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AUSTIN — More than ever before in his two-decade career built on baseless conspiracy theories, angry nativist rants and end-of-days fearmongering, Alex Jones is being called to account. In a Texas courthouse, his lawyers are battling defamation claims resulting from one of his most infamous acts: …
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ToplineAlex Jones’ inflammatory Infowars franchise will be auctioned Wednesday to help pay the nearly $1.5 billion Jones owes the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which he spread false conspiracy theories on, a judge ruled earlier this year—as officials consider the …
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Picture showing a computer screen displaying the Twitter account of Alex Jones. Jones, who has been… [+] called a Far-right conspiracy theorist, said his Twitter account had been suspended for a week, the latest online platform to take action against the activist. Twitter suspended the personal …
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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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