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 […]
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 […]
‘Nebulous’. ‘Far right’. ‘Conspiracist and anti-vax’. ‘Radical far left’: almost every label has been applied to the ‘Bloquons tout !’ (‘Let’s Block Everything!’, i.e. ‘Bring France to a Standstill!’) movement since it first emerged in early July in Telegram groups. So what exactly is it? Clearly, the reality of the movement is disparate, colorful, and […]
November 2023, halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. A few weeks after the October 7 attacks, Keti Shitrit – a Likud MP, the party of Benjamin Netanyahu – appears live on television. Wearing a smart purple suit with matching jewelry and immaculate manicure, the Israeli politician chooses her words carefully. Calm but firm, she declares: […]
When the most notable victim of MAGA-approved conspiracy merchant Candace Owens announced a decision to fight back against her bullying, the response came in typical style. “Today I have been sued by the First Lady-Man of France,” announced a gleeful Owens, an unrepentant peddler of anti-women, gay and transgender slanders as well as Holocaust denial, […]
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 […]
