Conspiracy news & views from all angles, up-to-the-minute and uncensored
Big Tech
The spread of false narratives around three recent extreme weather events in Latin America shows how climate change misinformation in Spanish and Portuguese can undermine efforts to address and mitigate the effects of global warming in the region, according to a new study released …
Read More
Foreign interference groups are attempting to build and reach online audiences ahead of a number of significant elections next year, “and we need to remain alert,” Meta warned on Thursday.National elections are set to be held in the United States, United Kingdom and India — three of the world’s …
Read More
Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has committed the platform to “combat antisemitism,” insisting “there’s absolutely no place for it anywhere in the world.” But this supposed crackdown on hate is being undermined by the conspiracy theorist and far-right broadcaster Stew Peters, who was reinstated to the …
Read More
Jennie King, head of climate research and policy at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said: “We have reached a very interesting juncture where the end goals or the objectives of information warfare and information operations around climate are no longer exclusively about the process of …
Read More
TikTok, a social media platform with more than a billion active global users, has announced a shift to more aggressive communications tactics after coming under criticism for becoming a major source of propaganda and disinformation about the Israel-Hamas war. Users disproportionally propagate …
Read More
In October 2023, Nigeria’s government launched a new vaccine drive aimed at curbing cervical cancer, which claims around 8,000 lives in the West African country every year. But the campaign has also seen the spread of conspiracy theories, including from public figures. An influential radio host …
Read More
CNN — The judge overseeing the Fulton County election racketeering case declined Tuesday to send one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants to jail over recent social media posts and other comments he made targeting witnesses. Judge Scott McAfee said that while the defendant, Harrison Floyd, made …
Read More
Paul Landis stood guard outside Parkland Memorial Hospital’s Trauma Room No. 1 as Father Oscar Huber rushed past, dressed in his Roman collar. It was just before 1 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963. Less than half an hour earlier, Landis had been riding on the running board of a Secret Service car when …
Read More
Social media networks remain instrumental in shaping public opinion about the Israel-Hamas war, including by boosting propaganda and disinformation. One of the most discussed topics is Hamas tunnels, a network of secret underground passages and bunkers extending throughout Gaza to Israel. Some …
Read More
As the war between Israel and Hamas has intensified in Gaza, disinformation and conspiracy theories about the conflict have been increasingly circulating on social media. At least that’s what I found in my analysis of some 12,000 comments posted on Telegram channels in the immediate aftermath of …
Read More