The 21st Century Wire is an American conspiracy website founded by Patrick Henningsen in 2014. It presents itself as a media outlet with a vocation to ‘educate [and] promote learning about geopolitical and social issues’. 21st Century Wire for example proposed in August 2015 an interview with David Icke [archive], whose career has been centered […]
The term 'active measures' (aktivinyye meropriatia in Russian) refers to strategies or techniques – "open" or secret – implemented by the Kremlin to influence foreign public opinion and actions. The measures include disinformation as well as infiltration or manipulation of youth organizations or trade unions, and the use of agents of influence and foreign pro-Russian […]
Anti-Zionism is usually accompanied by a refusal to consider there is such a thing as a Jewish people with the right to freely choose its destiny within the framework of a sovereign nation-state. Portraying Zionism in a negative light, such as by likening it to a type of racism (as illustrated in a 1975 United […]
The misnamed flat Earth ‘theory’ is a denial of scientific proof that the Earth is round. It is based on the belief of a widespread global conspiracy involving governments and space agencies worldwide, with the goal of convincing humanity that the Earth is actually shaped like a disc. Research suggests that YouTube has been key […]
Joseph Mercola (1954 - ) is an American osteopath who is an advocate of so-called “alternative” medicine. Created in 1998, Mercola.com is one of the most popular alternative health platforms in the world and the flagship of a vast digital empire of disinformation. It features anti-vaccination and pseudo-scientific content as well as the promotion of […]
Gordon Duff is editor-in-chief of Veterans Today, a far-right American website that hosts Holocaust denial content and specialises in the dissemination of "anti-Zionist" conspiracy theories. He is a veteran who served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Duff sees the hand of Israel and its secret services behind most contemporary tragedies. In his […]
New Eastern Outlook (NEO) is an English-language Russian conspiracy site that describes itself as offering "unbiased expert opinions" on news ranging "from Japan to the remote coast of Africa". According to Newsguard, NEO is controlled by the Russian Academy of Sciences, known for publishing false information about the coronavirus pandemic and Covid-19 vaccines developed in […]
He started promoting Holocaust denial ideas and spreading conspiracy theories in the 1990s. In 2005 Fetzer co-founded the Scholars for 9/11 Truth movement. He contributes to the antisemitic American website Veterans Today and regularly appears as a commentator for the Iranian channel Press TV. Fetzer ascribes to the theory that Mossad and the United States […]
Advocates of this theory like Sungenis, insist that the sun revolves around the Earth and not the other way around. On November 6, 2010, Sungenis organized a conference in South Bend (Indiana) with the same title as one of the books he had co-edited a few years earlier with Robert Bennett: Galileo Was Wrong, The […]
Jack Posobiec (1985 - ) is a prominent figure on the American Alt-Right who is influential across social media platforms and counts millions of followers. In 2018, he was employed by the television channel One America News Network (OANN), where he propagated multiple false and conspiracy information regarding "Pizzagate", the MacronLeaks and the death of […]
