Tag Archives: conspiracy-theories

O n the morning of March 19, 2000, Florian Reither learned what it felt like to scrape the sky. He’d just stepped out of the 91st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center through a hollowed-out window. Now, as Sunday’s dawn cracked, Reither — dressed in a …

2025 was going to be Karate Man’s year. It’s January 7 and Dan Bongino had some advice for the listeners of his self-titled radio show. He leads with news that Facebook is caving in to the incoming Trump Administration and eliminating its fact checkers. Bongino is hyped — he is …

Lee Zeldin, the Trump-appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, on Thursday attempted to walk a fine line between placating conspiracy theorists and dispelling misinformation. Unfortunately, he seems to have left many people confused as to the agency’s actual policies and actions. “Americans have questions about geoengineering and contrails,” Zeldin …

For years now, virtually every national tragedy — natural or manmade — is accompanied by a barrage of right-wing conspiracy theories. The deadly and devastating floods that ravaged central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend are no different. The flash floods that killed over 100 people, including at least …

After Hurricane Helene ripped through North Carolina, Francesca got to work. As an employee for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, she was deployed to the state for a month to coordinate aid for impacted residents, which included feeding families and sharing information at community events. From the start, her work …

When Errol Morris was a graduate student in philosophy at University of California Berkeley, he made a “pilgrimage” to the California Medical Facility prison in Vacaville. Interested in insanity pleas and murder, the future Oscar-winning documentarian was there to interview the serial killer Ed Kemper. But while at the CMF, …

For the past month, residents of the northeast and mid-Atlantic U.S. have made thousands of reports and social media posts about supposed sightings of suspicious drones and unidentified aerial objects at night. And because government agencies have not provided an explanation as sensational as people believe their photo and video …

In the years since the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Donald Trump never once backed down from the lie that caused it: That the 2020 election had been stolen from him, and Joe Biden‘s presidency was illegitimate. Running a comeback campaign to secure a second term in 2024, he primed his …

It’s Sunday afternoon near the Washington Monument and the clouds overhead are suitably dark and impenetrable. All your friends are here. The accidentally Russia-funded Tim Pool slips into a VIP tent while Russell Brand shows off his chest hair to his partner Jordan Peterson, the victor in many imagined battles …

In the four years since his 2020 election loss, Donald Trump has continued to bolster false claims that widespread election fraud was the cause of his demise. Now, as early and mail-in voting opens up in several states that will help decide the 2024 election, the former president is ramping …