QAnon has a new obsession: Huggies diapers. Over the last week, the cult’s latest baseless conspiracy theory—that Huggies diapers feature secret symbols linked to pedophilia—went viral after a QAnon influencer on Twitter, recently reinstated on the platform by Elon Musk,…[Continue Reading...]
“To say that Lyndon was slightly paranoid would be like saying the Titanic had a bit of a leak.” This is what disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker wrote about the man with whom he shared a cell in a Minnesota federal…[Continue Reading...]
In the 1970s, ranchers all over the country began reporting something strange. Their cows were turning up dead, with portions of their faces and genitals removed. Historian Michael J. Goleman dove into the mystery, and found answers that had nothing…[Continue Reading...]
Misinformation can feel inescapable. Last summer a survey from the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies found that 62 percent of people regularly notice false or misleading information online. And in a 2019 poll, almost nine in 10 people admitted…[Continue Reading...]
Hundreds of accounts that were recently allowed back on Twitter have been spreading abuse or misinformation, a BBC investigation has found. In exclusive research, BBC Monitoring analysed over 1,100 previously banned Twitter accounts that were reinstated under new owner Elon…[Continue Reading...]
Social media remains primary source for QAnon information despite mainstream bans, Morning Consult data shows, and experts warn that Trump’s return to Facebook and Twitter could re-energize the movement Users of alt-tech platforms including Truth Social, Parler, Rumble and Telegram…[Continue Reading...]
Woody Harrelson's Saturday Night Live hosting gig has found the star surrounded by controversy. As the Academy Award nominee, 61, was inducted into the show's Five-Timers Club, Harrelson not-so-subtly shared some anti-vaccine views during his opening monologue with a joke…[Continue Reading...]
ON OCTOBER 18, 2018, film executive Franklin Leonard’s phone started vibrating and would not stop. His eyes grew wide as his screen filled up with Twitter alerts from strangers hurling vicious, baffling insults at him, hundreds of tweets at a…[Continue Reading...]
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has filed for bankruptcy but has nearly $10m (£8.3m) in assets and spends almost $100,000 (£83,000) a month, according to court filings. He owes almost $1.5bn in court-awarded damages to relatives of victims in the 2012…[Continue Reading...]
Growing up in Texas, Will Sommer was a conservative, listening to Rush Limbaugh broadcasts and Ayn Rand audiobooks on family road trips. His politics changed when he went to college, but his obsession with conservative media never dimmed. “I was…[Continue Reading...]
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