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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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