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Russia's wild theories about secret bio-labs and 'crisis actors' in Ukraine are crafted to appeal to US conspiracists, experts say
Russia is refining its disinformation playbook by pushing conspiracy theories that the victims of a…
Tom Porter
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The Washington Post corrected an article that described COVID-19 emerging from a Wuhan lab as a 'conspiracy theory' and 'debunked'
The theory that the coronavirus escaped a Wuhan lab was initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory,…
Tom Porter
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A Utah man accused of peddling silver as a COVID-19 cure led the feds on a 3-year manhunt and spammed the court with filings full of conspiracy theories
Prosecutors say Gordon Pedersen marketed silver as a COVID-19 cure and fraudulently claimed to be a…
Michelle Mark
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What is the future of QAnon? What the return of 'Q' means for QAnon and the far-right conspiracy movement.
The anonymous leader of QAnon began posting new messages after a year and a half absence, sparking …
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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A debunked conspiracy theory about US bio-weapons laboratories in Ukraine was seized on by Russian and Chinese media outlets
An article on the Infowars website claimed the US operates biological weapons laboratories "in many…
Cheryl Teh
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Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro is promoting an election fraud board game
"Want to know how the Democrats stole the 2020 election? Play the game," Navarro says in a promotio…
Morgan Keith
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'False flag' conspiracies about the Uvalde and Buffalo mass shootings are already big on the far-right
"False flag" accusations after mass shootings have increased in recent years and become less centra…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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Monkeypox conspiracies are far-right politicians and influencers latest misinformation campaign
A number of baseless conspiracy theories about the monkeypox virus have spread on social media, sme…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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A baseless conspiracy theory is brewing on China's Twitter, with social media users accusing the US of creating and leaking the monkeypox virus
People on China's Twitter-like Weibo posited, without evidence, that a US-linked terrorist group wa…
Cheryl Teh
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China spent years angrily trying to shut down the theory that COVID-19 came from its labs. It failed.
The FBI's director, Christopher Wray, has added his support to the theory that COVID-19 originated …
Tom Porter
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China is spreading conspiracy theories that the coronavirus was created in an American lab and that a US-created vaccine is killing the elderly
The disinformation push comes as a team of WHO scientists begin a study into the origins of the vir…
Julie Gerstein
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Hundreds of QAnon supporters gathered in Dallas because they believed JFK Jr was going to appear and announce that he wasn't dead
Supporters of QAnon, the online conspiracy theory movement, baselessly believe that John F Kennedy …
Tom Porter
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Conspiracy theorists are flooding Twitter with misleading tweets about Bill Gates, population growth, and the COVID-19 vaccine
Baseless conspiracy theories about Bill Gates, depopulation, and the COVID-19 vaccine are spreading…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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Here's an idea why Secretary of State Pompeo keeps spreading the conspiracy theory that coronavirus escaped from a Chinese lab
GOP China hawks know that if you want Trump to internalize something, make it a Fox News talking po…
Linette Lopez
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Trump claims he has evidence the coronavirus originated in a Wuhan lab but that he's 'not allowed to tell' anyone what it is
Multiple intelligence officials have said there is no evidence so far to back up the theory that th…
Sonam Sheth
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Far-right lures recruits using COVID-19 conspiracy theories, alongside misogyny, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia, says study
A study by the London-based Institute of Strategic Dialogue, says far-right groups have mobilized e…
Bethany Dawson
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Michael Flynn doubles down on conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was created by George Soros, Bill Gates, and WHO to steal the 2020 election from Trump
Trump's former security advisor Michael Flynn told Alex Jones' Infowars that COVID-19 was created t…
Bethany Dawson
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Google isn't blocking searches for the 'lab leak' theory as the coronavirus' origin is being investigated, but it prioritizes 'authoritative' results to avoid leading users to misinformation
Google exec David Feinberg said the tech giant does not intend to lead people "down pathways that w…
Allana Akhtar
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Trump demands China pay $10 trillion of 'reparations' to US for damage caused by COVID-19
Former President Donald Trump demanded that China pay $10 trillion in "reparations" to the US durin…
Joshua Zitser
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Nearly a third of Americans believe in coronavirus conspiracy theories. Science explains why people tend to believe them more in times of crisis.
Bill Gates recently refuted a popular conspiracy theory that says that he's using the coronavirus v…