Emma-Kate Symons is a Paris-based journalist and columnist who has been published in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, The Financial Review and Reuters. A contributing editor at The New World, she is a regular contributor to French weekly Franc-Tireur and France 24 . Educated at the University of Sydney and Columbia University, Emma-Kate has reported from Europe and the Middle East, as well as from New York, Washington, Manila, Bangkok and Canberra.
It has the distinctive air of 1989. Or as Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad put it: “This is a Berlin Wall moment. Let’s tear this wall down. Then America will be safe without the Islamic Republic.” 1989 was not only a watershed because of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was also the year Ayatollah […]
Discredited Doctor Mehmet Oz is a veteran peddler of medical pseudoscience who promoted hydroxychloroquine as a Covid “cure”. Long close to Donald Trump, and questioned over his close ties to the regime of Turkey’s autocratic leader Recep Erdogan, he repeatedly platformed antivaccine conspiracy theories and theorists such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who is now […]
After years of abuse, ten people have been found guilty of cyber bullying Brigitte Macron. Their claims included outright lies about her gender as well as allegations around the nature of her relationship with her husband, President Emmanuel Macron. But the legal action won't stop there, with the couple also suing the American right-wing influencer […]
Within hours, a sprawling ecosystem of conspiracy theories metastasized across social platforms, pushed by far-left activists, Islamist and jihadi propagandists, and far-right influencers alike. Their political differences collapsed into a single, familiar pattern: blaming Jews - reframed as “Israel,” “Zionists,” or the Mossad - for their own murder. A mass-casualty attack against a Jewish community […]
Candace Owens is doubling down on her refuted claims of a French Plot to kill her - with Israeli help. Conspiracy Watch director Rudy Reichstadt has been interviewed by Euronews about the Candace Owens affair and her latest false allegations that Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron were involved in a plot to assassinate her — with […]
Donald Trump's repeated targeting and threats of criminal charges against billionaire George Soros are again fueling the spread of antisemitic conspiracy theories about the Jewish philanthropist. For decades, Soros, 95, has been the bête noire of conspiracy-minded actors on the far right but also on the far left and among some radical Islamist factions. He […]
As the hunt for fugitive ‘sovereign citizen’ police killer Dezi Freeman continues in Australian bushland, the double murder has highlighted the deadly threat from the globalised far-right conspiracist movement. On August 26, police officers arrived at Freeman’s rural property in Porepunkah to execute a search warrant into child sex allegations. Freeman, 56, opened fire, killing […]
Dan Bongino is a former Fox News host and top-rating far-right podcaster who popularized conspiracy theories about the so-called “Deep State” and the “stolen” 2020 U.S. presidential election. He also encouraged the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots and spent years disputing the facts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures to combat it. Despite his […]
In dramatic scenes on Capitol Hill, Robert F. Kennedy Jr found himself subject to furious questioning by Democrats over his firing of the United States' entire 17-person vaccines expert advisory board and replacing it with a handpicked cabal of some of his favored anti-science conspiracy theorists. But instead of mea culpas during the hearings, Donald […]
It took barely 24 hours following the weekend assassinations of Democratic lawmakers from Minnesota, Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the attempted murders of state Senator John Hoffman and his wife. While the suspected killer was still on the run, a swarm of far-right pro-Trump voices scrambled to spread conspiracies pinning the blame […]
