Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs

October 3, 2023 alex jones, david icke, illuminati, moon landing, pizzagate, qanon, ufos

Archived 3 years ago from The Guardian
Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs

Brent Lee struggles to explain why he used to believe that a cabal of evil satanic paedophiles was working to establish a new world order. He pauses, looks sheepish, and says: “I cringe at all this now.”For 15 years, Lee collected signs that so-called Illuminati overlords were controlling global …

QAnon

September 26, 2023 adrenochrome, pizzagate

Archived 3 years ago from LGBTQ Nation
QAnon believer faces 5 years for death threat against “Satanic, trans” politician

A New Mexico QAnon believer has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a cisgender Texas congresswoman because he thought she was a Satanic, transgender pedophile. He now faces up to five years in prison. At 9:04 p.m. on May 18, 2023, a man named Michael David Fox, called the office of an unnamed …

QAnon

September 21, 2023 2020 election, maga, pizzagate, sidney powell, trump

Archived 3 years ago from The Independent
Lin Wood faces wrath of QAnon and GOP allies as he insists he’s not flipping on Trump

Election conspiracy theorist Lin Wood, identified by Georgia prosecutors as a state witness as part of a sprawling criminal case targeting Donald Trump and 18 of his allies, is beating back claims that he has turned against the former president following a barrage of headlines anticipating his day …

9/11

September 11, 2023 2020 election, alex jones, antivax, cia, david icke, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 3 years ago from CounterPunch
Why I Criticize 9/11 Conspiracies

Another year, another anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I feel compelled once more to follow up on what I have previously argued on this subject, if nothing else in the hope that I will get through to some members of the so-called “9/11 Truth” movement and persuade them what a worthless …

QAnon

September 2, 2023 adrenochrome, epstein, maga, pizzagate

Archived 3 years ago from Salon
QAnon 2.0: “Sound of Freedom” and the rise of MAGA vigilantism

I once met a former Scientologist at a backyard barbecue who explained to me how L. Ron Hubbard, the mediocre science fiction author who founded the Church of Scientology in the 1950s, got his retro-pulp novel “Battlefield Earth” on the bestseller lists in 1982. According to this fellow, the church …

QAnon

August 16, 2023 2020 election, adrenochrome, deep state, george soros, marjorie taylor greene, pizzagate

Archived 2 years ago from The Guardian
From Sound of Freedom to Ron DeSantis: how QAnon’s crazy conspiracy theories went mainstream

It is the nature of conspiracy theories to turn tragedy into grist, to transform grief and human suffering into an abstract game. The latest horrifying example came out of news late July that Barack Obama’s chef Tafari Campbell had drowned in the waters off Martha’s Vineyard. What was a terrible …

QAnon

August 14, 2023 pizzagate

Archived 3 years ago from Rolling Stone
‘Sound of Freedom’ Director Denies Promoting QAnon Movement

More than a month after his indie thriller Sound of Freedom premiered in theaters, setting off waves of hype, criticism, and conspiracy theories, director Alejandro Monteverde has weighed in on the film’s runaway success and defended its portrayal of child sex trafficking. Organizations leading the …

QAnon

August 13, 2023 2020 election, alex jones, antivax, illuminati, nazi, pizzagate

Archived 3 years ago from Salon
QAnon’s weirdest obsession: Why does the radical far right fear the Masons?

In my most recent nonfiction book, “Operation Mindf**k: QAnon & the Cult of Donald Trump,” I focused extensively on a “QTuber” named Rick Rene, because I viewed him then and now as the perfectly imperfect microcosm of the entire messed-up QAnon universe, which perceives the Democratic Party as an …

Conspiracy

August 12, 2023 fauci, pizzagate

Archived 3 years ago from Business Insider
Moderation on a popular AI image generator can be easily circumvented to create images that drive conspiracy theories, new report finds

A new report reveals there are loopholes in the Midjourney moderation system. Tim Wimborne/Reuters p” class=”inline-offer pre-churn-offer”> Redeem now Midjourney, a generative AI platform, bans users from creating abusive images, according to its terms of service. However, a new report shared with …

Conspiracy

August 8, 2023 big tech, pizzagate

Archived 3 years ago from Media Matters for America
Elon Musk’s Twitter rewards far-right conspiracy theorist with ad revenue, even after posting child sexual abuse imagery on the platform

Far-right conspiracy theorist Dom Lucre — who was banned from Twitter (now called X) last month for sharing a screenshot from a child sexual abuse video and then unilaterally reinstated less than a day later by owner Elon Musk — has announced he has received money from the platform’s ad revenue …

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