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On Tuesday, Twitter owner Elon Musk once more took to his social media network to complain about inaccuracies in mainstream media coverage — while trumpeting the site as a more reliable source of information. “News orgs like to control the narrative [and] hate being corrected, but at least people know …

When Alex Jones picked up a call from Tucker Carlson’s number on Wednesday night, the conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder had what he would later call “one of the most bizarre” events of his life. “I was thinking we could do a show together where we’re topless and we suck …

The sun ain’t what it used to be. That’s what a weird contingent of amateur astronomers believes, anyway. The idea has swirled around the internet for years, and this week got another endorsement from U.K. columnist Jacqui Deevoy, who shared a picture of the star at the center of our …

David Koresh was a man ahead of his time. After the calamitous 1993 fire at Waco, Texas, which saw 76 of Koresh’s followers killed after a long FBI siege, the cult leader turned from a freak and a nobody to a saint of the far right, which saw the tragedy …

Fighting to survive in the crowded ecosystem of far-right social media companies, the pro-Trump platform Gettr has in recent weeks held high-level deliberations on the oddest of business pivots: remaking the site to add an online clearinghouse for human sperm. But it’s not just any sperm. The proposal would see …

Woody Harrelson has always harbored some, well, strange views. The Oscar-nominated actor, who first won over audiences on Cheers, is a 9/11 truther who’s shared a number of conspiracy theories during the Covid pandemic. In April 2020, Harrelson posted a gonzo article tying the supposed “negative effects of 5G” to …

The Dallas Mavericks have a problem. They have a star player in Luka Dončić, a generational talent who can handle, score, pass, boards OK, has an eerie step-back three-point shot, good size, the exact sort of dude you want on your team. Aside from Luka, they are packing a bunch …

For luxury fashion house Balenciaga, a seemingly run-of-the-mill photoshoot designed to sell a collection of holiday-themed tchotchkes has snowballed into an internet frenzy —which now includes accusations of a deep-seated pedophilia conspiracy, a Kardashian statement, and a $25 million lawsuit. So, how did we get here? What Was in the …

Twitter has stopped enforcing its Covid misinformation policy, designed to prevent the spread of harmful false narratives about the pandemic. This has increased simmering concerns that the platform, already an echo chamber for many users, could become a misinformation super-spreader.Users are already testing the waters to see what kind of …

In its best moments, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s corny, enjoyable Something in the Dirt is as noisy, spooky, and sense-tingling as a piece of haunted house gothic. Only it’s not set in a haunted house. It’s set in a pair of modest apartments in Laurel Canyon. Helicopters and planes …