It's really fantastic because it's like conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory and you can't quite trace it.
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But this Politico report offers another slice of evidence that this conspiracy theory is just that — a conspiracy theory.
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Regardless, Trump, thirsty as always to attack the press, spun a conspiracy theory that originated from the dark corners of Twitter and used it to attack the "Fake News" with a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy theory.
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"I do not believe in the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, I have never believed in the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, and I have never said in any online video that I am a believer in the conspiracy theory," she said.
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In his dismissal of the conspiracy theory he'd championed, Trump inaccurately claimed that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton started the conspiracy theory. 7.
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On Trump's claim that he "finished" the conspiracy theory: Trump tried to pass off his involvement in the conspiracy theory as a public service, since he fanned the conspiracy theory for years, ultimately pushing Obama to release his birth certificate.
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While some were undoubtedly joking, in this day and age it's a very fine line between ironic conspiracy-theory mongering and sincere conspiracy-theory mongering.
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One of the most harmful conspiracy theory communities is grafting onto one of the oldest conspiracy theory communities, and disinformation experts are starting to get worried.
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" Tom Bossert, Trump's former homeland security adviser, said on ABC in September that he was frustrated by the "conspiracy theory," adding: "It's not only a conspiracy theory.
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Sommer: Unlike something like birtherism or Pizzagate, QAnon is a kind of mega-conspiracy theory that sucks in just about every conspiracy theory you can think of.
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QAnon — which began relatively simply as a conspiracy theory about the Mueller investigation — now includes references and allusions to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and "false flag" mass shootings.
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In December 2016, a man motivated by the conspiracy theory fired a gun in Comet Pizza, a Washington, D.C., restaurant that also featured heavily in the conspiracy theory.
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This style of conspiracy theory illustrations addresses a singular conspiracy theory — in this case, Uranium One — and tries to unmask the actors and their connections behind one specific plot.
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China pushes conspiracy theory: A spokesman for the Chinese government on Thursday promoted a conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was brought to the city of Wuhan by the U.S. military.
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He was alluding to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory that led to an armed gunman showing up at a DC-area pizzeria in 123 — a conspiracy theory spread, in part, on YouTube.
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Only then did Trump speak about the conspiracy theory around Barack Obama's birthplace — a racist conspiracy theory that Obama wasn't born in the United States, which Trump has fanned for many years.
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Sarsgaard: The attraction for me was around shining a light on a quote on a conspiracy theory in real life that would lead to the fact that there's no conspiracy theory at all.
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So what does atheism have to do with conspiracy theory?
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It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it's the truth.
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And that conspiracy theory about McCain's time as a POW?
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They always like to say, 'Oh, that's a conspiracy theory.
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That conspiracy theory, spread by social media, is widely believed.
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But that's a conspiracy theory; there's no evidence for it.
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Well, yeah, type in conspiracy theory in any search engine.
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Here's a conspiracy theory: Maybe it's gotta do with Trump.
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This conspiracy theory has also been spread by President Trump.
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You know what I think it is a conspiracy theory?
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My conspiracy theory is as good as any other. pic.twitter.
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"Everything in this country is a conspiracy theory," she said.
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This is another proliferation of a completely false conspiracy theory.
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There is a difference, though, between conspiracy theory and conspiracy.
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The authorship of this conspiracy theory memo are still mysterious.
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Motherboard: What is a conspiracy theory you actually believe in?
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Yep. How did you first learn about this conspiracy theory?
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Then, two years ago, he started making conspiracy theory videos.
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The QAnon conspiracy theory showed up at a Trump rally.
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A conspiracy theory with ancient roots and a bloody history.
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This is an epic and elaborate video game conspiracy theory.
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Do G.O.P. leaders really think this conspiracy theory is true?
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But there's one conspiracy theory that he's not ruling out.
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I'm not talking about some kind of wild conspiracy theory.
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It's a conspiracy theory that's all conspiracy and no theory.
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Take, for example, the conspiracy theory that DNC staffer Seth
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They always like to say 'oh that's a conspiracy theory'.
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Until then, I put it in the conspiracy theory bucket.
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That's not exactly a yes, he believes Trump's conspiracy theory.
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The confusion feeds the conspiracy theory and mutes the truth.
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Bossert in September called it "a completely debunked" conspiracy theory.
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President Trump's impeachment is the result of a conspiracy theory.
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Trump was alluding to a conspiracy theory; we explain here.
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This conspiracy theory is compelling because of its participatory nature.
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Call the critics fake news and stoke a conspiracy theory.
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The fact that most of the study participants were previously watching other conspiracy theory videos shouldn't be ignored, according to Joseph Uscinski, a professor at the University of Miami and renowned conspiracy theory expert.
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Congressman pushes conspiracy theory On Thursday night, a US congressman told Fox News that "nothing is adding up" in the investigation, before pushing a conspiracy theory without providing evidence to back up his claim.
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Conspiracy theory peddling InfoWars host Alex Jones apologized on Friday for spreading the unfounded conspiracy theory that a D.C. pizza restaurant was at the center of a child sex-abuse ring run by Hillary Clinton.
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Go deeper: Vindman calls Ukrainian interference conspiracy theory a "Russian narrative" Trump repeats Ukraine conspiracy theory on 53-minute "Fox & Friends" call Trump denies sending Giuliani to Ukraine to dig up dirt on political opponents
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"It's a conspiracy theory that I'm actually interested in," she added.
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The bizarre conspiracy theory was taken one step further on Twitter.
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A list of the groups sharing the polling station conspiracy theory.
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" Intersectionality is thus "really dangerous" or a "conspiracy theory of victimization.
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A retweet of a conspiracy theory about Russian opposition politician Navalny.
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It's a conspiracy theory comment that beckons Redditors to learn more.
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Snopes also posted a debunk of the civil war conspiracy theory.
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Perhaps I am behind the conspiracy-theory curve on this one.
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If you like conspiracy theory rabbit holes on YouTube: South Korea.
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And the dossier plays a key role in this conspiracy theory.
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The panel on The View discussed the conspiracy theory on Monday.
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QAnon is essentially the greatest crossover event in conspiracy theory history.
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All elections, even blowouts, give rise to scapegoating and conspiracy theory.
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Scalia's unexamined death will add to the conspiracy theory industrial complex.
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I like a good conspiracy theory, so I started doing research.
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Without facts, this is just a belief—a paranoid conspiracy theory.
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Bellamy has been on the conspiracy theory train for many years.
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QAnon, an alarming and deeply absurd conspiracy theory, blew up there.
