The 9/11 and Kenya conspiracy theorists each had their own nicknames: “Truthers” and “Birthers,” respectively. But the Russia fanatics have not received their own title — some call them “Russia truthers.” Not quite as snappy, nor was my go-to label for a while: “Birthers with Advanced Degrees.” So I’m proposing a new nickname for the Putin-obsessed: the “Rushers.”
An internet channel owned by Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera uploaded a video last week claiming Jews control the porn industry and use it to “corrupt people” because they “hate Christ.”
CNN is so desperate to attack President Trump, the far-left cable channel is now manufacturing dangerous hypothetical conspiracy theories about the future.
The Russiagate conspiracy exposed a fake new trifecta. First, reporters and their allies hate Trump; second, they over-trust their sources; and third, they have such a strong reason to believe anything bad about Trump that they end up as dupes, playing unwitting roles in a conspiracy theory.
President Donald Trump bashed internet conspiracies Wednesday and called out “fake news” for attacks against his wife, First Lady Melania Trump.
Some Facebook content moderators have resorted to using drugs while on break as an escape from the “misery” of seeing traumatic images on the platform, which have led some to develop symptoms similar to PTSD after they leave the social media giant.
“My name is Logan Paul and I’m coming out of the flat-earth closet,” said the YouTube star.
TEL AVIV – A professor who claimed “Israelis blew up Twin Towers” has prompted a Jewish group to demand the University of Sussex in England strip him of his emeritus status.
GQ writer Nathaniel Friedman spread the conspiracy theory Tuesday that the former Nazi SS guard deported by the Trump administration is a “plant” to make ICE look noble and heroic.”
President Donald Trump denied Friday a claim from his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen that he knew about his son Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian agent during the 2016 campaign.
First Lady Melania Trump appeared at Ford’s Theater’s annual gala on Sunday night just two days after her husband President Donald Trump smashed conspiracy theories over why she would not be traveling with him to Canada and Singapore.
First Lady Melania Trump took to Twitter Wednesday afternoon to put to rest conspiracy theories spread online and in the media since she underwent and has been recovering from a routine medical procedure.
As though he were not a crucial part of the establishment vanguard that forever destroyed civility and trust, New York magazine’s Andrew Sullivan spent no fewer than 2600 ponderous words Friday waxing nostalgic for the good old days when people of good faith could agree to disagree.
Anti-Trump activist Brian Stelter used his CNN perch this weekend to spread one of the silliest conspiracy theories in recent memory, this one about Fox News controlling President Trump.
YouTube Kids, the YouTube app aimed specifically at children, was caught suggesting videos on conspiracy theories about the moon landing, reptilians, and the Earth’s shape.
YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to “conspiracy theory” videos on the platform in an effort to combat alternative narratives, according to a report.
Damian Collins, the Tory MP investigating far-fetched claims that Vladimir Putin swung the Brexit vote, is an ultra-Remainer and admirer of George Soros who spread state-manufactured ‘fake news’ during the EU referendum.
A hijab-wearing contestant of the French version of the popular television programme The Voice is facing calls to leave the programme after tweets surfaced of her calling the Nice attacks of 2016 a government conspiracy and calling the French government terrorists.
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough scolded lawmakers criticizing the FBI for perceived political bias. According to Scarborough, this line of attack entered into “conspiracy theory” territory and made the public “less safe.” “When these conspiracy theories are
A Palestinian cleric alleged that the US and India are involved in a global plot to harm Muslims and Islam through the use of narcotics, while pointing the main finger of blame at Israel, in a tirade mixing classic anti-Semitism with bizarre expressions of esteem for the Jewish State’s achievements.
Pending further evidence, the idea that the DNC hack was an inside job is still just a conspiracy theory — but no crazier than the idea that Russia colluded with Donald Trump, for which no evidence has emerged.
Former Hillary Clinton campaign chief John Podesta broke his silence on Twitter to fuel conspiracy theories about Donald Trump and Russia.
The case for firing former FBI Director James Comey has been made at length by both Democrats and Republicans.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, former Breitbart News National Security editor and current deputy assistant to President Trump, discussed Syria policy on Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily.
UC Berkeley’s official alumni website have repeated Robert Reich’s conspiracy theory that claims Breitbart News paid anti-fascist protesters to cause violence and start the riot during Breitbart Senior Editor MILO’s show at the college last week.
Ankara’s outspoken mayor on Tuesday warned that outside forces could be using sophisticated technology to try to trigger a manmade earthquake in a deliberate bid to harm Turkey’s fragile economy.
It is odd that the very people who insisted prior to the election, that Hillary Clinton’s email “mistake” was a non-scandal are now claiming that an e-mail hack is responsible for a foreign intervention in our election that is a major national crisis.
A prominent advisor to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cooked up a simmering controversy with the suggestion that foreign chefs on Turkish television shows are undercover spies.
JERUSALEM – An event attended by former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was slammed by pro-Israel student groups over its claim that “Israel manipulates the minds of politicians and ordinary Americans.”
TEL AVIV – Only one in 25 British Muslims believe Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist group was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, a new poll has found.
By defining — or demonizing — Trump, the left is beginning the process of finding a basic opposition agenda, however contrived, that can guide it through the difficult months ahead.
A columnist for Egypt’s official state media has implied that the September 11 attacks and recent terrorist attacks in Europe were not carried out by Islamist terrorists, but rather they were the work of Western intelligence agencies.
Several journalists were harassed by German police as they attempted to cover the notoriously secretive Bilderberg conference being held this year in Dresden. The Bilderberg conference invokes strong reaction among some for its commitment to holding meetings among the most
An absurd conspiracy theory regarding the fate of child beauty pageant star JonBenét Ramsey is making its way around the web this week.
As Latin America scrambles to help explain the Zika pandemic that has affected over a million people in the Western Hemisphere so far, conspiracy theories pushed by Russia and anti-Western outlets have begun to gather steam in social media and alternative news outlets.
Gennady Onishchenko, former head of the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection (Rospotrebnadzor) and former chief sanitary doctor of Russia, told the BBC he believes the United States is involved in the widespread presence of Zika virus in Latin America.
Conspiracy theories are beginning to swirl in the aftermath of the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was found dead at 79 in his room on Saturday morning at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in Texas.
The Daily Beast published a piece by author Rob Brotherton that explains “How the Illuminati Stole the Mind, Soul, and Body of Hip-Hop.”
TEL AVIV – Although the Islamic State terror group has already taken credit for downing a Russian passenger plane over the Sinai Peninsula, such a claim has not convinced many within the Arab world who see events through the lens
Growing confidence among Western intelligence agencies that a terrorist bomb brought down the Russian Metrojet airliner over Sinai on Oct. 31 is not being received well by some in Egypt, where tourism is a major part of the economy.
