RFK Jr. Has Packed an Autism Panel With Cranks and Conspiracy Theorists
US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filled an autism committee with friends, associates,…
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The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing
The popularity of these conspiracies may also be on the rise in right-wing spaces. Some…
Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats
Over 100 people have now been confirmed to have lost their lives in the flash…
Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists
A week after the inauguration, US senator Rand Paul of Kentucky issued a flurry of…
A Q&A about the ‘conspiracy’ of overconsumption
The last few weeks of the year are always a special time — for shopping. According…
Conspiracy theorists may not really believe their outlandish ideas
An anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square, London, in August 2020Richard Baker/Getty Images Many people who…
Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists their view might be wrong
Disinformation fuels conspiracy theories that can be hard to dismantleSkorzewiak/Shutterstock Large language model chatbots like…
Backlash builds after Elon Musk called an antisemitic conspiracy theory the ‘actual truth’
Elon Musk has encouraged extremists and white supremacists throughout his yearlong tenure as the owner…
IBM pulls ads from X / Twitter as Elon Musk promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy
Just hours after Elon Musk endorsed an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on Wednesday night, a new…
Here’s the Proof There’s No Government Alien Conspiracy Around Roswell
Across the 75 years since something—something—crashed outside Roswell in early July 1947, the very name…