'Pizzagate' refers to a conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton is secretly involved in a pedophile network whose crime hub is a Washington pizzeria, the Comet Ping Pong. This theory, circulating among the pro-Trump American conspiracy far-right, is based on a distorted reading of Democratic Party emails. John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, would have coded […]
America's Frontline Doctors is an anti-vaxxer, pro-hydroxychloroquine collective of medical practitioners that emerged during the Covid-19 crisis. It is closely tied to the conservative American Tea Party Patriots Action organization. The group gained notoriety in July 2020, when the far-right website Breitbart posted a live video featuring a group of doctors dressed in white coats […]
John Pilger (1939-2023) was an Australian journalist who gained notoriety through his writings and public comments on conflicts and war zones in countries including Venezuela, Ukraine and Syria. The veteran reporter first earned a reputation and garnered awards in the 1960s and 1970s as an independent journalist covering the Vietnam war, Cambodia under the Khmer […]
Sovereign Citizens emerged in the United States in the 1970s, denying the legitimacy of the federal government and the jurisdiction of the courts in cases involving its followers. The movement has enjoyed a resurgence since the COVID-19 pandemic. Sovereign Citizens' ideology has been invoked by multiple rioters convicted in the January 6, 2021 attacks on […]
The founder of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which holds a financial endowment of nearly $67 billion, Bill Gates has been the subject of conspiracy theories for many years. The philanthropist is accused of covertly supporting the rise of a globalist dictatorship, orchestrating plans for extensive electronic surveillance, and engaging in a […]
Tucker Carlson (1969 - ) is an American far right columnist and television host. He was a star presenter on cable news channel Fox News, hosting the top-rated Tucker Carlson Tonight show from 2017 until his dismissal in 2023. At its height Carlson's nightly show attracted more than 3 million viewers daily. Carlson is also […]
InfoWars (infowars.com) is a highly influential and popular American conspiracy media platform. Launched by Alex Jones in 1999, the extreme right site receives more than 10 million visits per month (SimilarWeb data) and generates approximately several tens of millions of dollars of income per year. Sometimes described as a kind of TV shopping show specialized […]
‘QAnon’ ('Anon' for anonymous) is the name given to a pro-Trump conspiracy and ‘sectarian’ phenomenon that appeared in October 2017 on the forums 4chan and 8chan (since renamed 8kun). Its followers believe in the existence of a satanist pedophile criminal organization (the ‘Cabal’) involving prominent figures from the Democratic Party as well as the Clintons, […]
The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people from Central Asia who settled in the Caucasus between the 6th and 13th centuries. Since the 19th century, intellectuals like Ernest Renan, Arthur Koestler or Shlomo Sand have presented the Khazars as the distant ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. This contested theory, which […]
The Trilateral Commission was created in 1973 by American businessman David Rockefeller (1915-2017) as a forum for discussion among decision-makers from North America, the European Union and Japan (hence the name "Trilateral"). According to its website, the Trilateral Commission is a non-governmental organization that brings together thought leaders from across sectors: business, political, academia, the […]
