Doctor Pushing COVID Disinformation Sentenced to Prison for Capitol Riot Despite promoting hydroxychloroquine, Dr. Simone Gold remains licensed in California.
Disinformation Takes Center Stage at January 6 Committee Hearings The second set of House hearings focused on the role of false narratives in motivating the United States Capitol insurrection in January 2021.
Trump’s Bogus DHS Chief Changed Intel on Russia That ‘Hurt’ Him: Report One official said Chad Wolf asked him to focus more on China and Iran.
Gilbert Gottfried Trump is Like ‘Hitler Without the Warmth’ Quote After the death of comedian Gilbert Gottfried, a quote about Donald Trump attributed to him spread virally.
Virginia Thomas Embraced Conspiracy Theories Long Before ‘Big Lie’ Texts Came to Light The Supreme Court justice's wife already had a years-long reputation for pushing existing weaponized disinformation campaigns.
Stephen King ‘Hard to Believe There Was Ever a World Leader as Dumb as Donald Trump’ Quote Meme A quote meme attributing commentary on former U.S. President Donald Trump to Stephen King appeared on Imgur.
‘The Same Executive at NBC Greenlit Fear Factor and The Apprentice, Setting an Unbelievable Sequence of Events in Motion’ A tweet shared to Facebook claimed that just one executive at NBC was responsible for paving the way for reality shows "Fear Factor" and "The Apprentice," decisions which had major ripple effects years later.
Betty White ‘Donald Trump’ Veterans Day Tweet "Betty White" was a feature of Twitter's trending list on November 11 2021, and a screenshot of a purported tweet attributed to the cultural icon took advantage of the algorithmic boost.
New Book Claims Zuckerberg Let Trump Lie to Avoid Federal Oversight A new biography of right-wing tech mogul Peter Thiel claims that, according to him, Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg struck a deal allowing Donald Trump and his allies to spread disinformation in exchange for a lack of federal oversight. The claim was first published in Chafin’s book The Contrarian, excerpts of which were adapted into an […]
Did a Republican Party Webpage Praising Trump’s Afghanistan Deal Disappear? The former United States president now says that the U.S. leaving the country in September 2021 was too soon.