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Read: Trump Is Still Talking About the Cruz JFK Conspiracy Theory
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The latest conspiracy theory appears to have no basis in reality.
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As his campaign collapses, he's building his grandest conspiracy theory yet.
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That's a creepy conspiracy theory that doesn't ring true to me.
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Maduro and others have dismissed that as a baseless conspiracy theory.
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That racist conspiracy theory was the springboard for Trump's presidential run.
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People promoting the conspiracy theory have previously appeared at Trump rallies.
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Trump rose to political prominence on a racist "birther" conspiracy theory.
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Sorry, I wont subject my audience to conspiracy theory fake news.
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Trump just spread a baseless conspiracy theory about Jeffrey Epstein's death
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The conspiracy theory aspect has particular currency with the yellow vests.
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There are a few counter-arguments to the murder conspiracy theory.
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To me this sounded like a leap, a lefty conspiracy theory.
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Among white nationalists' major motivators is "the great replacement" conspiracy theory.
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Some conspiracy theory channels led to Fox more often than others.
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Like telecommunications giant Huawei, CEFC's behaviour lends itself to conspiracy theory.
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In this conspiracy theory, what third party are they even imagining?
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The conspiracy theory lacks evidence and has been dismissed by scientists.
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Mr. Trump resurfaced the conspiracy theory in a tweet Wednesday morning.
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Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow pushes conspiracy theory about Ukrainian election interference
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J&J dismissed the Reuters report as an absurd conspiracy theory.
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It is a conspiracy theory that was born on talk radio.
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That, literally, is where the facts in Cotton's conspiracy theory end.
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He also retweeted numerous fans, including a notorious conspiracy theory peddler.
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Giuliani also tried to deflect, perhaps toward a new conspiracy theory.
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Concoct a wild-eyed conspiracy theory and blame the federal government.
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Trump's Ukraine server conspiracy theory is a chair with no legs.
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Last year, Business Insider found the app recommended conspiracy theory videos.
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John Kennedy on Biden conspiracy theory: "Don't gaslight us, sir" pic.twitter.
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John Kennedy repeats Ukraine conspiracy theory about DNC server GOP Sen.
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Nor is this just a conspiracy theory in the Middle East.
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Which I know you're going to have another conspiracy theory about.
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Hill shuts down GOP conspiracy theory From the start of her testimony, Hill made clear she would not allow Republicans to perpetuate their conspiracy theory that Ukraine — not Russia — had interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
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That was called "Pizzagate," a conspiracy theory that Alex Jones helped disseminate.
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Birth of a conspiracy theory: How Trump's wiretap claim got started Sen.
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Men's rights activism bears all the hallmarks of a typical conspiracy theory.
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Alma Weston: There was a conspiracy theory, because of course there was.
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It's blue and gold, with mysterious, almost Illuminati conspiracy theory-friendly designs.
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Reinking's Facebook page, where he posted a link about a conspiracy theory.
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" WATCH: @SenRonJohnson is asked why he winced & brings up a "conspiracy theory.
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But here's one powerful thing: That conspiracy theory you think you see?
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But Kennedy has maintained his belief in the thimerosal-autism conspiracy theory.
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Nothing brings a father and son together like a conspiracy theory, amirite?
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"I don't want people to think it's some conspiracy theory," Davis said.
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Just to be clear: You can probably file this under conspiracy theory.
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Rich's family demanded a retraction, saying the conspiracy theory has been concocted.
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The president of the United States embracing yet another online conspiracy theory.
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Naturally, we have our own conspiracy theory to add to the mix.
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Chuck E. Cheese responded to Shane Dawson's viral "recycled pizza" conspiracy theory.
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However, the group now believes the conspiracy theory has gone too far.
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I'm honored that anyone would speculate on a conspiracy theory involving me.
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And it starts to look a lot more like a conspiracy theory.
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"It's not only a conspiracy theory, it is completely debunked," Bossert said.
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With the photographs, all of the experts chose science over conspiracy theory.
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Until the next Becky conspiracy theory pops up, I agree with Ora.
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Once we realized this, our minds naturally went to conspiracy-theory mode.
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And it is these barriers that give rise to Cenedella's conspiracy theory.
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Until then, the network had largely mocked birtherism as a conspiracy theory.
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"Sorry to dispel your conspiracy theory on voter fraud," Mr. Flack wrote.
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Mr. Trump's own Justice Department has rejected this as a conspiracy theory.
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"Instead he tweeted about it and created a conspiracy theory against Twitter."
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Oh, and the post also referenced QAnon -- the far-right conspiracy theory.
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Over six years, the Soviets spread this conspiracy theory across 80 countries.
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"birther" conspiracy theory he pushed for years—a completely bogus claim that
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The Cruz conspiracy theory was part of a uniquely Jones-ian pattern.
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It is a potent message in Turkey's conspiracy-theory-fueled political culture.
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What about that conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton and the DNC's server?
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I suppose this was a twist on a "false flag" conspiracy theory.
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Obviously, that language feels ripped straight from the lexicon of conspiracy theory.
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Yet it was also aligned with the conspiracy theory regarding Obama's birth.
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Where does this malignant conspiracy theory come from in the first place?
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This conspiracy theory also gained a little bit of traction on Twitter.
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And the denials of misconduct around Roy Moore are tinged with conspiracy theory.
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Trying to disprove a conspiracy theory thus usually only serves to reinforce it.
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And now, a food-related conspiracy theory is allegedly being spread in Turkey.
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That is a conspiracy theory promoted by Alex Jones, and it is false.
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"It was Cyrus Beene" is not a helpful tip; it's a conspiracy theory.
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Trump regularly discussed the birther conspiracy theory in 2011, according to the Times.
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The baseless conspiracy theory traveled much farther on social media than its counterpart.
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Rapper Nipsey Hussle's death has become the subject of a baseless conspiracy theory.
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Then there was this internet-wide conspiracy theory about April the giraffe — a.k.a.
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So and famously Roseanne Barr believes in the whole QAnon conspiracy theory, right?
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Gaffney is perhaps one of the most prolific pushers of the conspiracy theory.
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Many other respondents share the same conspiracy theory in their answers, as well.
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It's ostensibly about this conspiracy theory, but really it's about something much deeper.
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I started trying to create sort of like a weird conspiracy theory chart.
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That President Donald Trump would buy into a conspiracy theory isn't a surprise.
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Some said the animatronic figure looked like Hillary Clinton, sparking a conspiracy theory.
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You have apparently removed one conspiracy theory video that is about David Hogg.
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Now there's a conspiracy theory that also has the benefit of being true.
