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QAnon and related conspiracy theories like Pizzagate
An Arizona county Republican Party official who also leads an election denial organization in the state used a recent appearance on a QAnon-affiliated Rumble channel to encourage viewers to inundate election administration officials with public records requests — a tactic increasingly popular in …
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A bizarre situation unfolding within the Orthodox Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch movement is going viral in the wider world, driving a raft of antisemitic conspiracy theories online and reviving some of the oldest slurs against Jewish communities. At issue are a group of buildings that surround 770 …
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Liberal commentators frequently condemn conspiracy theories that threaten public safety. The US mainstream media exploded in 2016 when an armed man harassed diners in a Washington DC pizzeria, allegedly because he subscribed to the QAnon online conspiracy theory claiming that a Hillary …
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Over the past few years, BBC podcast producer Lucy Proctor has built a reputation for shining a much broader and more searching beam into the world of conspiracy theories than most other mainstream journalists. Read more The Cable is now creating weekly podcasts.Check out our latest episodes, from …
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2023 was a bumper year for conspiracy theories. There are some signs of reckoning, including the epic settlement imposed recently on Rudy Giuliani for his delirious election conspiracies. But such victories are few and far between. Antisemitism has spiked in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict, …
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Newly released documents from a settled lawsuit involving the late financier Jeffrey Epstein held few new details, but that hasn’t stopped social media users from speculating about high-profile names found in the pages. Hundreds of pages released Wednesday night were part of the civil defamation …
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ByPrapti Upadhayay Jan 04, 2024 06:27 PM IST Share Via Copy Link Far-right commentators selectively extract snippets from released documents to claim exoneration for Trump. Jeffrey Epstein’s list has created quite a stir in United States after big names linked to him were confirmed by recently …
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I’m exploring the development of conspiracy theories relating to the origins of COVID-19 and plan to write up my notes (time permitting). I will refer to events occurring before the pandemic, so I’m going to set the stage by reviewing some of the relevant events that preceded the pandemic, and try …
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On Boxing Day pro-Palestine demonstrators met customers at the Zara sale in the Westfield shopping centre, in Stratford, east London. They were not there to wish them the compliments of the season. ‘Bombs are dropping while you’re shopping’, they chanted, as police stood by to make sure the …
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Right-wing extremism has played a key role in spreading conspiracy theories targeting marginalized individuals and groups, unnecessarily blaming them for a variety of societal problems. In the last year, some of the claims that started on the media fringes of the far right have crept into the …
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