Conspiracy theories about vaccines. Secret meetings with dictators. An enemies list. President Donald Trump’ s most controversial Cabinet nominees — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel — flooded the zone Thursday in back-to-back-to-back confirmation hearings that were like nothing the Senate has seen in modern memory. The onslaught of claims, promises and testy exchanges did not occur in a political vacuum. The […]
Jean-Marie Le Pen's lifelong obsession with Holocaust denial was strictly off the agenda at his carefully staged funeral and burial. A few days after the January 7, 2025 death of France's extreme right patriarch at the age of 96, Le Pen's clan assembled in La Trinité-sur-Mer. It was the village where the Front National founder […]
Elon Musk has a new friend in British politics, in the form of Tommy Robinson, the far right grifter currently in jail for persistently spreading false information in violation of a court order. In the early hours of January 2, Musk tweeted “Free Tommy Robinson!” The world’s richest man went on to promote a video […]
Democrats will spend the next four years debating why the party suffered a sweeping defeat last week. Maybe it was inflation, or the culture wars, or Joe Biden’s hubris, or podcasts, that drove voters in every swing state to the Republican presidential nominee. At least one theory, however, can already be put to rest: Elon […]
The newest generation of conspiracy theory influencers are able to move almost effortlessly between far-right and far-left beliefs. Many are openly anti-banking and anti-government, traits of the far-right, while also believing climate change is real and socialism is the key to defeating economic inequality – traits of the far-left. They push a mix of social […]
As the 2024 United States presidential election hurtles toward its conclusion, Donald Trump has brought the question of antisemitism back to the center of the campaign. With his history of courting Jewish voters while simultaneously insulting them, the former President has now been revealed as fixated with the dictator who directed the Holocaust, Adolf Hilter […]
American conspiracist Candace Owens sees the pernicious influence of satanic Jewish pedophiles on international politics everywhere. Any rumor that casts Judaism, Israel or Zionism in a bad light is eagerly seized upon by her. She believes that the history of the Jewish people is wilfully distorted by the mainstream media and established institutions in the […]
The assassination attempt on former president and current candidate Donald Trump sparked conspiracy theories from almost the moment the shots rang out. And in keeping with America’s toxic political polarization, the theories tended to fall across two different narratives, depending on your political persuasion. Claims that the shooting was staged or a hoax circulated among […]
In the minutes and hours after a 20-year-old repeatedly shot at former president Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, social media platforms, message boards, and encrypted chat groups lit up with conspiracies about the shooting. From wild claims that the incident was a “deep state plot” devised by President Joe Biden […]