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Instead, the tweet spun into the start of a secret relationship conspiracy theory.
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But the craziest thing about the conspiracy theory is that it has legs.
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No, but a conspiracy theory is gaining traction on Reddit alleging just that.
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Trump had suggested the same conspiracy theory last year before he took office.
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich amplified the conspiracy theory on Fox News Sunday.
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Even without Alex Jones, harmful conspiracy theory videos were running rampant on YouTube.
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Clicked a three-hour conspiracy theory video in the middle of the workday?
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Though Apple offering free keyboard repairs (also, albeit, tardily) contradicts that conspiracy theory.
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February 10, 1977, is a very important day in UFO conspiracy theory history.
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Mr Clinton offered one last explanation, spiced with a dose of conspiracy theory.
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Congratulations, Sean Hannity, you've officially come up with the shittiest conspiracy theory ever.
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And so Trump began his political career deploying the language of conspiracy theory.
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Parkland students become conspiracy theory targets, political social media influencers, and activists. 16.
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Rumor and conspiracy theory may swirl around his demise, like Sadr's, for years.
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There is no evidence that the conspiracy theory Trump retweeted has any merit.
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The Rich murder became fodder for a conspiracy theory in right-wing media.
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Remember that Trump's entire political life was birthed -- ahem -- by a conspiracy theory.
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Progressives and conservatives have their own reasons to support the Epstein conspiracy theory
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CLINTON: This conspiracy theory, which he's been spewing out for quite some time.
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And Oprah is not the only victim of QAnon's latest false conspiracy theory.
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You promote crazy conspiracy theory and shift burden of proof to your adversaries.
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Alt-Right conspiracy theory peddler Laura Loomer just crashed Jack Dorsey's Congressional testimony.
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But the conspiracy theory is useful to Trump on at least two levels.
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Rather, all it does is allow yet another vile conspiracy theory to spread.
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But in reality, that is a conspiracy theory that has been roundly debunked.
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" He added: "The media invented a conspiracy theory to distract from Acosta's behavior.
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If they hear otherwise, it must be because of a liberal conspiracy theory.
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Not everyone was buying the conspiracy theory about Roberta's on the message boards.
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DNC server, U.S. foreign policy was officially replaced by a conspiracy theory. As
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Trump, who resurrected a common hard-right conspiracy theory from the long-ago
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"They always like to say, 'Oh, that's a conspiracy theory,'" Mr. Trump said.
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If Mayor Giuliani wasn't promoting the D.N.C. server conspiracy theory, then I apologize.
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As with egoshoppe's #ReleaseTheJJCut conspiracy theory, JediPraxis's predictions meant one of three things.
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Every conspiracy theory needs a "them," the shadowy puppet master pulling the strings.
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" -- Supporting a conspiracy theory about wind farms: "They say the noise causes cancer.
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Conspiracy theory outlet Infowars is one strike away from being banned from YouTube.
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It can do better at discovering conspiracy-theory laden tweets and suppressing them.
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He also fomented birtherism, a conspiracy theory that Trump ultimately championed as well.
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The best predictor of believing in one conspiracy theory is believing in another.
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It's usually part of a bigger conspiracy theory, which we call super conspiracies.
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There are, of course, differences in the plausibility of any one conspiracy theory.
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The existence of a conspiracy theory as insane as QAnon thus explains itself.
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On Wednesday morning, President Trump — a man who rose to political prominence during the Obama years by pushing a conspiracy theory that America's first black president was a secret Muslim from Africa — denounced a conspiracy theory about his own wife.
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Some people did notice, however, and now they've whipped one truly bizarre conspiracy theory.
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HANNITY: If they -- if they advance a phony conspiracy theory about-- DIGENOVA: You bet.
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We made a similar diagram explaining the conspiracy theory around the Uranium One deal.
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But one of the oddest evolutions has been the mutation of the conspiracy theory.
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It started when we banned the community Pizzagate, which was a conspiracy-theory community.
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At least, according to one insane conspiracy theory making its way across the web.
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So how do fellow Republicans feel about their party leader peddling a conspiracy theory?
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"Q" represents QAnon, a conspiracy theory group that has been seen at recent rallies.
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TN: So here's why this matters: Trump is spreading an unproven conspiracy theory here.
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Nancy Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead: Conspiracy theory has always been part of political life.
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Jones is the host and force behind the conspiracy-theory-driven media outlet Infowars.
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It has become just as important as "false flag" in the conspiracy theory lexicon.
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Shout out to all the folks taking this as a face value conspiracy theory.
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Trevor Bauer denied writing a conspiracy theory on the pitcher's mound during Tuesday's game.
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Mike Flynn, Trump's pick for national security adviser, embraced the fake news conspiracy theory.
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But the conspiracy theory was debunked even before Stone was arrested on January 25.
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Well, maybe there is something to that "all-controlling establishment" conspiracy theory after all.
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Once Grande caught wind of the conspiracy theory, she decided to respond via Twitter.
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"The refs were totally biased against us!" is nothing if not a conspiracy theory.
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Mike Flynn, sought to defend the conspiracy theory with a perfectly impenetrable logical fallacy.
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But by now it is clear that Mr Trump's conspiracy theory has things backwards.
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The president spun an unfounded conspiracy theory that has become increasingly hard to track.
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Obama begrudgingly proved this conspiracy theory false by releasing his long form birth certificate.
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An aide to a Florida lawmaker was also fired after promoting the conspiracy theory.
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This bright blue shade is named after a conspiracy theory known as "Chem Trails."
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"Just a Theory" is the color of Dawson's shirt in his conspiracy theory videos.
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Trump floated the baseless conspiracy theory during the same July phone call with Zelensky.
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However, Brexit did not cause the rise of similar amorphous, conspiracy-theory-loving movements.
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YouTube will now begin displaying links to fact-based content alongside conspiracy theory videos.
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And in February, Wheeler retweeted Jack Posobiec, who helped spread the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory.
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DeLonge has long been dipping in and out of the UFO conspiracy theory community.
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Another viewer tweeted a conspiracy theory board joking about trying to solve this mystery.
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This conspiracy theory is, it turns out, a staple of neo-Nazis in Europe.
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His "MOON LANDING CONSPIRACY THEORY" video has been viewed more than seven million times.
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For some, the changes have fueled talk about "white replacement," a racist conspiracy theory.
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The propaganda campaign was denounced as a shocking promotion of a ludicrous conspiracy theory.
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Pous thinks Munoz is only peddling this conspiracy theory to sell a new book.
