Conspiracy news & views from all angles, up-to-the-minute and uncensored
2020 Trump vs Biden election conspiracies
Marc-André Argentino, Amarnath Amarasingam 29 Oct 2020 The QAnon conspiracy emerged on 28 October 2017, when a user named “Q” posted what were purported to be highly classified government secrets on 4chan’s /pol/ (politically incorrect) discussion board, contributing to a
Read MoreQAnon is a baseless conspiracy theory centered on the belief that a deep state of Democratic elites are running an underground child trafficking ring. The conspiracy theory is catching on with a growing number of people, from suburban moms to
Read More
IMAGE: USC scientists analyzed tweets from June 20 to Sept. 9, 2020, and found that right-leaning bots were responsible for 20% of the tweets on certain conspiracy theories, including QAnon, so-called… view more Credit: USC Institute for Information Sciences Bots and
Read More
. In 2016, University of Miami political scientist Joseph Uscinski tried to imagine a conspiracy theorist as president, someone “sitting at the most powerful desk in the world, complete with the codes to a nuclear arsenal.” By the time Uscinski
Read More
Bots and conspiracy theorists have infested the Twitter chatter around the upcoming U.S. presidential election, USC researchers have found. Looking at more than 240 million election-related tweets, the study found that thousands of automated accounts, known as bots, had posted
Read More
Misinformation has been spreading like wildfire in the lead-up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In the last couple of months, QAnon has gone mainstream. The unfounded internet conspiracy theory alleges the world is run by a cabal of satan-worshiping
Read More
The conspiracy group QAnon has made headlines in the run up to the 2020 general election. What started out as a fringe internet group has slowly made its way into U.S. politics. But what exactly is QAnon? At it’s core,
Read More
Bots and conspiracy theorists have infested the Twitter chatter around the upcoming U.S. presidential election, USC researchers have found. Looking at more than 240 million election-related tweets, the study found that thousands of automated accounts, known as bots, had posted
Read More
Conspiracy theories have exploded online during the pandemic and in the days leading up to the election, bombarding people with false narratives intended to cause fear and disorder. CNET senior producer Dan Patterson joins CBSN’s “Red & Blue” anchor Elaine
Read More
YouTube is facing a lawsuit from a group of channel owners who say their rights were violated by the platform’s recent moderation actions against QAnon accounts. The users, many of whom boasted hundreds of thousands of followers on the platform,
Read More