What Did Alex Jones Do? After substantial judgments were awarded in the Sandy Hook defamation lawsuits, some pundits tried to downplay Jones' role in seeding and encouraging the spread of highly corrosive disinformation.
About That ’11-Year-Old Made $1K Selling N-Word Passes to White Friends at School’ Screenshot An out-of-context screenshot about an 11-year-old boy purportedly making $1,000 by selling "n-word passes" at school spread virally.
‘Alex Jones Loses Thousands to Mistress Amber’ A phony screenshot of a headline claiming that the InfoWars host had "lost thousands" (of dollars) to a "Communist findom" circulated across social media.
Are ‘BLM Convoys’ Threatening to ‘Occupy Atlanta’? A longtime conspiracy theorist tried to regurgitate disinformation around anti-fascist protesters in order to smear the Black Lives Matter movement.
Did Colorado Revise its COVID-19 Death Count from 1150 to 878 — and ‘Admit’ They Were Counting Deaths from Other Causes? Ongoing rumors that death rates were being inflated during a pandemic crested when Colorado revised state data, but it's not as sinister as circulating claims suggest.
Facebook Activity for Right-Wing ‘Gridlock’ Protests Surges A host of group and event pages were launched on the platform just 24 hours after protests in Michigan and Ohio.
Did the CDC Order All Deaths Be Recorded as a Result of COVID-19 — Even Heart Attacks and Accidents? A spiraling conspiracy theory about exaggerated coronavirus mortality holds that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered every death in the United States be attributed to COVID-19 -- even getting "hit by a bus."
Conspiracy Theorist Roger Stone Is Latest Trump Associate to be Convicted Stone purportedly asked Infowars host Alex Jones for a presidential pardon before being found guilty of lying to Congress.
Disinformation Peddlers Push ‘October 16th’ Conspiracy Theory A United States Marine Corps directive led to a fresh tide of online bilge attempting to convince readers to be ready for a nonexistent armed insurrection... again.
Were ‘Muslim Jihadis in Paris’ Arrested for Planning an Attack Three Days Before the Notre Dame Fire? Soon after the April 15 2019 Notre Dame Cathedral fire broke out, Twitter user @FaithGoldy tweeted that the blaze occurred shortly after the arrest of “three Muslim jihadis” in Paris (archived here): https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/1117865690483101697 A screenshot of the tweet was subsequently shared by the Facebook page “Freedom From Tyranny” (archived here.) The original tweet linked to an […]