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The followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory now have their very own super PAC.
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It is difficult to ever know what reportage might feed into a conspiracy theory.
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Trump's tweet promoting the conspiracy theory came about an hour after Florida Republican Sen.
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Some accuse Russia of spreading this conspiracy theory, though the Kremlin strenuously denies it.
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When we can't hide behind morality or religion there is always a conspiracy theory.
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"The CIA did it" This is the conspiracy theory that interests Perry the most.
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He also embraced a Russian-backed conspiracy theory that shifted the blame to Ukraine.
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The conspiracy theory soon went viral, with others jumping on board on social media.
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He also shared a conspiracy theory that Obama made a pro-ISIS hand gesture.
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Finally, how has the conspiracy theory that the moon landing was a hoax persisted?
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This whole Russia election conspiracy has been an insane conspiracy theory from the getgo.
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Most succinctly, we call it conspiracy theory, and it has long been with us.
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They were pages printed from Hopelessly Partisan, an obscure right-wing conspiracy theory website.
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But if anything, support among Republican legislators for the conspiracy theory continues to grow.
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The Ukraine conspiracy theory dates back to 2016 and may have originated in Russia.
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This conspiracy theory gets really complicated, and Trump uses the confusion to his advantage.
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According to 4plebs, the 43chan community excitedly talked about the conspiracy theory all summer.
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In addition to promoting the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, he has contended that the Sept.
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Two state officials Ward had invited shot down the conspiracy theory at the meeting.
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And as WikiLeaks began promoting its most interesting documents, a conspiracy theory was born.
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"911" refers to a conspiracy theory casting blame on Jewish people for the Sept.
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An earlier version of this article misidentified the origin of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
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But we've known for a long time that Trump is a conspiracy theory aficionado.
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Just a silly conspiracy theory, latched onto by an attention seeker who has a peculiar penchant for them," he wrote, referring to Trump's involvement in the conspiracy theory that former President Obama was born outside the U.S. "The white supremacists' march in Charlottesville?
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After all, we know that Trump crafted his political persona in large part on a debunked conspiracy theory (that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States) and that he has spent his presidency swimming in conspiracy theory waters joyfully.
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Corsi pushed the "birther" conspiracy theory that falsely alleged Obama was not born in America.
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Before the Hammonds, it was Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative writer, conspiracy theory enthusiast, and troll.
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In particular, Infowars' Jones circulated the conspiracy theory that Clinton was merely Soros's sock puppet.
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Of course, nobody should believe every wacky celeb conspiracy theory that flies across their feed.
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At first, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, thought it an unlikely conspiracy theory.
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He has called the Ukraine impeachment inquiry a conspiracy theory to take down the President.
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On Twitter, the line between genuine conspiracy theory and trollish gag is just as vague.
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The conspiracy theory behind Frazzledrip is this, as "explained" on the fake news website YourNewsWire.
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Read the incredible story of how they manufactured the narrative that became a conspiracy theory.
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Is that propagation by exposure something that you've seen before in your conspiracy theory research?
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That conspiracy theory, Warren noted, appeared to have been sparked by the Russian accounts themselves.
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The documents put Trump and Giuliani's political conspiracy theory into the official US government bloodstream.
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E;R's personal Gab account features comments about the "Jewish Question," a hateful conspiracy theory.
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One prominent conspiracy theory revolved around the claim that the fire had been deliberately started.
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Trump's use of conspiracy theory politics proved to be a particularly ingenious form of populism.
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There's more evidence debunking the conspiracy theory that your iPhone is secretly listening to you.
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The QAnon conspiracy theory rolls other new conspiracy theories into it on a regular basis.
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This photo, as just one example from the conspiracy theory site InfoWars, is totally fake.
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This would disprove Kavanaugh's conspiracy theory that the claims against him are a political sham.
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Giving a wink and a nod to this long-debunked "spying" conspiracy theory is irresponsible.
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It's a common conspiracy theory among conservatives that social media companies are suppressing their speech.
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A conspiracy theory subreddit devoted to President Donald Trump is apparently writing our legislation now.
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Apple yesterday confirmed that a long-held and controversial conspiracy theory actually contains some truth.
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The resulting QAnon conspiracy theory states that Trump is not under investigation by Robert Mueller.
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Trump also asks the Ukrainian to investigate the conspiracy theory about the 2016 U.S. election.
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"The police called 'Pizzagate' a fictitious conspiracy theory tonight," Tapper wrote to the younger Flynn.
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Later in the afternoon, Hannity continued to push the conspiracy theory during his radio show.
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And, in an early sign of things to come, he toyed with a conspiracy theory.
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Memes had been made, Chrissy Teigan got involved, and a new conspiracy theory was born.
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"You're only going to have violence if the conspiracy theory identifies the target," Beirich said.
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What would have been a conspiracy theory in 2012 is now far easier to prove.
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Jones, the troll king who runs the site Infowars, is an infamous conspiracy theory-monger.
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It has nothing to do with content management or DRM — that's pure, paranoid conspiracy theory.
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The woman behind a series of videos pushing a conspiracy theory about Broward County, Fla.
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The hacking collective Anonymous is pledging to expose the people behind the "QAnon" conspiracy theory.
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This is the sort of thing that happens in conspiracy-theory movies, not on InfoWars.
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This is not the first time Trump has propelled a conspiracy theory with no evidence.
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Arthur: Anyway, you wandered right into my behavioral science world with that conspiracy theory comment.
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Giving a wink and a nod to this long-debunked 'spying' conspiracy theory is irresponsible.
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Signs promoting the "QAnon" conspiracy theory appeared Friday at a pro-Brexit march in London.
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Corsi was asked about his support for that conspiracy theory during an interview with Hill.
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He had also promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which accuses Hillary Clinton of human trafficking.
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In subsequent television appearances, Hannity defended Trump and other supporters of the birther conspiracy theory.
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It's hard out there for conspiracy-theory peddling, dietary-supplement hawking, tormentors of grieving parents.
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In 85033, he renounced the conspiracy theory, saying Obama was born in the United States.
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" Photo credit: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters "They always like to say, 'Oh, that's a conspiracy theory.
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"YouTube news" rarely gets coverage in mainstream press, the odd Marina Joyce conspiracy theory aside.
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Infowars and Brietbart got a lot of mileage this week out of a conspiracy theory.
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Instead it's a "he said, he said" with a bit of conspiracy theory thrown in.
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More Americans than ever believe in the baseless conspiracy theory that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.
