There have been a lot of bizarre conspiracy theories and disinformation going around about Hurricanes Helene and Milton over the last few weeks — that the government created them and controls them, that those who had suffered extreme losses would…[Continue Reading...]
QAnon is believed to have first started in 2017 after an anonymous poster, who hailed themselves as 'Q', alleged that they had a level of US security approval known as 'Q clearance'. Using the message board 4chan, the person started…[Continue Reading...]
The 1969 moon landing? Fake. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Cuba really did it. Thomas Jefferson’s bitterly contested election in 1800? Choreographed by hidden hands. Political conspiracy theories have long found receptive audiences in the U.S., often on…[Continue Reading...]
QAnon beliefs and adjacent conspiracy theories have had devastating political consequences as they’ve exploded in popularity. What’s often overlooked is the lasting havoc they wreak on our society at its most basic and intimate level — the family. In The…[Continue Reading...]
QAnon beliefs and adjacent conspiracy theories have had devastating political consequences as they’ve exploded in popularity. What’s often overlooked is the lasting havoc they wreak on our society at its most basic and intimate level — the family. In The…[Continue Reading...]
Not long ago, a millennial father of two in the Midwest I interviewed was convinced that many of our elected leaders like to feast on the flesh of children. He feared that the world was at the mercy of a…[Continue Reading...]
When Jesselyn Cook wrote about the children of QAnon believers as a HuffPost reporter in 2021, she didn’t expect the reaction she would receive ― hundreds upon hundreds of emails from readers, all of who had lived some version of…[Continue Reading...]
Abominable Pictures (Children’s Hospital, Wet Hot American Summer, Mission Implausible) and Green Couch Entertainment (The Deported) have optioned journalist and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild’s 2023’s Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories. The book, and Rothchild’s…[Continue Reading...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many phrases associated with QAnon have largely disappeared from mainstream social media, mostly because of the platforms' "belated efforts" to crack down on the conspiracy theory, researchers at a U.S. think tank said on Wednesday. QAnon…[Continue Reading...]
False allegations that COVID-19 vaccines turn children gay or trans are spreading rapidly on Telegram, the messaging-based social-media app. Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian, an Iranian cleric who is known for spreading false medical claims, appeared to be the first to popularize…[Continue Reading...]
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