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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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Claim: The man accused of opening fire on hundreds of people in a Las Vegas casino in October 2017 was spotted at an anti-Trump protest two months earlier. The aftermath of a mass shooting is often a springboard for misinformation as ordinary citizens attempt to do their own investigative work. …
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Claim: Justine Damond became one of dozens of holistic doctors fighting “Big Pharma” who suspiciously died. On 16 July 2017, alternative health blogger Erin Elizabeth reported on her web site Health Nut News that Justine Ruszczyk (who primarily used her fiance’s surname, Damond), a 40-year-old …
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Seth Rich died on the night of July 10, 2016. The conspiracy theories were born days later. The process by which these baseless theories about his death snaked from Reddit to Twitter to Fox News illustrates just how thin the membrane has become between the conspiracy world and the mainstream.Police …
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