The Daily Populous

Conspiracy theory specialist says this misinformation comes from anxiety and a search for answers to the uncertain.

A new study has found that 1-in-5 Americans believe that it is "definitely true" or "probably true" that there is a microchip in the COVID-19 vaccines.

There has never been any evidence to support the idea that microchips are a part of the vaccine rollout. »

Ethiopia has completed filling the reservoir of its huge dam on the Blue Nile river for a second year, a minister said on Monday, a move that has already angered Egypt.

But Ethiopian officials have argued that filling is a natural part of the dam’s construction process and cannot be stopped.

Reservoir-filling began last year, with Ethiopia announcing in July 2020 it had hit its target of 4.9 billion cubic metres. »

China says countries must "protect human rights in light of their national realities" Human Rights Watch said it would take "a cold day in hell" for Beijing to accept criticism of its human rights record.

Human rights experts warn Beijing is mounting a sophisticated campaign to both deflect scrutiny away from China's government, and upend established norms and definitions around human rights.

Human Rights Watch China director Sophie Richardson says, "Beijing is seeking to neutralise UN human rights mechanisms", while also trying to highlight the human rights failures of its rivals, through its diplomats and its media. »

Some 200 ballots in the 2020 presidential election initially were double-counted in Fulton County, where heavily Democratic Atlanta is located.

Claims of the multiple counting of the same ballots in Fulton County were also made on Facebook.

A tweet says that in the 2020 presidential election, "4,255 ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, were scanned multiple times" and "3,390 went to Biden.". »