QAnon source
What Is QAnon, the Viral Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory? (NY Times)
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Great Replacement source
Hollow Earth source
Hollow Earth Conspiracy Theory Says Planet Is Filled With Aliens and Nazis—But It Isn't (Newsweek)
Flat Earth source
Inside the Flat Earth Conference, Where the World's Oldest Conspiracy Theory Is Hot Again (The Daily Beast)
Deep State source
What the US's 'Deep State' Actually Is, and Why Trump Gets It Wrong (Business Insider)
New World Order source
Pittsburgh shooter suspect thought George Soros was puppet-mastering the world economy (Vox)
"Trans Agenda" source
Gender ideology is a fake movement created by the right, in a backlash against LGBT rights (QZ)
Nazis on the moon source
Why are we still obsessed with the idea of Nazis on the Moon? (The Telegraph)
Cultural Marxism source
Pizzagate source
Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal (Rolling Stone)
Secret Satanic Rituals source
Satanic Panic's long history — and why it never really ended — explained (Vox)
George Floyd Crisis Actor source
George Floyd's 'Fake' Death and Other Misinformation Spread Online (NY Times)
Jewish Space Lasers source
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s space laser and the age-old problem of blaming the Jews (Vox)
Rothschild Central Bank source
Jewish "Control" of the Federal Reserve: A Classic Antisemitic Myth (ADL)
George Soros source
The Troubling Truth About The Obsession With George Soros (Forbes)
Protocols of the Elders of Zion source
A Hoax of Hate: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (ADL)
Adrenochrome source
The Dark Virality of a Hollywood Blood-Harvesting Conspiracy (Wired)
Illuminati source
Hollywood is turning your kids gay source
10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked (SPLC)
Sandy Hook Fake source
Alex Jones liable for damages over Sandy Hook shooting claims, judge rules (The Guardian)
Bill Gates depopulation source
How Bill Gates became the voodoo doll of Covid conspiracies (BBC)
Reptilian overlords source
Lizard-People Conspiracy Theory Origins: Embraced by Nashville Bomber (Insider)
Holocaust denial source
Holocaust Denial (ISD)
Tartaria source
Inside Architecture's Wildest Conspiracy Theory (Bloomberg)
Jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams source
11 September 2001: The conspiracy theories still spreading after 20 years (BBC)
Phantom time source
Astronomy, Charlemagne And The Mystery Of Phantom Time (Forbes)
5G causes [insert illness] source
The Great 5G Conspiracy (The Atlantic)
U.S. Presidential Election was stolen source
EXPLAINER: Election claims, and why it's clear Biden won (AP News)
RFID tracking devices in bras source
Fact check: Victoria's Secret's RFID tags do not track customers (USA Today)
Global warming hoax source
Fact check: Scientific consensus says humans are dominant cause of climate change (USA Today)
COVID-19 is a Chinese bioweapon source
Ivermectin cures COVID source
Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug (BBC)
Plandemic source
How the ‘Plandemic’ Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online (Published 2020) (NY Times)
Antifa did Jan 6 source
How Pro-Trump Forces Pushed a Lie About Antifa at the Capitol Riot (NY Times)
Moon landing fake source
Chemtrails source
'Chemtrail' conspiracy theorists: The people who think governments control the weather (BBC)
Vaccines have microchips source
Why it’s not possible for the Covid vaccines to contain a magnetic tracking chip that connects to 5G (CNBC)
Biden is a robot source
QAnon believers apparently think Biden is a robot with a malfunctioning mouth (Independent)
Ancient giant trees source
Flat-Earthers Have a Wild New Theory About Forests (The Atlantic)
Essential oils cure all illnesses source
How the wellness and influencer crowd serve conspiracies to the masses (The Guardian)
Wayfair trafficking source
Wayfair Trafficking Conspiracy Theory Spreading on TikTok (Rolling Stone)
Feral people in forests source
Feral people in national parks rumor spreads on TikTok: Is it true? (In the Know)
Iraqi Dinar scam source
Trump Fans Sink Savings Into 'Iraqi Dinar' Scam (The Daily Beast)
Avril Lavigne replaced source
Avril Lavigne responds to rumours she died and was replaced by body double (The Independent)
Michael Jackson still alive source
Ted Cruz is the Zodiac source
Stevie Wonder isn’t blind source
Is There a Right Way to Act Blind? (NY Times)
Mattress Firm money laundering source
The Great Mattress Conspiracy: Why Are There So Many Mattress Firm Stores? (WBUR)
Prince Charles vampire source
Prince Charles traces his roots to the original vampire (CBS News)
Greta Thunberg is a time traveller source
This just in: Greta Thunberg is not a time traveller (CBS News)
Elvis lives source
Elvis Presley Death Theories: Why Do Some Think He's Alive? | Time (Time)
Titanic never sank source
There's a Wild Conspiracy Theory That the Titanic Never Sank (Yahoo! News)
Tupac alive in Serbia source
Why That 'Tupac Lives' Conspiracy Refuses to Die (High Snobiety)
Alien abductions source
Some scientific explanations for alien abduction that aren't so out of this world (The Conversation)
Kylie Jenner is a clone source
The Craziest Kardashian Conspiracy Theories of All Time (Marie Claire)
U.S. is a corporation source
False: The United States was declared a corporation in 1871 (Logically)
Cryptids source
Jimmy Hoffa source
What Happened to Jimmy Hoffa? (Biography)
We live in a simulation source
Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50 (Scientific American)
JFK assassination source
‘An outrage against democracy’: JFK's nephews urge Biden to reveal assassination records (Politico)
Area 51 source
Area 51 and aliens: the myth, the meme, and the strange reality, explained (Vox)
UFOs source
Government Report Finds No Evidence UFOs Were Alien Spacecraft (NY times)
Epstein didn’t kill himself source
Jeffrey Epstein's Death Still Leaves Many Unanswered Questions, Two Years On (Newsweek)
Iran Contra source
Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs (Brown)
The Iran-Contra Affair (Miller Center)
Denver International Airport source
Denver airport conspiracy theories: The definitive guide (Denver Post)
Charles Manson CIA source
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring – review (The Guardian)
MKUltra source
The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief' (NPR)
Watergate source
Watergate: the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon, explained (Vox)
NSA mass surveillance source
U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal (Reuters)
Operation Paperclip source
Nayirah Testimony source
When contemplating war, beware of babies in incubators (CS Monitor)
#freebritney source
Britney Spears Quietly Pushed for Years to End Her Conservatorship (NY Times)
Tuskegee Experiment source
40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study (McGill)
Project Mockingbird source
Before Nixon: When JFK tapped the phone of a New York Times reporter (CJR)
Big Oil pushed climate disinfo source
Climate Disinformation (UCSUSA)
Big Tobacco lied about cancer source
Big Tobacco, war and politics (Nature)
Cointelpro source
More About FBI Spying (ACLU)
FBI spied on MLK source
When the FBI Spied on MLK (The Atlantic)
