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Conspiracy Believers Are 91% Likely To Hold Incoherent Beliefs, Study Finds

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 22, 2026

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Hard Knocks, Hidden Plots: Life’s Worst Moments May Make Conspiracy Theories Appealing

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 9, 2026

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Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Linked To Long-Term Media Distrust, Study Finds

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 7, 2026

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Study Finds Link Between Conspiracy Beliefs, Real-World Action

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Post date July 30, 2026

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It’s primetime for conspiracy theorist video creators

Post author By crystalg
Post date April 28, 2026

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Alex Jones has uncovered another massive conspiracy

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Post date April 24, 2026

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Trump posts, then pulls bizarre AI video promoting MedBed conspiracy

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Post date September 28, 2025

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Conspiracy theorists are blaming flash floods on cloud seeding — it has to stop

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 10, 2025

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Meet RFK Jr., Trump’s controversial Cabinet pick known for his anti-vaccine conspiracy theories

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Post date January 29, 2025

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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial for fraud and conspiracy

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 2, 2023

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The conspiracy theory involving a creepy Donald Trump animatronic at Walt Disney World explained — and why people are talking about it once again

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Post date July 1, 2023

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Fetterman makes a video pretending to have a body double to address the conspiracy that has reached everyone from Melania Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Post date April 18, 2023

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From Mike Lindell to OAN, here’s everyone Dominion and Smartmatic are suing over election conspiracy theories so far

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Post date April 18, 2023

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Arizona’s GOP-led legislature expels lawmaker — a Republican — for promoting conspiracy theory about Democrats and drug cartels

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Post date April 12, 2023

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‘Illicit Conspiracy’: HBO Accuses Paramount, MTV of Violating ‘South Park’ Streaming Contract

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 27, 2023

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Sidney Powell cited woman who claimed to be headless, time-traveling entity in email pushing election conspiracy theories

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Post date February 16, 2023

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Four Members of the Oath Keepers Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy in Jan. 6 Attack

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 23, 2023

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As Elites Arrive in Davos, Conspiracy Theories Thrive Online

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 16, 2023

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Jan. 6 Committee Unveils Final Report, Detailing Trump ‘Multi-Part Conspiracy’

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Post date December 22, 2022

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Oath Keepers Leader Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy for Role in Jan. 6 Riot

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 29, 2022

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Problems With Some Arizona Voting Machines Are Already Stoking Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 8, 2022

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The story that spurred conspiracy theories about the attack on Paul Pelosi was retracted by NBC

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Post date November 5, 2022

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Federal affidavit debunks wild far-right conspiracy theories about the attack on Paul Pelosi amplified by Elon Musk, Ted Cruz and Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Post date October 31, 2022

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A Fox affiliate in Phoenix accidentally shared test election results during a live broadcast, sparking conspiracy theories about rigged elections

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Post date October 28, 2022

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COVID skepticism acts as a ‘gateway’ to believing other conspiracy theories

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 27, 2022

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Dominion Voting Systems wants to question several Tucker Carlson and Lou Dobbs producers in their sprawling election conspiracy lawsuit against Fox News

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Post date September 14, 2022

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Alex Jones must pay $4.1 million for spreading Sandy Hook conspiracy theory

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Post date August 4, 2022

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Monkeypox conspiracy theories may be spreading faster than the virus, survey reveals

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 4, 2022

Tags 'spreading, conspiracy, Faster, Monkeypox, Reveals, Survey, Than, theories, Virus

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I spent two and a half hours with David Farnsworth, the man who Trump endorsed to defeat GOP Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers. Here’s what I learned about religion, ‘conspiracy facts,’ and the modern Republican party.

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 30, 2022

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Trump’s acting defense secretary tried to investigate a voter fraud conspiracy involving Italian satellites that the DOJ called ‘pure insanity’

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Post date June 23, 2022

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Trump campaign lawyer says Trump aide Peter Navarro accused him of being ‘an agent of the deep state’ for questioning baseless Dominion voter fraud conspiracy theories

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 13, 2022

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COVID conspiracy theories linked to depression

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 9, 2022

Tags conspiracy, COVID, Depression, linked, theories

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Bill Gates said it’s ‘tragic’ if a conspiracy theory about him putting tracking microchips in COVID-19 vaccines is driving people to not get vaccinated

Post author By crystalg
Post date May 14, 2022

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Google autocomplete helps legitimize conspiracy theorists, study says

Post author By crystalg
Post date April 1, 2022

Tags Autocomplete, conspiracy, Google, Helps, Legitimize, Says, Study, Theorists

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Social media users in China are obsessing over a conspiracy theory that claims COVID-19 was produced by US-linked laboratories in Ukraine

Post author By crystalg
Post date March 25, 2022

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Oath Keepers Founder and 10 Others Charged With Seditious Conspiracy in Jan. 6

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 14, 2022

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Jury Finds Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Guilty of Fraud and Conspiracy

