Earlier this week it was revealed that Facebook for iOS had a bug in which for some reason, activated the user’s camera behind the scenes without their knowledge. Given the various conspiracy theories about Facebook spying on users and...
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Trump's whistleblower has been branded a member of the so-called "deep state" by conservative media. It's a type of attack that has become common in the Trump era.
The husband-and-wife Trump defense team of Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing appeared on Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight to push an outlandish conspiracy theory about Ukraine, baselessly alleging that left-wing billionaire George Soros...
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The Manchurian Candidate Theory Will Never Die
Authored by David Harsanyi via NationalReview.com,
...but now it’s much more than a kooky conspiracy shouted from the margins. It’s headline news.
One of the most durable conspiracy...
A popular Chase Young conspiracy theory has been debunked by Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith.
Smith spoke to the media Wednesday after Young’s two-game suspension was handed down. At one point, he brought up a theory that had been...
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Zoomers on TikTok, plant hobbyist meme accounts, and Fox News guests have little in common. But they all declare the same rallying cry: Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
Whether a macro image or a short video, the meme more or less follows...
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Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent debunked a right-wing conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine — not Russia — who intervened in the 2016 election. Kent was interviewed by former federal prosecutor Daniel Goldman, who is...
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(Scott Johnson) I had intended to finish this particular series on Ilhan Omar’s 2009 marriage to her brother with a summary of the case supporting it. This is more of a closing comment for the series than a recapitulation of the evidence,...
As we discussed yesterday, there’s a suspicious rumor going around the British tabloids that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will spend Christmas in LA with Doria Ragland, Meghan’s mom. I was doubtful of the story, and I even had a conspiracy...
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There has been a longstanding conspiracy theory that suggests that Facebook is somehow listening and spying on its users through the microphone and/or camera of the smartphone that it is installed on. After all, how would one otherwise explain how...
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The United Fruit Company is the bogeyman of Latin America, the very apotheosis of neo-colonialism. And to be sure in the UFC history there is wrongdoing and plenty of fodder for conspiracy theories but the UFC also brought bananas (as export crop),...
Sean Hannity spent a few moments of his show with his Trump consultant hat on, giving Republican Senators orders as to which conspiracy theories they should use to distract everyone, how to make it look like Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election,...
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What Happened, Hillary’s compendium of excuses and conspiracy theories about losing the election, opened with 100,000 in hardcover sales. Two years later, her latest book racked up a 30,000 debut.And it got worse from there.The Book of Gutsy...
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President Donald Trump tweeted out another conspiracy theory about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) Monday as two more transcripts were released from those testifying in the House Intelligence Committee as it prepares for impeachment. “Just like Schiff...
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NBC News correspondent Morgan Radford interviewed a number of adherents to the child sex trafficking conspiracy theory QAnon, including a number of GOP congressional candidates who support the outlandish and quasi-religious ideology
During a...
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Donald Trump believes a conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 presidential election, and that is why Trump has called Ukraine a “corrupt Country” full of “terrible people” that “tried to...
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The theory that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered is widespread and pervasive. Its popularity illustrates our growing distrust in public institutions.
House impeachment investigators on Friday released the deposition transcript of Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council official whose testimony has been among the most damaging so far to President Donald Trump.Hill on Oct. 14 testified...
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Claude Sinké attempted to set a French mosque on fire, as an "act of revenge" for the Notre Dame fire. He shot two Muslim men who confronted him.