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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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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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Will UN Peacekeepers Be Deployed on the Streets of Chicago?
Written by:
Bethania Palma
Dec. 19, 2017
There are no plans to put UN Peacekeeper boots on the ground in Chicago.
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Did a CIA Agent Confess to Killing Bob Marley?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Dec. 3, 2017
A disreputable web site capitalized on an old conspiracy theory about the death of the reggae ic ...
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Katy Perry Reveals Penchant for Cannibalism?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Nov. 3, 2017
A disreputable web site added to its archive of distasteful and entirely fabricated stories with ...
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Did a Mandalay Bay Hotel Worker 'Vanish' After Giving an Interview?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Oct. 16, 2017
A disreputable web site published an illogical and inaccurate conspiracy theory about a valet wo ...
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Upstate New York Murder-Suicide Linked to Las Vegas Mass Shooting?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Oct. 10, 2017
Two disreputable web sites seized on tragic events in upstate New York to further their conspira ...
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Did a Second Gunman Shoot From the Fourth Floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel?
Written by:
Bethania Palma
Oct. 3, 2017
Conspiracy theorists spread false information that a second person targeted a country music conc ...
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Did an American Actor Take Part in a London Bomb Attack 'Hoax'?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Sept. 22, 2017
A bizarre false flag conspiracy theory falsely links an actor from NBC's 'The Office' to the Par ...
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U.S. Government Ships Radioactive Milk to Black Communities as Part of a Genocide Plot?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Alex Kasprak
Sept. 15, 2017
A conspiracy theory involving radioactive milk and diabetes fails on both historical and scienti ...
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Did a 2005 Movie Feature Hurricanes Named Harvey and Irma?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Sept. 8, 2017
An online conspiracy theory about government-created hurricanes gets even the most basic facts w ...
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Did a Former BBC Investigative Journalist Die in 'Suspicious Circumstances'?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Aug. 21, 2017
Liz MacKean fought to reveal historical child sexual abuse, but there is no evidence that she di ...
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'I Was Seth Rich for a Day' — DC Man Misidentified as Murder Victim by Conspiracy Theorists
Written by:
David Emery
Aug. 10, 2017
For Washington, D.C. business owner Jeff Gero it was just another day — until he saw a tweet ide ...
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Did Justin Bieber and Katy Perry Say Pedophiles Run the Music Industry?
Written by:
David Emery
Aug. 7, 2017
Both pop singers were targeted by fake news stories reporting that they had exposed a pedophile ...
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Did the Man Who Discovered the HIV Virus Confess to 'Inventing' It?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
June 12, 2017
A bizarre, entirely false story originated on a web site notorious for bizarre, entirely false s ...
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Is Russia-Backed 'Fake News' Now Being Used in French Elections?
Written by:
Bethania Palma
April 24, 2017
Experts caution that a Kremlin-backed disinformation campaign thought to have been carried out d ...
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Chaffetz to Resign Due to Sex and Russian Money Laundering Scandals?
Written by:
Bethania Palma
April 24, 2017
There is no proof that the Utah Republican is facing multiple looming scandals.
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What is Operation Gotham Shield?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
April 20, 2017
"Operation Gotham Shield" led to a predictable uptick in false flag and nuclear apocalypse rumor ...
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Russia, U.S. Elections, and the Fake News Cycle
Written by:
Brooke Binkowski
Bethania Palma
April 18, 2017
How to walk the line between awareness and conspiracy theory.
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Is Obama 'Commanding' an Army of 30,000 Anti-Trump Activists from His Home?
Written by:
Bethania Palma
Feb. 17, 2017
We found no credible evidence of an "army" or "shadow government" being formed by the former pre ...
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