Denise Aguilar, filmed entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, is running for California state assembly and spread a baseless ...

If government officials can dismiss a well-researched, factual account of history as fiction, then what other truths will ...

Their job is to protect life and property. Then came two hurricanes, and the vitriol and disinformation spiraled out of ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is back to doing what she’s best known for: spreading conspiracy theories. The Georgia Republican, who infamously boosted a conspiracy theory about Jewish space ...

North Carolina state Sen. Kevin Corbin (R) denounced what he described as “conspiracy theory junk” circulating about flooding in western North Carolina from Hurricane Helene, referring to ...

It was originally published at The Conversation. There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories, and their reasons for doing so. But there’s a wrinkle ...

A Republican senator in the North Carolina legislature has issued a public plea for people to stop spreading conspiracy theories about the disaster recovery efforts in areas ravaged by flooding from ...

As the death toll from one of the worst U.S. storms in recent memory topped 200 on Friday morning, the Republican congresswoman and noted conspiracy theorist posted a timely reminder on X that ...

claiming that he wrote a book titled The Adrenochrome Witch. This has fueled viral conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and QAnon. Adrenochrome is a chemical compound produced by the oxidation of ...

Advertisement There are several types of this sort of conspiracy-spreader trying to influence you. Coaxing conspiracists -- the extremists In our chapter of a new book on extremism and ...

There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories, and their reasons for doing so. But there’s a wrinkle: My colleagues and I have found that there are a ...

“It does, however, leave a seed for conspiracy theories.” These claims have also taken off outside TikTok. “As the United States government and its buddies in the central banking corporate ...