Republican efforts to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack are hardly new, but more than five years after the insurrectionist assault on the U.S. Capitol, the GOP crusade is taking on new and unsettling dimensions. The party’s rhetoric, predictably, continues to veer in mind-numbing directions. Republican Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, […]
In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, influencers, pundits, and random posters lit up social media platforms like X, Bluesky, and Instagram with conspiracy theories about the attack and the alleged shooter. Both left- and right-wing accounts claimed, without evidence, that the attack was staged. President […]
Conspiracy thinking in Belgium is often dismissed as a marginal phenomenon, the preserve of a few eccentrics on social media. But a new survey by the Institut Jonathas invites a reassessment of that narrative. In the Brussels-Capital Region, 50 per cent of respondents believe that the pharmaceutical industry and governments are lying about the harmful […]
Controversial US podcaster Tucker Carlson has described Oswald Mosley, the pro-Hitler leader of Britain’s short-lived fascist party during the Second World War, as one of the country’s “great war heroes”. Carlson further claimed this week that Mosley’s “only crime was being the opposition” to Winston Churchill, and that was why he was arrested. Churchill, according […]
When Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned today in protest of the Iran war, he blamed everyone except the person who launched it. In his resignation letter, addressed to President Trump, Kent portrays the president as a passive figure manipulated by others—“high-ranking Israeli officials” and “influential members of the American media”—rather […]
On Thursday 29 January, comedian Bassem Youssef appeared as a guest on the show of antisemitic ideologue and professional disinformation entrepreneur and Brigitte Macron defamer Candace Owens. Far from distancing himself from his host’s wild claims—whose recent delirious excesses include allegations of the involvement of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron and the French military in a […]
President Trump is bringing back the most bizarre conspiracy theory for why he lost the 2020 election. It’s ItalyGate, which pins his loss to Joe Biden that year on an elaborate conspiracy in which Barack Obama and China teamed up to use Italian military satellites to zap the election away from him. Trump boosted the […]
Over half a century since Neil Armstrong’s giant leap for mankind, when the Apollo 11 astronauts became the first humans to land on the Moon, conspiracy theories about the Apollo missions are plentiful. They're fuelled by a range of ‘evidence’ that, in their proponents’ view, proves we never landed on the Moon. Yet the questions […]
Taking to X to make an "urgent" statement, US conservative influencer and podcaster Candace Owens alleged that French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte had "paid" for her assassination. Her X post from 22 November has garnered more than 40 million views. Although internet users have gone wild for her claims, Owens — who […]
ere we go … again. Another documentary film about how disclosure of alien contact is imminent. It’s a claim I’ve been hearing for over three decades, albeit this one is of a higher quality than the dozens of similar such documentaries available on Amazon Prime (and hundreds more on YouTube). With The Age of Disclosure, […]
