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Claim: Thomas Jefferson said “When the speech condemns a free press, you are hearing the words of a tyrant.” The premise that a free press is essential to maintaining a free and democratic society is enshrined in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that “Congress …
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The Apollo 11 command module lands in the Pacific Ocean in 1969. (AP)We are living in a golden age of conspiracy theories. Even the president of the United States embraces them.This surely isn’t a good thing for our democracy or our mental health — and yet it can be hard to resist the urge to …
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While his wife, the actress Cheryl Hines, waited in the car, Kennedy met with Sirhan for three hours, he revealed to The Washington Post last week. It was the culmination of months of research by Kennedy into the assassination, including speaking with witnesses and reading the autopsy and police …
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The families of six victims of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School along with an FBI agent who was among the first to respond to the shooting sued InfoWars’ founder Alex Jones and several of his businesses on Wednesday, alleging the radio personality had defamed them by repeatedly …
Read MoreClaim: 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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