Tag: Conspiracy Theories
How Civil War History Explains Memestocks
The stocks’ prices crashed and the biggest zealots moved from r/WallStreetBets to a new subreddit, r/Superstonk, and began…
Testify or Pay Up, Judge Tells Alex Jones in Sandy Hook Suit
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has subpoenaed Mr. Jones, who echoed Mr.…
QAnon Cheers Republican Attacks on Jackson. Democrats See a Signal.
That debunked theory held that Satan-worshiping Democrats were trafficking children out of the basement of a Washington restaurant,…
Russia and Far-Right Americans Find Common Ground With Ukraine War
When Victoria Nuland, an under secretary of state, was questioned in the Senate this month over whether Ukraine…
‘I’ll Stand on the Side of Russia’: Pro-Putin Sentiment Spreads Online
On a podcast on Wednesday, Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s former adviser, also praised Mr. Putin as “anti-woke.”…
Qanon in America: 41 Million Believe in the Conspiracy Theory, a Survey Finds
Two decades ago, Wikipedia arrived on the scene as a quirky online project that aimed to crowdsource and…
Fed Up With Google, Conspiracy Theorists Turn to DuckDuckGo
Free the Will PatriotsForwarded from Silence Dogood, MBA I just started using DuckDuckGo today, and needless to say…
How They Did It: Sandy Hook Families Savor Long-Awaited Legal Wins
The image stopped him cold. Josh Koskoff, a Connecticut lawyer, was scanning crime scene photos of the 2012…
Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints
“Open your eyes,” the online post began, claiming, “Many in our govt worship Satan.”That warning, published on a…
Fringe Scheme to Reverse 2020 Election Splits Wisconsin G.O.P.
MADISON, Wis. — First, Wisconsin Republicans ordered an audit of the 2020 election. Then they passed a raft…
Peter Thiel, the Right’s Would-Be Kingmaker
The wine flowed. Donald Trump Jr. mingled with the guests. And Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire and host…
No, athletes are not dying from Covid-19 vaccines.
In a 2015 study of players in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, researchers showed that risks varied by…