase."	0
Conspiracy theories	Inside the Worrying World of Coronavirus Truther Facebook Groups Conspiracy theorists claim – without evidence – that coronavirus death figures have been inflated, the lockdown is unlawful and Bill Gates is somehow responsible for it all.	0
Mormons	The Mormon Church's secretive $100 billion fund slashed its Exxon, Marriott, and Wells Fargo stakes last quarter	0
Scientology	MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Tom Cruise space movie will boost his reputation among Scientologists ‘who believe he will get to meet aliens’	0
Synanon	Before he was a rock star, ‘Hollywood Park’ author spent his youth in a cult and at the racetrack	0
Colonia Dignidad, founder Paul Schäfer	A Chilean Nazi Cult Inspires One of the Darkest Animated Movies Ever	0
Doomsday groups	‘Cult Mom’ Lori Vallow’s mother says ‘missing kids could be in a bunker somewhere’	0

Friday, May 15, 2020

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Fundamentalists	Religious Far Right Mounts Anti-Abortion Attack on COVID-19 Vaccine	0
Conspiracy theories	Twitter to label misinformation about coronavirus amid flood of false claims and conspiracy theories	0
Conspiracy theories	A disgraced scientist and a viral video: how a Covid conspiracy theory started	0
Conspiracy theories	The Prophecies of Q American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.	0
Conspiracy theories	How Britain Fell for the 5G Conspiracy Theory Over 50 masts have been burned or vandalised, while more than 120 telecom engineers have been threatened or harassed. Why? It all started with a man up a lamppost.	0
Conspiracy theories	A Quarter of the Most Popular Covid-19 YouTube Videos Are Misleading: Study A new study found that YouTube videos viewed more than 60 million times contained misleading information about coronavirus, raising questions about social media companies' role i	0
Conspiracy theories	Trapped in a Hoax: Survivors of Conspiracy Theories	0
Conspiracy theories	I was a conspiracy theorist, too I know why people turn to conspiracy theories in uncertain times. I did the same when my husband had a brain tumor.	0
Scientology	Scientology’s center specializing in auditing your infant is back open in Florida!	0
Scientology	Scientology pamphlets in Woolworths: Australian Medical Association hits out	0

Thursday, May 14, 2020

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Conspiracy theories	Australian public's confidence in 5G 'shaken' by misinformation campaign Federal parliamentary committee examining rollout says fears over network are being exploited, particularly on social media	0
William Branham	Cases of Abuse and Cults in Canada – William Branham	0
Anti-Vaccination Movement -- Anti-Vaxers	A Civil War Has Erupted in the Anti-Vaxx Movement and It’s Just as Ridiculous as You’d Expect NO CURE FOR THIS The ultimate of insults has been thrown down: that an anti-vaccine activist actually supports vaccines.	0
Miscellaneous	Officials: Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans Spike In Wake Of Coronavirus Pandemic	0
ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups	Police injured in clashes with ultra-Orthodox Jews in Mea She'arim	0
ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups	Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews ignore lockdown for religious festival	0
Falun Gong -- Li Hongzhi	Falun Gong: The Cult Behind "The Epoch Times" and the Weirdest Ads on Youtube	0
NXIVM -- Keith Raniere	NXIVM Founder sentencing adjourned indefinitely due to pandemic	0
Scientology	Church of Scientology targets Woolworths customers in staggering recruitment drive	0
Conspiracy theories	UFO Conspiracy Theorists Offer 'Ascension' From Our Hell World for $333 David Wilcock and Corey Goode are peddling salvation, protection from the "illuminati deep state," and bogus COVID-19 explanations to millions on YouTube.	0
White Supremacists	White Supremacists Built a Website to Doxx Interracial Couples — and It's Going to Be Hard to Take Down Racists have published a hate-filled database targeting white women dating black and brown men as “traitors” — and some are being harassed online.	0

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

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Conspiracy theories	Conspiracy theorists, far-right extremists around the world seize on the pandemic	0
Anti-Vaccination Movement -- Anti-Vaxers	Vaccine opponents are gaining in Facebook ‘battle for hearts and minds,’ new map shows	0
Conspiracy theories	On TikTok, COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Flourish Amid Viral Dances	0
Conspiracy theories	Coronavirus conspiracy theories about mind control chips, Bill Gates and face masks fuel lockdown protests in Germany	0
Polygamy Groups	Polygamy now officially decriminalized in Utah	0
Genesis II Church	On the Prowl for Bogus Claims About Coronavirus Treatments, the FDA Targets Miracle Mineral Solution	0
Genesis II Church	Church Fined For Selling Bleach As Virus Cure	0
Scientology	L Ron Hubbard was my script doctor: Battlefield Earth's screenwriter on his Scientology nightmare	0
Scientology	Some in Pinellas got Scientology pamphlets with their school lunches	0
Miscellaneous	TIKTOK: WHAT ARE THE STEP CHICKENS? STRANGE ONLINE CULT GOES VIRAL	0