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What Is QAnon: Explaining the Internet Conspiracy Theory That Showed Up at a Trump Rally
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Do they still not believe you, or do they continue to believe their conspiracy theory?
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It's not a surprise that people think this conspiracy theory that is listening to you.
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NOT DonaldTrump Fox News anchors are also responsible for promoting the racist "invasion" conspiracy theory.
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It's a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.
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The more a conspiracy theory is publicized, the more it becomes harder to stamp out.
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QAnon is a pro-Trump conspiracy theory about "deep state" traitors plotting against the president.
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Like, the New York Times and the Washington Post may not cover whatever conspiracy theory.
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Similarly, there's a conspiracy theory circulating that the virus escaped from a Wuhan research lab.
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Another debunks the false conspiracy theory that the novel coronavirus was a man-made virus.
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The conspiracy theory implicates Ukrainian American DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa and California cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
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Meanwhile, his wife is raising money off an easily disproven conspiracy theory about CNN's coverage.
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Some elements of the QAnon conspiracy theory — secret elites, kidnapped children — are classic, even archetypical.
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The company began adding Wikipedia links below conspiracy theory videos to help people recognize them.
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One of these requested probes concerned a discredited conspiracy theory that Sekulow repeated on Friday.
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Cain represents countless individuals who are now subscribed to extremist or conspiracy theory-related content.
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After saying that Robert was "like a brother" to him, Simpson addressed the conspiracy theory.
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They then distributed the documents on Twitter, a US conspiracy theory website, and blogging sites.
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And so, whatever conspiracy theory they're dreaming up, it's more of just their Watergate fantasies.
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But both the DNC and CrowdStrike have issued formal statements plainly rebutting the conspiracy theory.
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It has a meandering, if amusing, fantastical conspiracy-theory plot that seems beside the point.
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They know the conspiracy theory, but they spend most of their time on other subreddits.
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Trump has also been touting a version of this conspiracy theory at his campaign events.
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That's absolutely right, because of a particular conspiracy theory surrounding lawyers that they believe in.
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There's a conspiracy theory going around the internet right now that Jameela Jamil has Munchausen syndrome.
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I wrote about QAnon last year, when the conspiracy theory first gained attention in mainstream circles.
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Now, it seems, Trump may have landed on a conspiracy theory that has equal staying power.
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"Expose 9-1-1," another person exclaimed, apparently in reference to a 9/11 conspiracy theory.
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After his arrest, the man wrote letters to Trump and others citing the QAnon conspiracy theory.
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Fox News in particular devoted outsize attention to the Rich story, repeatedly rehashing the conspiracy theory.
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The Middle East's thriving conspiracy theory industry also means there are alternative rationales for the attacks.
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Forget you ever heard a delusional uncle share his latest counterfactual conspiracy theory on Hillary Clinton.
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That's part of enjoying a conspiracy theory — you just know it can't be confirmed or denied.
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We'd seen Trump's political stripes when he was cheerleading the birther conspiracy theory four years earlier.
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The idea simply sounds like a conspiracy theory, based on the information in the ICE memo.
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These sorts of conspiracy theory illustrations are nothing new, and in fact date back some time.
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The company allegedly hired a political research firm to spread a conspiracy theory about its critics.
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In real life and, more noticeably, on Twitter, she's a conspiracy theory-loving, racist every-troll.
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After World War II and the creation of the state of Israel, the conspiracy theory shifted.
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Even the lack of a denial can be taken as evidence to strengthen the conspiracy theory.
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YouTube is rolling out some tools to help viewers distinguish between a conspiracy theory and fact.
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But online, the conspiracy theory about Mr. Vindman as a foreign agent has begun to spread.
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Shane Dawson dropped a new conspiracy theory video on his second channel ShaneGlossin on Wednesday night.
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Yet another Republican official is out there pushing a long-debunked conspiracy theory about Minnesota Rep.
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Brew Crew Ball cites this tweet as the first to galvanize momentum for the conspiracy theory.
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By now you've probably heard the wild conspiracy theory about Avril Lavigne that resurfaced this week.
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Unlike racism or anti-gay sentiment, anti-Semitism is not simple hatred; it's a conspiracy theory.
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You don't need a conspiracy theory to see that just now the world's mood is troubled.■
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YouTube can't figure out what constitutes a conspiracy theory or how to properly fact-check it.
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"It's every conspiracy theory built into one," NBC News reporter Ben Collins, who covers QAnon, said.
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The Narativ post is far from the first Trump-Russia conspiracy theory to be put forward.
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Or West 4 Tattoo in NYC just makes bank selling the design to conspiracy theory saps.
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What is the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, if not the Satanic Panic dressed up in 2010s clothing?
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Not because they personally profit from the bombs dropping or some other InfoWars conspiracy theory bullshit.
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On top of the new labels, YouTube may also make changes to address conspiracy theory videos.
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The "alt-right" belief that whites are a persecuted minority, she argued, is a conspiracy theory.
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The senator said that he had heard the conspiracy theory from many people, including his staffers.
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There's a conspiracy theory around that, too, involving Walt Disney himself and one of his vices.
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First, you'll have to convince your friends that you haven't fallen for some wacky conspiracy theory.
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Yet Trump, the actual Republican candidate for president, is trying to bring back this conspiracy theory.
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And many of them find there's nothing more shocking and unusual than a good conspiracy theory.
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Let's remove the tinfoil hat and we can return to the less conspiracy theory-themed conversation.
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The flip side: Cernovich spearheaded the 'Pizzagate' conspiracy theory and claimed that Hillary Clinton had Parkinson's.
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Conspiracy theory has always been with us, and it has always been the realm of cranks.
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The "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory emerged after WikiLeaks released emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta.
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Trump launched his political career by embracing a racist conspiracy theory about America's first black president.
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And there's the conspiracy theory, I mean realistic possibility, that Arie himself could be in attendance.
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It's near impossible to summarize the entire QAnon conspiracy theory, as it's fluid and ever-changing.
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The announcement follows a series of tweets in which Flynn Jr. fanned the #Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
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The problem with this conspiracy theory is that, like most conspiracy theories, it makes no sense.
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It's time to put this "flat Earth" conspiracy theory to an end, once and for all.
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According to one conspiracy theory, the Egyptian uprising of 2011 was manipulated throughout by the generals.
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The only question that could really drag this conspiracy theory asunder is the biggest question: why?
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The conspiracy theory that is anti-Semitism has many parts and works in many different ways.
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The Seth Rich conspiracy theory in short, alleged that Seth Rich was a supporter of Sen.
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Every conspiracy theory you have heard from Rachel Maddow and CNN is thrown into this warrant.
