As the global movement to cancel Ed Sheeran snowballs, after stadium owner Robert Kraft informed the rock star that he would no longer allow American rapper Macklemore to appear as a support act, the affair has taken a more sinister turn. The argument over whether Macklemore should have been dropped from Sheeran's US tour has […]
Antisemitic conspiracy theories blaming Jews and Israel for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have resurfaced on social media ahead of the day’s 25th anniversary. CyberWell, an Israeli non-governmental organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism online, recently identified numerous posts across Meta, Reddit, TikTok, and X/Twitter claiming Jews had planned 9/11, knew the attacks were coming, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In recent weeks, Carrie Prejean Boller, the former Miss California who emerged as an anti-LGBTQ+ activist and recent convert to Catholicism, has thrust herself into the spotlight with antisemitic allegations linking global injustices to an opaque network of influence. Known for her reactionary positions on faith, politics, and social issues, Prejean Boller has faced widespread […]
On Thursday 29 January, comedian Bassem Youssef appeared as a guest on the show of antisemitic ideologue and professional disinformation entrepreneur and Brigitte Macron defamer Candace Owens. Far from distancing himself from his host’s wild claims—whose recent delirious excesses include allegations of the involvement of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron and the French military in a […]
