It’s been a big month for conspiracy theories. Last week, Rep. Adam Schiff sent a strongly worded letter to Google and Facebook about the way their platforms recommend anti-vaccination content to parents, potentially putting healthy populations at...
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During an appearance on conspiracy theory outlet Infowars, Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, said that the president is the victim of a coup attempt. Stone also tried to delegitimize the Department of Justice (DOJ) and its special...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The new campaign of the Hungarian government targeting the European Commission's President Jean-Claude Juncker and Brussels' migration policy promotes falsehoods, the European Commission said Tuesday.
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Conspiracy theories are running wild five years after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Some truth-seekers believe that the Boeing with 289 people on board crashed in a Cambodian jungle, while others say that it flew toward...
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A new conspiracy theory emerged in the conservative echo chamber last month.
Republicans have made many baseless claims about voter fraud in recent years, even though instances of a person impersonating another voter to cast a fraudulent ballot are...
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to work at the Supreme Court today, after a longer than expected recovery from cancer surgery that led some on the right to spread bizarre conspiracy theories:
WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader...
In the words of Mark Twain: “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
Multiple reporters have confirmed that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is at the Supreme Court today, taking part in scheduled closed-door conferences with...
Valentine’s Day 2019 was a day to remember. Americans woke up to news about Andrew McCabe, the former acting director of the FBI, and his new book that outlines the wild days in May of 2017 when members of the Justice Department allegedly...
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Facebook says it will look into removing posts promoting conspiracy theories about vaccines following complaints from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).The company told Bloomberg News on Friday that it is “exploring additional measures to best...
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) trotted out a conspiracy theory to push back against another round of bombshell claims by a former top FBI official — and quickly went down in flames. The Ohio Republican tweeted a rebuttal to allegations by former...
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LaRouche was connected to bizarre conspiracy theories and ran for president eight times between 1976 and 2004.(Image credit: Joel Richardson/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Chuck E. Cheese joined the long list of food-based conspiracy theories this week after a YouTube video laid out the case that the popular birthday party destination recycles old, uneaten slices to reheat as part of new pies.Read more...
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Many are convinced that Princess Diana was murdered.
Ifop made a study about 10 conspiracy theories that widely circulated online since mid-November including the late Princess of Wales’ death. They learned that 40 percent of the Gilet...
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Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, spent years playing footsie with anti-Semites and white nationalists. Despite hailing from a Union state, King once kept a Confederate flag on his office desk, insinuated support for the white genocide conspiracy theory, and...
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Gordon Bombay was handpicked to fail in D2: The Mighty Ducks, in one of the all-time great takedowns of Corporate America. In order to properly digest that stunning notion, let’s flashback 25 years, to the winter of 1994. Across any playground in...
The Amazon C.E.O. accused The National Enquirer of trying to hold him to ransom in a conspiracy theory involving the White House, an affair and revealing images.
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Far-right figures on social media, message boards, and fringe websites have been pushing a conspiracy theory that claims former President Barack Obama is behind the recent mass layoffs at media outlets. These figures...
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You would think Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appearing at a public event would be enough to squash baseless conspiracy theories that she's secretly dead. But you'd be wrong.
On Monday, Ginsburg appeared in public for the first time...
Conspiracy theories have captured the minds of thousands of people throughout history. From John F. Kennedy being murdered by the US government to Buzz Aldrin staging a fake moon landing, some of the most influential historical figures...
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Google had a tough 2018. Not Facebook-level bad, but the company still spent a lot of time on the defensive about the vast amount of consumer data it has access to, some data breaches and YouTube conspiracy theories -- just to name three issues....
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