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 […]
Many figures whose works formed the basis of modern conspiracism have been usurped by their followers, as conspiracism has become more mainstream and more lucrative. Take British economist and academic Antony C. Sutton who wrote a trilogy of books in the mid 1970’s alleging a vast conspiracy between the United States and the Soviet Union […]
Thousands of demonstrators shot behind closed doors − with multiple reports that more than 16,500 people have been killed — hundreds of thousands injured, hundreds of executions scheduled. The repression unleashed against the Iranian people by the regime of the Mullahs has reached terrifying proportions. Faced with this methodical state violence, Ayatollah Khamenei and his […]
Rejected by historians, scientists and archaeologists but embraced by millions of readers, Erich von Däniken has died at 90. He became one of the most commercially successful purveyors of pseudo-archaeology and paranormal speculation of the late 20th century, reaching the height of his influence in the late 1960s and 1970s. At the peak of his […]
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 […]
The verdict comes from the most powerful figure in the White House after Donald Trump. In Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles — the president’s chief of staff — described Vice President JD Vance as a “conspiracy theorist for a decade.” In the same profile, she labelled White House Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought […]
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 […]
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 […]