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Not even Kristi Noem is taking the bait on this one.Newsmax’s Eric Bolling was the latest to roll out a wild theory on how a tale of Noem shooting a puppy to death and a separate anecdote that turned out ...

Donald Trump's lawyers famously spend a lot of their time placating their client's narcissistic delusions, even at the expense of their purported priority of keeping him out of prison. It's not just the over-the-top belligerence that Trump demands from his ...

Like Henry Ford before him, Elon Musk has emerged as America’s top conspiracy spreader. But he’s hardly alone. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the conspiracy-theory candidate for president, and as Paul Krugman observed last summer, was attracting “support from some ...

Which conspiracy theories have been proved true? Anne Gibson, LeicesterSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com.Readers replyTrue? That’s what they want you to think. sparklesthewonderhenThe 1980s theory that there were moves afoot to institute a culture of mass surveillance in the UK, ...

​The aliens of Area 51 Area 51 is a highly classified military base in Nevada, and has long been associated with aliens, UFO’s, and alien experiments. Conspiracy theorists believe that the government is hiding evidence of aliens on site and ...

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) insisted on Fox News Friday, during a segment opposing the latest round of student loan forgiveness from the Biden administration, that the campus protesters are backed by a Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire philanthropist — and completely deflected ...

So you've got a loved one who's fallen deep down the conspiracy rabbit hole. Are they destined to stay there forever?Today, we hear from a former conspiracy theorist and a social psychologist on what fuels these beliefs, how likely people ...

The Chinese state-run outlet China Daily published an editorial on April 24 about student protests across U.S. college campuses titled "US people know what is going on." The editorial coincided with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's three-day visit to ...

Open this photo in gallery:A Qanon believer speaks to a crowd of President Donald Trump supporters outside of the Maricopa County Recorder's Office in Phoenix, Az., on Nov. 5, 2020.Dario Lopez-MIlls/The Associated PressConspiracy theories describe what adherents believe to be ...

The reported funding of anti-Israel protests and pro-Hamas encampments throughout US campuses sparked a wave of conspiracy theories on social media, going even further than other libels have gone so far.One of these modern age blood libels, which once again ...

Some of the most senior prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) of Reform, the rightwing populist party, have been found to have posted conspiracy theories and other fringe views online. Yet, far from distancing itself, the party has backed them. Here are ...

Varied Causes Do "parasites, metals and viruses" cause all "diseases and illnesses," as a post on TikTok claimed? No, that's not true: An infectious disease expert told Lead Stories that the "causes of human diseases are extraordinarily varied." Besides parasites ...

Reform UK has chosen to stand by candidates who have promoted conspiracy theories online, called the climate emergency “make-believe” and expressed vaccine-sceptic views.Those fringe views, and more, were put forward by a group of seven candidates selected to stand for ...

We were in the wilds of rural Georgia investigating this one ghost story, a really interesting case involving this young African American guy who is from a very, very deeply religious family. But the prodigal member of his family was ...

Writing in two posts on social media website X, formerly Twitter, Mr Jones — who was previously banned from the website for abusive behaviour before his account was restored by Elon Musk in December — said: “The WEF (World Economic ...

According to online posts, J.K. Rowling has sold her mansion in the UK and is moving to Russia because of its “traditional values”. But Full Fact could find no evidence this is true and a spokesperson for the author said ...

We tracked nearly 4,000 conspiracist-leaning Telegram channels and groups across more than 20 European languages - here’s what we found. ADVERTISEMENTOn 9 February 2024, Dutch MEP Rob Roos told an audience in Poland that the EU Green Deal was “destroying ...

Over 150 Bilderbergers (of the 1,861 who are still alive) have played important parts in the Covid-19 event. Many, perhaps most, of the below have been active in various roles; this page attempts to name and shame them and reveal ...

Disney has created some of the most memorable and most loved characters in animation. While many are based on fairy tales and legends of old, Disney movies have also spawned their own mythologies. And just as there are there are ...

"The Wuhan Cover-Up" blares the subject line of a recent presidential campaign email. Inside, it's all impenetrable conspiracy theory language that reads more like a QAnon post than a normal political fundraiser: Why wasn’t Dr. Anthony Fauci charged with a ...