On Friday, August 28, Mike Borowski hosted Thomas Guénolé on the French conspiracy channel Géopolitique Profonde (GPTV) for an almost three-hour, supposedly “manly” discussion with Alain Soral. The subject: the “antisemitic theses” of the antisemitic polemicist. Both men resorted to arguments from authority, each drawing on his own stock of references. Whenever Soral made one […]
Experts in antisemitism, online hate and related conspiracy theories who gathered in New York to stress test leading Artificial Intelligence systems and platforms found it did not take much to break their safety guardrails. By posing as an "objective" researcher or adopting a different identity, testers were able to induce chatbots to produce inconsistent, questionable […]
In a recent essay published in The Free Press, British historian Niall Ferguson and the AI researcher John-Clark Levin examine the reasons behind the resurgence of Holocaust denial in the age of social media and artificial intelligence. Their argument is deliberately provocative: historians have lost the battle. Although our knowledge of the Holocaust has never […]
Roger Avary made his name as co-writer, alongside Quentin Tarantino, of the cult film Pulp Fiction. Now he has resurfaced as the apostle of a fictional belief system that, in the hierarchy of conspiracy theories, ranks alongside Flat Earthism. Appearing a few weeks ago on Joe Rogan's podcast—one of the most listened-to shows in the […]
The ‘TheoBros’ are a loose but influential American subculture of young, digitally fluent men drawn to aggressive masculinist Christian nationalism - and antisemitic, racist and women-hating conspiracy theories. Emerging from ultra-conservative protestant Reformed church circles in the 2010s, the self-styled ‘Theobros’ champion ‘biblical masculinity’, postmillennial optimism, and a rejection of liberal democracy, feminism, and religious […]
“LOL, what a plot twist that SPLC was funding the KKK… as Democrats always have. Another “conspiracy theory” coming true in real time.” It was with this gleeful message, posted on X, that Donald Trump Jr. reacted to the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), one of the leading American organizations monitoring the […]
The Anti-Zionist America Political Action Committee (AZAPAC) emerged in the summer of 2025, founded by Michael Rectenwald. The former New York University professor, now active in libertarian circles, is close to the radical right. “We’re not like leftist anti-Zionists, calling for ‘from the river to the sea’ and all this nonsense,” he stated in an […]
A recent report by Human Rights Watch accuses Burkina Faso’s armed forces of multiple abuses, particularly against the Fulani, an ethnic group regularly accused of supporting jihadists across West Africa. But President Ibrahim Traoré has a ready-made conspiracy-peddling explanation: a false-flag attack. “That’s what you call perfidy,” he says. “Terrorists come, they carry out massacres […]
Conspiracy thinking in Belgium is often dismissed as a marginal phenomenon, the preserve of a few eccentrics on social media. But a new survey by the Institut Jonathas invites a reassessment of that narrative. In the Brussels-Capital Region, 50 per cent of respondents believe that the pharmaceutical industry and governments are lying about the harmful […]
When Candace Owens uploaded a lengthy interview with Norman G. Finkelstein to her YouTube channel, she presented as a conversation about Israel, the Holocaust, and the upcoming release of his book Gaza’s Gravediggers. The exchange was also distributed in podcast format, further expanding its reach. But this was not a confidential academic debate. Owens’ YouTube […]
