The speculation the sight sparked on Thursday night could hardly leave anyone indifferent, especially after the weather service butted in, showing its inability to bust conspiracy theory-inspired claims.
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Federal prosecutors debunked a conspiracy theory pushed by the far-right in a new legal brief filed on Thursday. Longtine Donald Trump political advisor Roger Stone had argued federal investigators relied upon a report from the cyber research firm...
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President Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he’s wrong about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). This article originally appeared on HuffPost.Read more...
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The panel on Monday’s edition of The Situation Room obsessed over a segment of President Trump’s interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, where President Trump “becomes really angry at his Chief of Staff, Mick...
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Former RedState editor-in-chief Erick Erickson is condemning his former blog for giving air to conspiracy theories about the murder of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.
“I banned birthers from RedState,” Erickson...
The Mueller Report unequivocally confirmed that the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) server was hacked by the Russians. This finding would debunk the “conspiracy” theory that the late Seth Rich, the DNC staffer who was...
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Yesterday, I covered a tweet sent out by The Washington Post’s Beirut Bureau Chief in which she seemingly blamed President Trump for Iran’s...
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Although the thought of a president refusing to leave after losing an election is typically a conspiracy theory spouted by fever-swamp-dwelling partisans, conservative columnist Matt Lewis believes it’s a scenario that warrants consideration...
To be honest with you all, I hadn’t put much thought into venturing out to try one of those Impossible Burger at a fast-food joint, even though meat substitutes are always fun to sample. Some of them are very good and others make you wonder if...
Monday evening's Tucker Carlson's White Power Hour featured retired Colonel Douglas MacGregor, who was brought on to promote the conspiracy theory that so often permeates white supremacy and neo-Nazi sites.
"The Democratic Party has decided [Latinos...
Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin joins a group tackling conspiracy theories about the moon landing — and the space program in general — in a new Science Channel series.
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One MSNBC host took his foot off the gas when a conservative commentator peddled a right-wing conspiracy theory Sunday. MSNBC host Kendis Gibson is normally quick to fact-check inaccurate statements, but in the final moments of his Sunday show,...
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In the age of President Donald Trump, right-wing conspiracy theories have more carrying power on the internet than ever before. But one of the largest purveyors did not start out that way. On Friday, The Daily Beast profiled Natural News, which is...
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The incident certainly does not mark the first time in which a senior Labour politician has been accused of indulging in anti-Semitic rhetoric and conspiracy theory. While the Peterborough by-election victory has expressed her apologies for past...
Alex Baia and Thatcher Jensen write a satirical list of too-real conspiracy theories.
Believers in conspiracy theories are usually written off immediately as weirdos and idiots, but as a new survey by YouGov for Statista reveals, in some cases, these are actually widely-held beliefs and far from the bizarre, fringe opinion that you...
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Every movement has a mission statement. “Make America Great Again” is the conservative one. (It’s the “Again” part that makes it conservative.) The enemies of making America great have one too. If the radicals had red hats, they would say,...
YouTube has announced that it’s deleting videos promoting hate speech, Nazi Ideology, supremacism, and dangerous conspiracy theories, among other subjects. As part of the platform’s sweeping change, notorious metal musician Varg...
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Mike LofgrenDavid Reinert holds a large "Q" sign while waiting in line on to see President Donald J. Trump at his rally August 2, 2018 at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. "Q" represents QAnon, a conspiracy theory...
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Birtherism was the conspiracy theory that was spread throughout Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and the early years of his presidency. It argued that Obama had lied about being born in Hawaii, and was in fact born in his...
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