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Was a 'My Little Pony' Animator Arrested for Possession of Child Pornography Part of '#PedoGate'?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Aug. 14, 2018 An animator for the children's cartoon has been sentenced to prison for possessing child pornogr ...
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Did Queen Elizabeth Wear a Brooch Gifted by President Obama While Meeting President Trump?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
July 19, 2018 Theories about the symbolism behind the monarch's fashion choices are founded on assumptions tha ...
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Tugboat in Honolulu.

Did FEMA Use Barges to Incarcerate People Fleeing a Volcano in Hawaii?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
June 26, 2018 A conspiracy theorist web site once again published groundless, scaremongering claims about the ...
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Anthony Bourdain.

Was Anthony Bourdain Killed by Clinton Operatives?

Written by:
David Emery
June 11, 2018 Spurious claims linking the celebrity chef's death to Hillary Clinton were published on a web si ...
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Crime scene tape.

Was a Child's Skull Found at an Alleged Sex-Trafficking Bunker Area in Tucson?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
June 8, 2018 Authorities have determined a skull found roughly 20 miles from an abandoned homeless camp belon ...
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Crime scene tape.

Did a Veteran Group Discover a 'Disturbing Child Trafficking Bunker' in Tucson?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
June 5, 2018 Police investigated and concluded the site is actually an abandoned homeless camp.
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Fox News broadcast truck.

That Time Fox News Retracted Their Story Linking Seth Rich's Murder to Leaked E-mails

Written by:
David Emery
June 1, 2018 A year after retracting the conspiracy-tainted story and vowing to investigate the matter furthe ...
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Roger Stone.

Did a Shadowy Conspiracy Involve 'Purging' the Internet of Records Relating to Lisa Barsoomian?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
April 16, 2018 A conspiracy theory fomented by Roger Stone gets even basic facts wrong.
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Tattered Syrian Arab Republic flag.

Disinformation and Conspiracy Trolling in the Wake of the Syrian Chemical Attack

Written by:
Bethania Palma
April 12, 2018 Kremlin propaganda led to questions and charges that an attack in the city of Douma that killed ...
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Aisle view of commercial airline interior with passengers.

Was Flight MH370 Found with an Eerie Black Box Recording Saying: “SOS, They Are Not Human”?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
March 19, 2018 An Internet hoax links missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 with — what else? — aliens.
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A pair of handcuffs on a keyboard.

Conspiracy Theorists Arrested for Harassing Sutherland Springs Church Have Been Released

Written by:
Bethania Palma
March 7, 2018 Robert Ussery and Jodi Mann have been stalking mass shooting victims and survivors for months.
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First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs

Conspiracy Theorists Arrested After Harassing Sutherland Springs Pastor

Written by:
Bethania Palma
March 6, 2018 The pair have spent months stalking families of victims and their communities in a failed attemp ...
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Did a First Responder Say He Was Told to 'Stand Down' in Parkland?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
March 3, 2018 A headline on the conspiracy blog Infowars.com mischaracterizes a tweet by a legitimate news rep ...
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Missouri GOP Blames George Soros for Governor's Indictment

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Feb. 23, 2018 George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist and constant target of right-wing conspiracy theories ...
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Charlie Kelly, conspiracy theorist.

Conspiracy Theories About Mass and School Shootings, Explained

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Feb. 21, 2018 Why do the same sets of shooting conspiracy theories and tropes appear every time there is a hor ...
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3D illustration of UFO alien ship in flight

Did a Former Canadian Official Say the Illuminati Are Real—And Hiding Alien Stuff?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Feb. 14, 2018 Canada's former minister of defense has long espoused conspiracy theories.
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Was a Russian Nuclear Executive Killed in a Plane Crash to Cover Up Clinton Corruption?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Feb. 12, 2018 Conspiracy theorists falsely linked a deadly Moscow plane crash to Uranium One, a debunked Hilla ...
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Has an Indictment Been Issued in the Uranium One Investigation?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Jan. 24, 2018 There's no credible evidence linking a January 2018 indictment with a persistent Clinton conspir ...
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Gavel with British flag background.

Does the 'Bar' in 'Bar Exam' Denote a Secret Lawyers' Conspiracy?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Jan. 23, 2018 A "sovereign citizen" conspiracy theory about the licensing of lawyers is riddled with bad logic ...
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Mysterious man making a silence gesture while standing out from the crowd

2017's Biggest Conspiracy Theories

Written by:
Vinny Green
Dec. 29, 2017 A sampler of the most widespread rumors and hoaxes that characterized the year in which the frin ...
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