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Trump fired Flynn's son for tweeting about the child sex-trafficking conspiracy theory earlier this week.
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But it is, undoubtedly, a strange enough photo to launch a new conspiracy theory or two.
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Eater has discovered a conspiracy theory so delightful, you'll want to gobble the whole thing up.
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DealBook At first, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, thought it an unlikely conspiracy theory.
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The President has been peddling a conspiracy theory that the FBI spied on his 2016 campaign.
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Based on a conspiracy theory, it represented an expensive and unpopular investigation of a non-issue.
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Strap in for a new political conspiracy theory involving Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and ... Disney World?
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"I have created so many jobs in the sort of conspiracy-theory machine factory," she said.
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"As I have said repeatedly, no credible evidence supports this right-wing conspiracy theory," Nadler continued.
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In December 2016, a man motivated by the conspiracy theory fired a gun in the business.
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Both witnesses slammed the conspiracy theory promoting the idea that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election.
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Psychologists point to a combination of miseducation and narcissism as risk factors for conspiracy theory belief.
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Some on the right are really ratcheting things up on the secret government conspiracy theory front.
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For instance, Dawson has created several conspiracy theory-related videos over the past couple of years.
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In 2013, he called the massacre "staged" and continued to stoke his conspiracy theory for years.
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Apple was forced to remove an app promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory after a media inquiry.
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" Mr. Momani, the government spokesman, described those claims as "an extreme version of a conspiracy theory.
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"Are we living in a golden age of conspiracy theory?" the Boston Globe wondered in 2004.
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It's the "dawn of a new age of conspiracy theory," the Washington Post declared in 1994.
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Add that to the reddit sleuthing and we've got a little conspiracy theory on our hands.
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The obvious conspiracy theory is ... Meg, or her wardrobe team, is planning to return the dress.
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A conspiracy theory feeds on the latter, spreading radical ideologies that capitalize on feelings of insecurity.
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Other users kept the conspiracy theory — that the Democratic establishment did not want to help Sen.
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The real question is how much noise does Trump want to make over this conspiracy theory?
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Trump was not the only official in his administration to promote the Epstein-Clintons conspiracy theory.
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The digital hierarchy has sparked a conspiracy theory about why Harry and Meghan can't catch up.
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In fact, he believes a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting Ukraine, not Russia, broke into the DNC.
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It's not easy to reason with a conspiracy-theory believer, let alone hordes of them online.
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But Barr could find himself in the awkward position of debunking his boss's favorite conspiracy theory.
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Giuliani himself went on Fox News Friday morning and pushed a conspiracy theory as a defense.
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WASHINGTON — The first version of the conspiracy theory was hatched on Twitter last Friday, Jan. 10.
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Yet this Trump election conspiracy theory has dominated the Democratic Party's narrative for more than year.
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In conversations with police, Jones said that he believed the conspiracy theory about Comet Ping Pong.
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Facts are less important than desperately clinging to a disproven conspiracy theory that keeps Trump happy.
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In their mania to attack the President, no conspiracy theory is too outlandish for the Democrats.
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Horowitz debunked a conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump invented weeks after taking office in 2017.
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Because the conspiracy theory Cotton spun to conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt is, well, dumb.
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Trump grew out of the political right, including Fox News and the false "birther" conspiracy theory.
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Shoppers with a yen for a conspiracy theory or a taste of history may be, too.
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The data on Apple slowing down older iPhones doesn't necessarily mean the conspiracy theory is true.
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This community, however, has turned an internet conspiracy theory into a live-action role-playing game.
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In 2013, Jones called the massacre "staged" and continued to stoke his conspiracy theory for years.
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That's why we won't see a concise chart like this used to peddle this conspiracy theory.
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It's hard to overstate how unprecedented that is: The president of the United States just directed the secretary of state to look into a racist conspiracy theory he saw on Fox News — a conspiracy theory that is a major talking point for white nationalists and neo-Nazis.
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This time, however, the President's conspiracy theory comes less than two weeks after a news report revealed an FBI intelligence bulletin from the bureau's Phoenix, Arizona office (and obtained by Yahoo News) warning that "conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists" should be considered as potential terrorist threats.
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More than 22015 people ended up in prison because of a conspiracy theory alleging mass Satanic ritual sexual abuse taking place in day care facilities in the 29s — a conspiracy theory that held sway within police departments across the country and even in New Zealand and Canada.
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"At its heart, this is just a wacky conspiracy theory," climate scientist Andrew Dessler told the outlet.
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The protesters were defending the debunked conspiracy theory that linked Hillary Clinton to a sex-trafficking ring.
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Oh, and make sure you stay for the conspiracy theory about the last dab at the end.
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And just like any good conspiracy theory, the systematic disenfranchisement of white guys makes it to Hollywood.
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The conspiracy theory makes no sense," Comey writes... But "go ahead, investigate the investigators, if you must.
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In another instance, CNN host Chris Cuomo debunked a conspiracy theory pushed by Jordan in two minutes.
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And what happened, apparently, is she was responding to something from a conspiracy theory website-- HARF: Right.
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It seems when something major happens in the gold market there's a conspiracy theory not far behind.
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OK, here goes: Pikachu is dead & was replaced by a look alike: a conspiracy theory thread pic.twitter.
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These edits were on the section of the page that covered his comments about the conspiracy theory.
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And again, it's not ... but your conspiracy theory was there was some ultimate outside force driving it.
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Stop Wasting My Time With This Stupid Planet X Doomsday Conspiracy Theory BullshitHoly shit, stop, please stop.
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However, the reality of those creepy targeted ads is perhaps even more unnerving than the conspiracy theory.
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To borrow conspiracy-theory terminology, the media shitstorm around this weekend's meetups is a false-flag operation.
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A version of the image had appeared on conspiracy theory websites, including one called Americans for Innovation.
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To ask how you know she even exists approaches conspiracy-theory lizard-people in its ridiculousness. Obviously.
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This conspiracy theory, as Slate's Tom Scocca pointed out, gives the Democratic Party far too much credit.
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Most of the media labels it a conspiracy theory, but that doesn't quite cut it for me.
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Both have painted liberal fixation on Russian influence as a conspiracy theory absolving them of 2016 sins.
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This exposure opened the door to TV specials, to murder podcasts, to long conspiracy theory YouTube videos.
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Stein denied the claim and called Clinton's assertion a "completely unhinged conspiracy theory" on CNN's "Smerconish" Saturday.
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The Clinton-targeted viral "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory also combines bizarre claims of Satanic rituals with child abuse.
