Conspiracy Theories
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 19, 2017
A satirical web site published fake news reporting that Jesus Campos worked in the non-profit's ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 16, 2017
Police told us that despite widespread rumors and speculation, Jesus Campos is not missing.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 16, 2017
A disreputable web site published an illogical and inaccurate conspiracy theory about a valet wo ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 10, 2017
Two disreputable web sites seized on tragic events in upstate New York to further their conspira ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 3, 2017
Conspiracy theorists spread false information that a second person targeted a country music conc ...
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 ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill Alex Kasprak
Sept. 15, 2017
A conspiracy theory involving radioactive milk and diabetes fails on both historical and scienti ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 8, 2017
An online conspiracy theory about government-created hurricanes gets even the most basic facts w ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 21, 2017
Liz MacKean fought to reveal historical child sexual abuse, but there is no evidence that she di ...
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 ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 7, 2017
Both pop singers were targeted by fake news stories reporting that they had exposed a pedophile ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 24, 2017
There's no evidence that Justine Damond was targeted for her healing practices.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 12, 2017
A bizarre, entirely false story originated on a web site notorious for bizarre, entirely false s ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 22, 2017
The murdered DNC staffer's parents posted a video to the family's GoFundMe page a month ago than ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Emery
May 12, 2017
An Internet meme claims that government agencies tried to curb consumption of illegal liquor by ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
April 24, 2017
Experts caution that a Kremlin-backed disinformation campaign thought to have been carried out d ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
April 24, 2017
There is no proof that the Utah Republican is facing multiple looming scandals.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 20, 2017
"Operation Gotham Shield" led to a predictable uptick in false flag and nuclear apocalypse rumor ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
April 19, 2017
A claim that Russians have compromising information on Rep. Jason Chaffetz appears to be unfounded.
Written by: Brooke Binkowski Bethania Palma
April 18, 2017
How to walk the line between awareness and conspiracy theory.
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