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Was the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting a Hoax?

Written by:

David Mikkelson

Dec 14, 2012 A video supposedly documenting that the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were a staged ...

In Uvalde, Texas, 19 children and two adults were killed in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.

No, Uvalde Shooting Victim's 2 Fathers Were Not Proof of a 'False Flag'

Written by:

Dan MacGuill

Jun 2, 2022 Conspiracy theorists reached unimaginable new lows in response to the grief of parents whose chi ...

Did the Same 'Crisis Actor' Play the Mother and Victim in Three Different Mass Shootings?

Written by:

David Mikkelson

Nov 10, 2018 Three women who have suffered grievously deserve more respect than to be made the subject of jap ...

Does This Video Show Injuries Created with Makeup to Fool the Public About Atrocities?

Written by:

Dan Evon

Jul 24, 2018 A video featuring a Palestinian makeup artist was used as propaganda to claim that reports of at ...

Were Palestinian Martyrs Caught on Video Faking Their Deaths?

Written by:

Dan Evon

May 21, 2018 A video of a 2013 protest in Egypt is often shared with erroneous claims about false flag attack ...

Conspiracy Theorists Arrested for Harassing Sutherland Springs Church Have Been Released

Written by:

Bethania Palma

Mar 7, 2018 Robert Ussery and Jodi Mann have been stalking mass shooting victims and survivors for months.

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Conspiracy Theorists Arrested After Harassing Sutherland Springs Pastor

Written by:

Bethania Palma

Mar 6, 2018 The pair have spent months stalking families of victims and their communities in a failed attemp ...

Are Parkland School Shooting Survivors Receiving Death Threats from NRA Members?

Written by:

Bethania Palma

Feb 27, 2018 Although we don't know if people using social media to harass massacre survivors are all NRA mem ...

Is Laura Phelps a Crisis Actor Who Lost a Child at Both Sandy Hook and Marjory Stoneman Douglas?

Written by:

Dan Evon

Feb 21, 2018 A conspiracy theory accusing Nick and Laura Phelps of being "crisis actors" received a new (and ...

Were News Stories About the Florida Mass Shooting Posted Days Before It Happened?

Written by:

Bethania Palma

Feb 20, 2018 A glitch that affects the time stamps on Google searches has led to bogus "false flag" conspirac ...

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Was the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting a Hoax?

No, Uvalde Shooting Victim's 2 Fathers Were Not Proof of a 'False Flag'

Did the Same 'Crisis Actor' Play the Mother and Victim in Three Different Mass Shootings?

Does This Video Show Injuries Created with Makeup to Fool the Public About Atrocities?

Were Palestinian Martyrs Caught on Video Faking Their Deaths?

Conspiracy Theorists Arrested for Harassing Sutherland Springs Church Have Been Released

Conspiracy Theorists Arrested After Harassing Sutherland Springs Pastor

Are Parkland School Shooting Survivors Receiving Death Threats from NRA Members?

Is Laura Phelps a Crisis Actor Who Lost a Child at Both Sandy Hook and Marjory Stoneman Douglas?

Were News Stories About the Florida Mass Shooting Posted Days Before It Happened?

Did an American Actor Take Part in a London Bomb Attack 'Hoax'?

Did CNN Use the Same Girl in Three Different Refugee Crisis Pictures?

Convicted Charleston Shooter Dylann Roof Is Child Actor John Christian Graas

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