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NS: If we take the casino conspiracy theory to the next level, you have to win sometimes.
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There's a popular/fake conspiracy-theory-turned-meme that Ted Cruz is, in fact, the Zodiac Killer.
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The term comes from the conspiracy theory that Jewish people maintain financial control of the global economy.
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After all, why does the president of the United States need to read a conspiracy theory website?
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Chemtrails are not "biological agents deliberately sprayed" by "government officials," despite what the popular conspiracy theory touts.
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His entire political life was begun amid a debunked conspiracy theory about former President Barack Obama's birthplace.
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The moon landing conspiracy — or really any other truly compelling conspiracy theory — won't go away anytime soon.
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Hers is a conspiracy theory that would be best placed in a soap opera or reddit forum.
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A Clinton campaign press secretary called Trump's claim a "deranged right-wing conspiracy theory," the report said.
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The best way to analyze "Spygate" is not as a partisan dispute, but rather a conspiracy theory.
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As The Daily Show's Trevor Noah and many others have explained, the entire conspiracy theory is dumb.
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In some corners of America, there's a conspiracy theory that the Newtown Elementary School massacre never happened.
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Mueller's team looked into the conspiracy theory and concluded it was malicious nonsense peddled by Julian Assange.
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Right-wing media has latched onto the conspiracy theory as evidence that Trump didn't collude with Russia.
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Tweets and Facebook posts from U.S. conspiracy theory accounts said drinking bleach could protect against the virus.
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As much as he denies saying that Sandy Hook didn't happen, he did promote that conspiracy theory.
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Other employees said that coverage of the conspiracy theory affected the entire network, not just Hannity's show.
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Indeed, in most circles of respectable opinion, the very phrase conspiracy theory is used as a pejorative.
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He's Hiding In Cuba With Assata ShakurThis conspiracy theory is perhaps the most dreamy of them all.
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"Who is responsible for 9/11?" can be pointed to George Bush, a widely held conspiracy theory.
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Yes, but: The people in this study were confronted with a conspiracy theory they were unfamiliar with.
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More broadly, each additional argument against the conspiracy theory ultimately becomes fodder for it, according to Lewandowsky.
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The ancient Greeks, of course, did not have laptops, but the Internet loves a good conspiracy theory.
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For once, Donald Trump finds himself mired in a conspiracy theory that's not of his own making.
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Previously, if a user watched one conspiracy theory-related video, YouTube would recommend a host of others.
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A Florida bookseller who openly follows the "QAnon" conspiracy theory is running for a Florida House seat.
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You could put some of his claims about Hillary Clinton into the conspiracy theory bin, as well.
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Did Kavanaugh and White House operatives know that Whelan was going to pitch this conspiracy theory dreck?
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Many who pushed the claim took his jokes as admissions, which only further fueled the conspiracy theory.
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Trump also asked Zelensky to look into the conspiracy theory alleging Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.
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"He has always adamantly denied any involvement in their conspiracy theory," Todd said in a phone interview.
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Perhaps Nunes genuinely believes he's the victim of a conspiracy theory by Democrats and America's foreign adversaries.
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The anonymous propagator of that bizarre conspiracy theory, "Q," posts on 83chan using a unique "trip code".
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Vargas's conspiracy theory about "Melania" gained traction almost immediately, and it's not that difficult to see why.
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Instead, it fanned this year's conspiracy theory du jour: that Clinton is secretly in very poor health.
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A New Jersey mayor who boosted a debunked conspiracy theory about the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
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A South Carolina state lawmaker has promoted the "QAnon" conspiracy theory online, the Daily Beast reported Thursday.
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Further, it seems that some humans out there will believe any conspiracy theory you present to them.
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The New York Times reported that Trump was still raising that conspiracy theory as recently as November.
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CW: Their reflex is sort of like the president's, to sort of go after a conspiracy theory.
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He eventually started creating exclusively conspiracy theory content, which have sometimes received hundreds of thousands of views.
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The Flatbush Zombies, who occasionally lapse into conspiracy theory, felt perfectly at home during their Sunday slot.
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On Maher's show, the host sided with Gordon, endorsing a conspiracy theory that vaccines can cause autism.
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Yet the "Jeffrey Epstein was murdered" conspiracy theory persists, in part bolstered by President Donald Trump himself.
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Also, because of the dangers of fake news, it's easier for people to endorse a conspiracy theory.
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He also referred to an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory involving Joe Scarborough, host of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC.
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What have you heard from people who believe in this conspiracy theory, since your study came out?
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You could call it all a wild-eyed conspiracy theory, only there's no real theory behind it.
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The Rich family would eventually sue Fox News unsuccessfully for its efforts to spread the conspiracy theory.
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A new conspiracy theory called Qanon, for instance, has been gaining traction outside of Mr. Jones's sphere.
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It's a conspiracy theory in which Jews play the starring role in spreading evil in the world.
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Trump pushed a quick-moving conspiracy theory online that maybe the Clintons, his old nemeses, were involved.
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The white genocide concept, like any other racist conspiracy theory, is offensive, illogical and above all, false.
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What's obviously really going on here: Chris Carter spends all of his time reading conspiracy theory subreddits.
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President Trump led the charge, retweeting a conspiracy theory that sought to implicate former President Bill Clinton.
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Specifically, they focus on a conspiracy theory regarding the Hungarian-born Jewish investor: that he's a Nazi.
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Critics have long chastised YouTube for allowing these harmful conspiracy theory videos to proliferate on its platform.
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But it also unleashed the Biden/Burisma conspiracy theory more effectively than Trump could ever have imagined.
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Again: As a description of religion and politics today, the Bannon-Burke alliance is a conspiracy theory.
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He's even promoted the conspiracy theory, floated by Trump, that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
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Italy's government slides into chaos, President Trump pushes another conspiracy theory and France celebrates its Spider-Man.
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Selling itself as a free speech zone, r/Wuhan_flu traffics in unvetted information, conspiracy theory, and paranoia.
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The second investigation centered on a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting Ukraine interfered in the 2016 US election.
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The conspiracy theory is long and messy, so I'll let you read it on your own time.
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He also pressured Zelensky to launch an inquiry into a debunked conspiracy theory on the 2016 election.
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Conspiracy theory maniacs don't need facts -- they need to whip up passion and earn points on it.
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Other videos from the same YouTube user spreading the same conspiracy theory are still live on YouTube.
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For example, there's overlap with men's rights groups, gaming groups, cryptocurrency groups, and other conspiracy theory groups.
