Conspiracy theorists were quick to blame Jews and Muslims for the shocking fire that enveloped the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday, despite French police finding it to be an accident. It’s a pretty common stream of events: The two cultures have somehow managed to be linked to a slew of tragedies and events….
A pro-Trump conspiracy theorist who had amplified the conspiracy theories around the murder of Seth Rich, the Jewish Democratic National Committee staffer, apologized to Rich’s family, RollingStone.com reported. On Monday, the website InfoWars.com, which is run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, retracted a column by one of its “correspondents,” Jeremy Corsi, and issued a…
The head of a U.S. government agency apologized to financier George Soros and his foundation after airing a program that upheld conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic tropes, the Washington Post reported. John Lansing, chief executive and director of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an agency that shares news abroad, sent letters to Soros and Open…
A pro-Trump Jewish hedge fund prodigy and a Seth Rich conspiracy theorist tried to frame special counsel Robert Mueller — yes, that Robert Mueller — for supposed sexual harassment. They hatched a plot that wound up unraveling badly after it was uncovered by a Twitter-famous set of twins and was pitched to star journalist Ronan…
A conservative newspaper issued a retraction and apology to the brother of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered in July 2016 and became the subject of conspiracy theories, Vox reported. A column in The Washington Times in March titled “More cover-up questions: The curious murder of Seth Rich poses questions that…
After a brief suspension from Twitter, notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been permanently banned from the social media platform, Gizmodo reported. Twitter banned both Jones’ account and that of his website Infowars, citing abusive behavior. His Twitter page had nearly 900,000 followers, and Infowars had 430,000. Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from…
One of the main rules of the Internet is: if you can think of it, it probably exists. This is indeed the case when it comes to the melting pot of conspiracy theories, Israel and animals. In fact, Israeli animal-related conspiracy theories abound on certain darker corners of the web. I took a foray into…
Alex Jones, the country’s leading internet conspiracist, is teaming up with New York Times bestselling author Neil Strauss on a book about the “war for the future,” including a sinister plot to brainwash the masses and make them docile. It’s a theme that would be familiar to fans of Jones, whose broadcasts are filled with…
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