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 3, 2022

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Belief in COVID conspiracy theories growing as trust in Dr. Fauci becomes more divisive, survey reveals

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 20, 2021

Tags becomes, Belief, conspiracy, COVID, divisive, Fauci, Growing, More, Reveals, Survey, theories, trust

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Far-right lures recruits using COVID-19 conspiracy theories, alongside misogyny, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia, says study

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Post date December 19, 2021

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Trump said Mike Lindell’s idea to melt down Dominion voting machines and turn them into prison bars was ‘very good’ during a rollicking 40-minute interview about election fraud conspiracy theories

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 16, 2021

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Ken Griffin thinks bitcoin will be replaced by ethereum and says the Reddit-fueled conspiracy theories about his involvement in the GameStop saga are like a bad SNL joke

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Post date November 10, 2021

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Citadel hits back at ‘Twitter mobs’ and conspiracy theorists accusing the firm of pressuring brokerages to limit GameStop trading

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Post date September 29, 2021

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GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz said Tucker Carlson is correct about white nationalist ‘replacement’ conspiracy theory and called ADL racist

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Post date September 26, 2021

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Conspiracy theories gain acceptance through blind trust in social media

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 24, 2021

Tags 'Blind, Acceptance, conspiracy, Gain, Media, Social, theories, through', trust

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I completely buy the conspiracy theory that Roy Kent from Ted Lasso is CGI

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Post date September 1, 2021

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2 Myanmar citizens arrested on charges of ‘conspiracy to assault Myanmar’s Representative to the United Nations’

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Post date August 6, 2021

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Former police chief and American Phoenix Project founder indicted on conspiracy charges related to January 6, alongside 5 men prosecutors say he recruited to far-right group

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Post date June 10, 2021

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Where did the microchip vaccine conspiracy theory come from anyway?

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Post date June 5, 2021

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Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert downplayed the Capitol riot at a major QAnon conference and posed for photos with a conspiracy theorist influencer

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Post date May 31, 2021

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Rudy Giuliani urges judge to dismiss Dominion’s $1.3 billion lawsuit, alleging it hasn’t actually lost money over election conspiracy theories

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Post date May 25, 2021

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Just 12 people responsible for spreading most COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, report claims

Post author By crystalg
Post date May 17, 2021

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Another member of the Boogaloo Bois pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges to sell weapons to Hamas as part of ‘Boojahideen’ sub-group

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Post date May 4, 2021

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Rudy Giuliani, who helped lead Trump’s bogus election-fraud conspiracy theory, is being mocked after warning of the dangers of misinformation

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Post date March 4, 2021

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GOP Senator Ben Sasse warned that the QAnon conspiracy theory movement is destroying the Republican Party

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Post date January 17, 2021

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The accused Nashville suicide bomber was reportedly paranoid about 5G technology. Here’s what we know about the false 5G conspiracy that went viral this year.

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Post date December 29, 2020

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Data scientists are teaming up with influencers to fight dangerous conspiracy theories about COVID-19 as people shun experts’ warnings

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 22, 2020

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Social Exclusion Leads To Belief In Conspiracy Theories, ‘Fake News,’ Study Finds

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 18, 2020

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Meet Sidney Powell, the former federal prosecutor turned conspiracy theorist who’s fueling baseless claims about election fraud

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Post date November 28, 2020

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Why India’s Most Populous State Just Passed a Law Inspired by an Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theory

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Post date November 26, 2020

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Trump just fired the US’s top cybersecurity official who spent weeks striking down the president’s conspiracy theories about election fraud

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Post date November 17, 2020

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Donald Trump and Trump Jr. spread a conspiracy theory that Pfizer deliberately waited until after Election Day to release its COVID-19 vaccine trial results

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Post date November 10, 2020

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Election officials debunked the Arizona ‘SharpieGate’ conspiracy theory that right-wing activists spread online

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Post date November 5, 2020

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Facebook and TikTok block hashtags used to spread election conspiracy theories

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Post date November 5, 2020

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Facebook paused efforts to redirect QAnon searches to fact-checks after a glitch showed people information about the conspiracy theory even when they weren’t looking for it

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Post date October 21, 2020

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Sacha Baron Cohen just slammed Facebook for being a home for conspiracy theories that could ‘kill democracy as we know it’

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Post date October 8, 2020

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COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Are Spreading Rapidly—and They’re a Public Health Risk All Their Own

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 21, 2020

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

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Post date August 19, 2020

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Trump refuses to shoot down false birther claims about Kamala Harris, but says he won’t pursue the conspiracy theory

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Post date August 15, 2020

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‘Perfect storm of uncertainty’: Men more likely to believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 28, 2020

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TikTok Starts Blocking Searches for QAnon Conspiracy Theory Videos

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Post date July 24, 2020

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Twitter cracks down on QAnon conspiracy group, including a ban on 7,000 accounts

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Post date July 21, 2020

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How conspiracy theorists are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to sell toxic bleach as a miracle cure

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Post date July 18, 2020

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