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By Dana Milbank, “Report: Three Million Votes in Presidential Election Cast by Illegal Aliens; Trump may have won popular vote.” — Infowars,website of leading conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Nov. 14 “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct …
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AI-assisted summaryAn active shooter was reported at Florida State University, leading to two deaths and six injuries.A suspect is in custody, but police have not confirmed if he is the shooter.False rumors about comedian Sam Hyde being the shooter spread online.This story has been updated to …
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Kanye West was hospitalized on Monday shortly after canceling the last 21 shows of his national tour. Most reports suggest the rapper suffered from temporary psychosis, but some paranoiac skeptics believe that he is just being reprogrammed after challenging the status quo and praising Donald Trump. …
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Claim: Hillary Clinton had a teleprompter hidden on her lectern during the first presidential debate. A series of conspiracy theories circulated after the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on 26 September 2016, holding that the Democratic nominee had somehow rigged …
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This essay is part of a series The New Yorker will be running through the election titled “Trump and the Truth.” It is no surprise that, by feverishly indulging conspiracy theories of many kinds, Donald Trump would end up reintroducing America to the master conspiracy theory of them all, the first …
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Claim: Eerie clouds over Geneva were caused by the particle collider at CERN opening a portal to a new dimension. What’s True There was a storm over Geneva in June 2016, and nature photographer Christophe Suarez captured images from the event. What’s False The photographs do not portray CERN …
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Oren Aks/ThrillistOren Aks/ThrillistIf you thought juicy, batshit conspiracy theories were limited to acts of war, mid-’90s Mel Gibson vehicles, and Beyonce-Z’s marriage… you clearly haven’t been exposed to enough weird corners of the internet: even what we eat and drink is suspect to bonkers …
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“I don’t know his father. I met him once. I think he’s a lovely guy,” Donald Trump said at a morning-after rally in Cleveland. | Getty By DAN SPINELLI 07/22/2016 11:25 AM EDT A day after accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for president, Donald Trump rehashed a conspiracy theory that claims …
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Claim: Fire and smoke billowing from the vicinity of the Eiffel Tower were evidence of a Bastille Day terrorist attack in Paris. Just after a devastating attack in Nice, France, on 14 July 2016 — in which dozens of people were killed and still more wounded when a man identified as French-Tunisian …
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On December 2nd, while the awful news from San Bernardino was erupting, bit by unconfirmed bit, I was surprised by the crisp self-assurance of a couple of bloggers whose names were new to me. They were on it—number of victims, names of shooters, police-radio intercepts. Soon, though, the bloggers …
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