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 […]
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 the help of Israel. The wife of the French President and her husband have been relentlessly targeted by the hateful […]
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 […]
On November 13, 2015, France was struck by the deadliest terrorist attack in its history. In the heart of Paris, Islamist suicide attackers affiliated with the Islamic State massacred 90 people at the Bataclan concert hall and killed 130 in total during a rampage across the capital’s cafés and streets. The facts of the attacks […]
This week in Paris, ten people went on trial for cyber-bullying Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, by spreading a conspiracy theory as grotesque as it was absurd. For the most serious offenses, prosecutors sought suspended sentences ranging from three to twelve months. Yet Brigitte Macron herself has, in a sense, been […]
In early September 2025, Sarah Wilkinson, a British activist, announced that she would join the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza — billed in her own words as “The Largest Civilian Humanitarian Mission In HISTORY To Break The Siege On Gaza”. Framed by sympathetic outlets as a “human rights activist,” Wilkinson herself insisted in a […]
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 […]
Ali Dawah (born Erdi Kiliç) has built one of the largest platforms in the radical Islamist Sunni da‘wa proselytization scene. The British-Kurdish YouTuber, active since 2013, commands over 1.3 million subscribers and hundreds of millions of views. His combined social media platforms including YouTube, Instagram and others bring him close to 1.8 million followers. From […]
The shooting death of conservative media figure Charlie Kirk in Utah on September 10th sparked the usual deluge of conspiracy theories about who “really” did it and why. Within minutes, and with absolutely no supporting evidence, social media was flooded with claims that Kirk had been shot dead by a leftist transgender rights advocate, had […]
