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Pizzagate is a conspiracy theory regarding a pedophilia ring linked to members of the Democratic Party, and the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. – President Donald Trump was more than halfway through his speech at a rally in Milwaukee when one of his hand gestures caught the eye of a supporter standing in the packed arena. The 51-year-old woman believed the president had traced the shape of the letter “Q” with his fingers as …
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Placeholder while article actions load The fact that the two biggest controversies of the Trump presidency have revolved around Russia and Ukraine — two former Soviet republics in a state of perpetual conflict — might have seemed like a strange coincidence. More and more, we’re learning it’s not. A …
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My Turn: The politics of conspiracy Opinion > Columns A man holds a Q sign – for the QAnon conspiracy theory – while he waits in line to enter a campaign rally for President Donald Trump in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Aug. 2, 2018. AP For the Monitor Published: 8/4/2019 7:00:13 AM Even as we celebrate …
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Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches emailSign up to our free weekly Voices newsletterBuzz Aldrin punched one. Nasa shows them pictures. Scientists point to the data.But the moon landing conspiracy theorists do not go away. Millions of people …
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Americans view the 1969 Apollo moon landing as worth the effort and expense, but in the most recent YouGov poll one in five are not at all sure the moon landing ever happened. Skepticism is greater among those who weren’t alive to watch the landing themselves, and younger adults (as well as …
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The Internet revolution “has displaced the gatekeepers, the producers, editors, and scholars who decided what was worthy of dissemination,” they write. This has opened the way for “conspiracy entrepreneurs” who proffer “a seemingly infinite array of wild accusations.” Is it possible to make a …
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Alex Jones of Infowars talks to the media while visiting the U.S. Senate’s Dirksen Senate office building as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 5, 2018. Alex Jones Host of InfoWars After years of public …
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AUSTIN — More than ever before in his two-decade career built on baseless conspiracy theories, angry nativist rants and end-of-days fearmongering, Alex Jones is being called to account. In a Texas courthouse, his lawyers are battling defamation claims resulting from one of his most infamous acts: …
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If you watched any of President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday night, you likely caught a glimpse of people holding up signs with “Q” or “QAnon” printed on them. Those people are adherents of a broad-scale conspiracy theory that pits President Trump against a global …
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The “moon landing hoax” was among the first conspiracy theories to gain traction with the American public. In the years since, the theories have multiplied like jack rabbits, swarming all corners of the cultural landscape. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, some fringe activists …
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