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

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Conspiracy theories	Catholic Wingnuts Say COVID Precautions Are the Pope’s ‘Pretext’ to Kill the Church	0
Conspiracy theories	The coronavirus conspiracy news cycle	0
Anti-Semites	Anti-Semitism in the US hits four-decade high: report	0
ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups	Ignoring ban, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox crowd Lag B’Omer fires in Jerusalem	0
Scientology	Scientology’s $20 million hole in the ground: The secret vault to nowhere	0

Monday, May 11, 2020

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Islamic Fundamentalists	Tablighi Jamaat: The group blamed for new Covid-19 outbreak in India	0
Conspiracy theories	Anthony Fauci Is Facing Online Attacks And COVID-19 Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories	0
Radicalization	Germany concerned coronavirus protests may lead to radicalisation	0
ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups	Two ultra-Orthodox bastions account for 37% of Israel’s virus deaths	0
Doomsday groups	Missing Idaho kids’ uncle died of blood clot in Arizona	0
Clergy Abuse	Child sex abuse rife in Pakistan's religious schools	0
Sherry Shriner	Man's Online Feud With Reptile-Fearing Cult Ends In Bizarre Murder	0

Sunday, May 10, 2020

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Miscellaneous	Trash Pseudoscience Health BS That Celebs Have Sprung On Us	0
Conspiracy theories	Social media companies battling COVID-19 conspiracy-theory posts	0
Clergy Abuse	Clergy confidentiality at issue in Amish bishop's case	0
Miscellaneous	What Is Stockholm Syndrome? The term Stockholm Syndrome was coined at the end of a six-day bank siege. What is it and why is it cited time and again in hostage situations?	0
Doomsday groups	'Cult mom' Lori Vallow's brother died of natural causes after fatally shooting her estranged husband: autopsy	0
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker	Jim Bakker’s Prepper Village Is Having the Worst Apocalypse Ever	0
Scientology	Leah Remini's Criticism of Tom Cruise Who She Thinks Was Fully Brainwashed by Scientology	0
Anti-Vaccination Movement -- Anti-Vaxers	Anti-Vaccination Activists Join Stay-At-Home Order Protesters	0

Saturday, May 9, 2020

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Conspiracy theories	Coronavirus: Why do people believe conspiracy theories - and can they ever be convinced not to?	0
Polygamy Groups	The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: 5 Fast Facts	0
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker	Televangelist Jim Bakker is recovering from a stroke, his wife says	0
Scientology	Dianetics at 70: Scientology’s bible, endorsing child molestation since May 9, 1950	0

Friday, May 8, 2020

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Conspiracy theories	How covid-19 conspiracy theorists are exploiting YouTube culture	0
Conspiracy theories	5G conspiracy theories fuel attacks on telecoms workers	0
Conspiracy theories	Coronavirus conspiracy theory posts keep spawning, and social media companies can’t take them down fast enough	0
Miscellaneous	Poll: Most in US back curbing in-person worship amid virus	0
Polygamy Groups	Woman who helped take down polygamist Warren Jeffs tells how she had to marry an 85-year-old man when she was 19 and share him with 63 other women - as the Utah town home to the cult rebuilds	0
Polygamy Groups	Where Is Rebecca Musser Now?	0
Conspiracy theories	A Broadband Engineer Was Spat on by a 5G Conspiracy Theorist. Then He Got Coronavirus. The attacks on network workers are getting more frequent, brazen, and violent.	0
Conspiracy theories	'Plandemic' Is Dangerous, Viral Nonsense A pseudo-documentary full of outrageous, verifiably false claims is still going viral, despite being repeatedly removed from YouTube and Facebook.	0
Conspiracy theories	Police investigating after fourth Quebec cellphone tower hit by suspected arson	0
Conspiracy theories	'What are we doing this for?': Doctors are fed up with conspiracies ravaging ERs "I left work and I felt so deflated," one doctor said about an effort to counter misinformation he saw on Facebook. "I let it get to me."	0
Hate crimes	Global report: virus has unleashed a 'tsunami of hate' across world, says UN chief	0
Doomsday groups	Documents sent by Chad Daybell reveal so-called 'past lives' of Lori Vallow	0
Cult TV	‘Deadly Cults’ to feature 2017 Coolbaugh Twp. murder	0
Conspiracy theories	Facebook and other companies remove viral 'Plandemic' conspiracy video	0

Thursday, May 7, 2020

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Clergy Abuse	Cardinal Pell 'knew of' clergy abuse, says Australian royal commission	0
Doomsday groups	Lori Vallow's mother and sister break their silence to say 'cult mom' would never hurt her children, but say 'that's a great question' when asked why she hasn't said where the missing kids are	0
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker	Televangelist Jim Bakker Fights to Keep Selling Sham COVID-19 ‘Cure From God’	0
Cult Movie	San Antonio-Based Filmmaker Gets National Distribution for His Religious Cult Thriller	0
Miscellaneous	I grew up in a Catholic cult. I had to tell my story before I could accept that.	0

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

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Anti Vaccine Groups and Vaccine Denialism	Anti-vaccination leaders seize on coronavirus to push resistance to inoculation	0
Evangelicals	He’s part of a famous anti-LGBTQ evangelical family. He just came out as a drag queen.	0
Clergy Abuse	George Pell sections of child abuse royal commission report to be published on Thursday	0