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Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In Thursday’s edition of this newsletter, Emily Bell wrote about the increasingly curious right-wing-media dynamics surrounding the biggest political story of the moment: the Trump administration’s frantic, yet seemingly doomed, attempts to move …
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Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Zach Mack’s father said weird things here and there before the pandemic, but once the world shut down, in 2020, he veered deep into a world of conspiracy and political prophecy. He’d always had a penchant for certain theories—he was skeptical of …
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On October 4, about a hundred people began filing into a community hall in Stroud, a pretty town in southern England that, like many of its peers, has a vein of disaffection and despondency running just under the surface. They were gathering to discuss the appearance of a new paper in the town …
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Fifty-five years ago last month, Robert F. Kennedy—the brother of JFK and surging candidate for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination, who had just won the California primary—was making his way to a press conference when he was shot dead. Kennedy had been talking to a reporter when the shot …
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In 2016, the Oxford English Dictionary made ‘post-truth’ its word of the year, signaling a turn in Western politics towards not just competing narratives based on a shared understanding of the facts, but of competing facts themselves. The ‘paranoid style in American politics’ that Richard …
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After Donald Trump was elected, in 2016, misinformation—and its more toxic cousin, disinformation—began to feel like an increasingly urgent social and political emergency. Concerns about Russian trolls meddling in American elections were soon joined by hoaxes and conspiracy theories involving …
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Recently, a group of unnamed hackers claiming association with the hacker collective known as Anonymous released more than 180 gigabytes of data from Epik, a web-hosting company whose clients included a number of alt-right groups and services, including right-wing Twitter alternatives Gab and …
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Last year, reported sightings of unidentified flying objects increased in the US, Canada, and across the globe. In August, the Pentagon reported the formation of a task force intended to investigate UFO sightings. Recently, The New Yorker printed thirteen thousand words on the history of the US …
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Image by Richard James Mendoza/NurPhoto via AP In late May, The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, published a study raising urgent red flags about the use of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, to treat covid-19. At the time, the drug had been in the news for several weeks. President …
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In the past few weeks, QAnon—a right-wing conspiracy premised on the idea that Donald Trump is working with military intelligence to bring down a global ring of child-eating pedophiles—has been the object of considerable media speculation. Though the conspiracy has been around for years, QAnon has …
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