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Fact check: Debunking the Charlie Kirk murder conspiracy theories
Fighting disinformation Social media The Middle East Donald Trump See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Fake photos. False claims. Wild conspiracy theories. The public murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, captured in gruesome footage that spread around the world, has set off an avalanche of misinformation. Bogus assertions have been spread on social media by Americans across …
Read More »‘The worst I’ve seen’: Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories explode online, from the left and right
Fighting disinformation Social media Donald Trump The Middle East See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Washington — Baseless conspiracy theories about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk have exploded on social media in the week since the shooting, with partisans from both sides pushing a dizzying array of claims at a speed rarely seen before, experts say. There …
Read More »Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk’s Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division – The New York Times
Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk’s Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division The New York Times AI fuels false claims after Charlie Kirk’s death, CBS News analysis reveals CBS News Security analysts flag rise in Russian-created misinformation posts on social media following Kirk shooting ABC News Foreign disinformation about Charlie Kirk’s killing seeks to widen US divisions AP News Charlie Kirk Killing Sparks …
Read More »Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice | Trump administration
The arrest of a US army veteran who protested against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has raised alarms among legal experts and fellow veterans familiar with his service in Afghanistan. Bajun Mavalwalla II – a former army sergeant who survived a roadside bomb blast on a special operations mission in Afghanistan – was charged in July with “conspiracy to impede …
Read More »Bill O’Reilly Says Trump’s ‘Personal Vendetta’ Conspiracy Probe Against Hillary Clinton and Others Has One Big Hurdle
Bill O’Reilly firmly believes the Trump administration’s push to indict Hillary Clinton, James Comey and others in the supposed Russian collusion fraud is a “personal vendetta” – but sees a major hurdle in it amounting to much. On Tuesday’s episode of “Talking Points Memo,” O’Reilly pointed out that if Attorney General Pam Bondi goes through with her threat to present evidence …
Read More »How Trump decided to fire a little-known statistician, sparking conspiracy theories about government data
Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled one of his simmering resentments: the statistician overseeing the tabulation of the monthly figures was appointed by former President Joe Biden. Unlike Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom Trump has been criticizing for months, the president …
Read More »Ex-CIA agent hits back at Tulsi Gabbard after she accused Obama of ‘treasonous conspiracy’ against Trump | US politics
A former CIA officer who helped lead the intelligence assessments over alleged Russia interference in the 2016 presidential election has said Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is ignorant of the practices of espionage after she accused Barack Obama and his national security team of “treasonous conspiracy” against Donald Trump. Susan Miller, the agency’s head of counter-intelligence at the …
Read More »How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic
In late June, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group of independent experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), published an assessment of the origins of COVID. The report concluded that although we don’t know conclusively where the virus that caused the pandemic came from: a zoonotic origin with spillover from animals to …
Read More »The Macrons v Candace Owens: lawsuit marks new phase in battle against conspiracy theories | Brigitte Macron
When the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte, took the rare step this week of filing a US defamation lawsuit against the rightwing podcaster Candace Owens, it marked a new phase in a legal battle on both sides of the Atlantic against the false claim that Brigitte Macron is a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux. The Macrons’ US lawsuit …
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