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Donald Trump used his first live rally since losing last month’s election to drum home his claim that the result was fraudulent, predicting the matter would “be going up to the Supreme Court very shortly”. Mr Trump’s Saturday evening appearance
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In the imagination of extreme opponents of vaccination — or anti-vaxxers — every human inoculated against coronavirus will be turned into a chimera, injected with nanoparticles that beam out their biometric data and commoditised with bar codes linked to cryptocurrency.
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Will people actually get vaccinated against Covid-19? The city where I live, Paris, currently a pit of grey misery, hopes to start vaccinating the over-65s and other vulnerable groups in January. That is, if people will accept the vaccine. Scarily,
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William Barr, the US attorney-general, on Monday authorised prosecutors to investigate possible instances of electoral fraud in the presidential poll, a break from past practice that delayed such inquiries until after an election was settled. The move came as President
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FT Alphaville has spent some of this week marvelling at the audacity of the White House Gift Shop (a privately owned entity that’s entirely unaffiliated with the actual White House) to be pre-selling a commemorative series of coins dubbed: “PRESIDENT
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During the 2016 US election campaign, a conspiracy theory known as #Pizzagate went viral on rightwing websites. The theory, which claimed that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was involved in a child sex ring run from a Washington pizza restaurant,
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Donald Trump, US president, pictured speaking at a town hall in Miami, left, and Joe Biden, his Democratic rival, at a town hall in Philadelphia © AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump refused to denounce a conspiracy theory peddled by
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In May, Facebook casually invited me to join a conspiracy cult that believes the world is controlled by a Satan-worshipping, baby-eating, deep-state coterie and can only be saved by US president Donald Trump. “Join groups to connect with people who share
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BlackRock, the world’s biggest fund manager, has criticised Volkswagen’s management and supervisory boards, saying the carmaker still suffers from a lack of independent governance five years after Dieselgate. The US group, which is the fourth-largest VW shareholder, revealed it had
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Modern societies are awash in conspiracy theories. This year a tidal wave of pseudoscientific and paranoid nonsense about the coronavirus pandemic has swept the world. Some of it has merged with the disturbingly bizarre QAnon fantasy, according to which President
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