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Fast Forward Profane 14-Year-Old YouTuber Spreads Hate And Far-Right Conspiracy Theories
A 14-year-old girl is the newest face of hate speech and conspiracy theories on YouTube. A Bay Area high school freshman who goes by “Soph” on the platform has amassed more than 800,000 followers with videos making racist, Islamophobic and homophobic comments, BuzzFeed News reported. She also spreads conspiracy theories about George Soros, the Jewish…
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Fast Forward Two Jewish Conspiracy Theorists Go After Pete Buttigieg
Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is the target of a smear being promoted by two self-styled “conservative activists” who recently tried to frame special counsel Robert Mueller, and one of whom came to national prominence by perpetuating Seth Rich conspiracy theories. Player 1 is Jack Burkman, a Republican lobbyist who was briefly allied with the parents…
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News 5 More Surreal, Scary Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories — After Notre Dame Fire
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….
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Fast Forward Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theorist Apologizes To Family Of Seth Rich
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…
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Fast Forward U.S. Agency Sorry For Calling Soros ‘Non-Practicing Jew Of Flexible Morals’
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…
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News The Bizarro Plot To Smear Robert Mueller Has Some Crazy Jewish Angles
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…
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Fast Forward Conservative Newspaper Apologizes For Publishing Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory
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…
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Fast Forward Twitter Joins Other Tech Titans In Banning Alex Jones
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…
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