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Conspiracy Theories
conspiracy theories
Jan. 3, 2018
Ellen DeGeneres Tells Eric Trump She’s Not Part of the ‘Deep State’ “I’m honored that you think I’m powerful enough to be part of a government conspiracy.”
By Tolly Wright
conspiracy theories
Jan. 3, 2018
Eric Trump Suggests Ellen DeGeneres Is Part of the ‘Deep State’ In which she joins forces with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
By Amanda Arnold
science of us
Dec. 21, 2017
By Katie Heaney
beautiful moments
Dec. 20, 2017
By Gabriella Paiella
The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse A new conspiracy theory called “The Storm” has taken the grimiest parts of the internet by, well, storm.
By Paris Martineau
A Gray State Is a Gripping, Almost Unbearably Dark WatchThe Werner Herzog–produced doc investigates the destructive power of conspiracy, violence, and Hollywood mythmaking.
By Emily Yoshida
last night on late night
Oct. 24, 2017
By Halle Kiefer
10 Conspiracy Theories About the World’s Most Infamous Skin Cream La Mer is the most mysterious beauty product in history, and it has the crazy rumors to prove it.
By Kathleen Hou
conspiracy theories
Aug. 21, 2017
By Dee Lockett
White House Aides: A Cabal of Islamists, Marxists, and Bankers Is After Trump The deep state, GOP, and media are in on the conspiracy, according to an NSC memo — which multiple White House officials have defended as correct.
By Eric Levitz
conspiracy theories
Aug. 10, 2017
By Claire Landsbaum
conspiracy theories
July 26, 2017
By Hunter Harris
Trump Lawyer Hints Comey Part of ‘Deep State’ Conspiracy After calling Comey a liar, Trump attorney identifies him with the leakers some Trump fans believe are trying reverse the election.
By Ed Kilgore
‘Is This Even About Seth Rich at All?’ Before he was a murder victim and the subject of politically motivated conspiracy theories, Seth Rich was a real person with a real life.
By Olivia Nuzzi
FBI Raids GOP Consulting Firm, Setting Off (False) Alarms Online The raid is related to a 2013 PAC investigation, the firm’s president says — probably not to Russia or a deep-state coup.
By Adam K. Raymond
conspiracy theories
Apr. 17, 2017
By Tolly Wright
Why Education (Sometimes) Protects People From Conspiracy Theorizing Two new experiments dig into the complicated interplay between education and susceptibility to fake news.
By Jesse Singal
Trump Suggests Obama Always Wanted Obamacare to Collapse in 2017 “That’s the year it was meant to explode, because Obama won’t be here,” the president explained to the House GOP leadership.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Team Dares James Comey to Say Obama Didn’t Wiretap Trump On Monday, the White House suggested that Trump trusts his own misreadings of Breitbart articles over the word of the FBI director.
By Eric Levitz
conspiracy theorists
Feb. 28, 2017
Alex Jones Is a Very Rude Lunch Host In a new Der Spiegel profile, we learn what eating barbecue with Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones looks and sounds like.
By Gabriella Paiella
last night on late night
Feb. 6, 2017
By Tolly Wright
Alex Jones Says He’s Been ‘Offered’ White House Press Credentials The chief nut at Infowars has a relationship with President Trump.
By Adam K. Raymond
A Surprising Number of Democrats Think Pizzagate Is True Twenty four percent of Dems think Hillary Clinton is involved in a satanic child-sex ring, according to a poll.
By Adam K. Raymond
can’t handle the truth
Dec. 14, 2016
What If Starbucks Misspells Everybody’s Name on Purpose? A video that jokes it’s a trick to get free advertising has really struck a nerve.
By Clint Rainey
One Sandy Hook Parent’s Fight Against an ‘Emboldened’ Conspiracy Culture “My hatred for Google and YouTube and Facebook has increased 1,000 percent,” says Sandy Hook parent Lenny Pozner.
By Reeves Wiedeman
To Understand Pizzagate, It Helps to Understand Cults Just about anyone can, under the right circumstances, start believing some crazy and potentially dangerous stuff.
By Jesse Singal
conspiracy theories
Dec. 13, 2016
Low-Flying Military Aircraft Spooks Manhattan The New York National Guard is claiming that the flight was part of a training exercise.
By Charley Lanyon
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Pizzagate? “This is a problem that’s not going to be solved, probably, by the law,” one expert says.
By Sam Stecklow
Bristol Palin Is Pregnant Again The former abstinence speaker is expecting her third child.
By Allie Jones
Sandy Hook Truther Arrested for Threatening Parent of Shooting Victim Lucy Richards, 57, allegedly wrote: “you gonna die, death is coming to you real soon.”
By Jen Kirby
conspiracy theories
Dec. 4, 2016
Gunman Detained at D.C. Pizzeria Was Investigating Clinton Conspiracy Theory The incident has heightened fears that an absurd fake-news story may now lead to real-world danger.
By Charley Lanyon
conspiracy theories
Nov. 1, 2016
The Far Right Thinks Chobani Is Trying to ‘Drown the U.S. in Muslims’ The founder’s support for refugees has the fringe right issuing death threats.
By Clint Rainey
last night on late night
Nov. 1, 2016
By Dee Lockett
The North Dakota crash was an inside job
Oct. 27, 2016
It’s So Easy to Get People to Believe in Conspiracy Theories a Little Why won’t the government tell us what really happened with the North Dakota Crash? What gives them the right to hide the truth from us?
By Jesse Singal
The Internet’s Conservative Fever Swamps Aren’t Going Away, So We Need to Adapt It’s probably time for everyone to give up on the idea that any level of denunciation or fact-checking can counter online gonzo media.
By Jesse Singal
vulture cover story
Oct. 23, 2016
The 70 Greatest Conspiracy Theories in Pop-Culture History From “Paul is dead” to “Stevie Wonder isn’t blind,” with a lot of Illuminati in between.
By Adam K. Raymond
‘Citizen Journalism’ Is a Catastrophe Right Now, and It’ll Only Get Worse In theory, the internet could be a great place for crowdsourced journalism, analysis, and debunking. In theory.
By Jesse Singal
conspiracy theories
Oct. 10, 2016
By Charley Lanyon
conspiracy theories
Oct. 6, 2016
By Jordan Crucchiola
kim kardashian robbery
Oct. 3, 2016
By Lisa Ryan
conspiracy theories
Oct. 3, 2016
Is Marla Maples the Trump Tax Return Leaker? It’s a juicy theory, and there are some clues that might back it up.
By Margaret Hartmann
Lenny Pozner Believed in Conspiracy Theories. Until His Son’s Death Became One. Just as a father was mourning his child killed at Sandy Hook, strangers were saying he’d never lived at all.
By Reeves Wiedeman
last night on late night
Aug. 23, 2016
By Tolly Wright
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