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 […]
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 […]
In later life Jean-Jacques Rousseau became convinced that former friends, including Diderot and Voltaire were plotting against him. He accused David Hume, who’d brought him to London to escape persecution in France, of much the same. Rousseau had many real enemies, including both Catholics and the Calvinists, and his books had been burnt in public. […]
The DOJ's release of three million documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation has touched off what could charitably labeled a feeding frenzy. Every journalist, Epstein watcher, conspiracy theorist, and researcher has gobbled them up like koi rising to the surface of a pond, mouths agape as they suck in food pellets. Some of the […]
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, […]
On behalf of the undersigned individuals and organizations who exist to educate about antisemitism, international law, the Holocaust and genocide, and who cumulatively and actively work to enhance the prevention of genocide, we find that the International Association of Genocide Scholars (“IAGS”) resolution fails to accurately apply the law and facts of the war in […]