Is a Hillary Clinton ‘Snuff Film’ Circulating on the Dark Web?

April 16, 2018 adrenochrome, deep state, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 3 years ago from Snopes Fact Checks
Is a Hillary Clinton ‘Snuff Film’ Circulating on the Dark Web?

Claim: An “extreme snuff film” in which Hillary Clinton and aide Huma Abedin are seen raping and mutilating a prepubescent girl is circulating on the dark web under the code name “Frazzledrip.” Somewhere on the dark web there exists a video of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and longtime …

The science of conspiracies: Where Flat Earth meets Pizzagate

Conspiracy

February 22, 2018 9/11, antivax, flat earth, pizzagate

Archived 4 years ago from Axios
The science of conspiracies: Where Flat Earth meets Pizzagate

Illustration: Rebecca Zisser / Axios “Fake news” was rampant throughout the 2016 election — and it’s still around. But it’s hardly new: people have believed in conspiracy theories for ages, and scientists are no stranger to combating them. The bottom line: From anti-vaccine conspiracies to climate …

Were News Stories About the Florida Mass Shooting Posted Days Before It Happened?

Conspiracy

February 20, 2018 alex jones

Archived 2 years ago from Snopes Fact Checks
Were News Stories About the Florida Mass Shooting Posted Days Before It Happened?

Claim: News stories about a mass shooting at a Florida high school were timestamped days earlier than 14 February 2018, which prove that the mass shooting was actually a “false flag” hoax. A gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on 14 February 2018, killing …

Was the Suspected Florida High School Shooter Affiliated with the Islamic State?

Conspiracy

February 15, 2018 alex jones

Archived 1 year ago from Snopes Fact Checks
Was the Suspected Florida High School Shooter Affiliated with the Islamic State?

Claim: Accused school shooter Nikolas Cruz has ties to the Islamic State or other Islamic extremist groups. In the aftermath of a deadly high school shooting in south Florida in February 2018, conspiracy theorist web site Infowars offered speculation about the suspected perpetrator’s ideological …

8 Scientific Conspiracies That Turned Out To Be True

Conspiracy

February 11, 2018 alex jones, cia, mkultra, moon landing, nasa, nazi, roswell, tuskegee experiment, ufos

Archived 3 years ago from IFLScience
8 Scientific Conspiracies That Turned Out To Be True

The past couple of years have seen the resurgence of the conspiracy theorist, but instead of the foil hat wearing, megaphone-wielding whack job of old, the conspiracy theorist of 2018 sits behind a keyboard and sets up GoFundMe pages raising money to launch homemade rockets.Vaccines cause autism. …

Has an Indictment Been Issued in the Uranium One Investigation?

Conspiracy

January 24, 2018

Archived 1 year ago from Snopes Fact Checks
Has an Indictment Been Issued in the Uranium One Investigation?

Claim: A Maryland man has been indicted in connection with the Uranium One investigation. On 12 January 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an eleven-count indictment against a Maryland man who is accused of bribing a former Russian energy official in a scheme to win nuclear fuel …

Were DACA Recipients Photographed Burning an American Flag?

Conspiracy

January 3, 2018

Archived 1 year ago from Snopes Fact Checks
Were DACA Recipients Photographed Burning an American Flag?

Claim: A photograph shows a group of DACA recipients dressed in Mexican flags burning an American flag. An old image purportedly showing a group of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals act burning an American flag took another lap around the internet in December 2017, after it …

Did ‘Antifa’ Pour Concrete on Railroad Tracks, Causing an Amtrak Train to Derail?

Conspiracy

December 19, 2017 alex jones

Archived 1 year ago from Snopes Fact Checks
Did ‘Antifa’ Pour Concrete on Railroad Tracks, Causing an Amtrak Train to Derail?

Claim: “Antifa” admitted to pouring concrete on train tracks causing an Amtrak train to derail. What’s True In an April 2017 post on an anarchist web site, a group claimed to have poured concrete on train tracks in Washington to prevent the shipment of fracking materials. What’s False Whether the …

Did ‘Mexican Drug Cartels’ Start the California Wildfires?

Conspiracy

October 17, 2017

Archived 1 year ago from Snopes Fact Checks
Did ‘Mexican Drug Cartels’ Start the California Wildfires?

Claim: Officials say the October 2017 California wildfires were started by Mexican drug cartels in order to gain a strategic advantage over the legal marijuana industry. As wildfires caused devastation in parts of California in the fall of 2017, conspiracy theories about their causes followed …

Conspiracy

October 9, 2017 flat earth, jfk assassination, moon landing, nasa, pizzagate

Archived 6 years ago from The Verge
If a scientific conspiracy theory is funny, that doesn’t mean it’s a joke

If you feel like flat Earth theory has gotten unaccountably popular recently, you’re right. According to Google Trends, search interest in the flat Earth conspiracy theory has already had several distinct peaks in the last year. (“The last year” was 2017, not 1519, just to be clear.) It’s funny, …

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