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Trump, Fox News, and Twitter have created a dangerous conspiracy theory loop Alice Johnson deserved a commutation.
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In doing so, the DOJ also finally put a long-running conspiracy theory out of its misery.
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YouTube has removed conspiracy theory videos that made it to the top of the site's trending section.
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Oh, that's right, you probably can't recall that because Melania actually joined in on the conspiracy theory herself!
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Think of him of a conspiracy theory equivalent of early political bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan or Josh Marshall.
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Trump has a long history of antagonizing China, ranging from economic criticism to a full-blown conspiracy theory.
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That makes accepting that a conspiracy theory is bogus feel like admitting there is something wrong with you.
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And if everybody is lying to us, then, well, that does start to sound like a conspiracy theory.
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Photo: GettyAlex Jones and his conspiracy theory empire InfoWars have officially been booted from Apple, Facebook, and YouTube.
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He cited bogus statistics, aiming to back up the racist conspiracy theory that Jews have undue political influence.
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Many Twitter users, including a fake Julian Assange account, are pushing the false conspiracy theory without any evidence.
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No, sir, you can't withhold military aid if the Ukrainians don't embrace a nitty right-wing conspiracy theory.
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It is true that Russian bots are a conspiracy theory that provides a tidy explanation for complicated developments.
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It is not only those who turn up at Mr Trump's rallies who like an aggressive conspiracy theory.
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He was at the center of a conspiracy theory that the Parkland students were, in fact, paid actors.
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We need the antics of celebrities and the thrill of harmless conspiracy theory to keep our blood pumping.
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But his denial of Shakespeare's authorship is founded on a conspiracy theory that no reputable Shakespeare scholar countenances.
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" Stein denied the claim on CNN's "Smerconish" on Saturday and called Clinton's assertion a "completely unhinged conspiracy theory.
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However, to a certain type of person, particularly older internet users, the conspiracy theory isn't so far-fetched.
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In February, Williams addressed the internet-born conspiracy theory that Melania Trump was slighting Donald Trump in public.
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"It's the president's favorite conspiracy theory about the Kennedy assassination ... but I don't think there is," Shenon said.
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Giuliani wouldn't be the first person involved in the Trump team to spout conspiracy theory bullshit on Twitter.
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Facebook also stopped a fake news story that propagated a popular conspiracy theory about September 229th from trending.
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The conspiracy theory-broadcasting app was banned last year because it published videos that included threats to reporters.
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Trump will become the nominee at the convention and any conspiracy theory arguing otherwise is just plain silly.
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" Clinton added, "I believe I have created so many jobs in the sort of conspiracy theory machine factory.
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B., who set Twitter aflame earlier this week with his conspiracy theory that the Earth is actually flat.
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So this conspiracy theory has rocketed around the conservative internet, passing from one conservative Facebook user to another.
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Trump did not supply any evidence to back up his claim of who was behind the conspiracy theory.
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Conspiracy theory sites have had a field day with the footage, claiming that it's proof positive of giants.
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Groups dedicated to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory QAnon thrive on Facebook, as do communities that oppose vaccination.
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At one point, the the No. 1 trending spot on YouTube was a crisis actor conspiracy theory video.
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Trump supporters at a rally in Tampa on Tuesday show their support for a wacky online conspiracy theory.
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A conspiracy theory inaccurately casted Hogg as a crisis actor and not actually a student at the school.
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Every conspiracy theory needs one of these to refer back to as a kind of digital holy text.
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The former head of criminal investigations for the Washington, D.C., police, poured fuel on the conspiracy theory fire.
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Trump's tweet also seemed to hint at a conspiracy theory embraced by his most ardent right-wing supporters.
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There's nothing like a good conspiracy theory to really set off an extremely odd and unexpected internet trend.
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For his part, Trump pushed the conspiracy theory that Snipes was single-handedly working to undermine the election.
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Of course, she's also wrong when she blames the Russians, misogyny, or whatever conspiracy theory of the moment.
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When Facebook gave us conspiracy theory listicles from angry relatives, Vine gave us an army of sighing ducks.
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A conspiracy theory began to circulate that Buhari had actually died and been replaced by a Sudanese imposter.
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Pardon 1 -- Arpaio was an early Trump backer and aided in pushing the conspiracy theory about Obama's birthplace.
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Trump sought to pursue the debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections.
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Americans love a good conspiracy theory, and none more than the mysteries surrounding the assassination of former Pres.
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The conspiracy theory this most resembles is probably the speculation surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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No one sees the conspiracy theory except him and the people in the room where he is speaking.
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Another Deep State conspiracy theory hyped by President Donald Trump and his Republican allies has withered under scrutiny.
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And this isn't the first time that an NBA player has latched on to a wild conspiracy theory.
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Reddit has banned a forum dedicated to the QAnon conspiracy theory, saying users repeatedly violated its content policies.
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He also floated a conspiracy theory that the National Security Agency had the 33,000 deleted emails from Mrs.
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Barr's use of the term triggered massive protest from Democrats, who viewed it as legitimizing a conspiracy theory.
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But even if Mr. Trump's conspiracy theory sounds similar to Mr. Erdogan's, there is still a significant difference.
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This conspiracy theory is so pernicious — and arises with such frequency — that it's almost treated as common knowledge.
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Verdict: False, but Facebook's transcriptions of Messenger voice chats and Portal commands have only reignited this conspiracy theory.
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The conspiracy theory has been shared by some figures on the right, including Roseanne Barr and Alex Jones.
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Others call him a dangerous conspiracy theory-pusher who thinks the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
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And the idea that fluoride is a mind control drug is a conspiracy theory with a long history.
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The big picture: A conspiracy theory that started in fringe online chatrooms has leaped to major political events.
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Making Aya the first assassin means that she is the first person to put that conspiracy theory together.
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" The Clinton campaign called Trump's plan to pin the allegations on Slim "another deranged right-wing conspiracy theory.
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Almost all of them acknowledged seeing conspiracy theory videos on YouTube and many said they enjoyed watching them.
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There is no evidence that crowdsourced platforms like YouTube, Facebook or Reddit have stoked belief in conspiracy theory.
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He probably never imagined that he would one day become a leading figure in the conspiracy theory scene.
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The president also appears to be embracing another conspiracy theory that those protesting against Kavanaugh are being paid.
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Larry Bucshon asked Zuckerberg about a very popular conspiracy theory, that Facebook listens to people through their microphone.
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In 2016, he accused Obama of hating Israel and pushed the false conspiracy theory that Obama is Muslim.
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Trump also asked Zelensky to look into a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election.
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In between, he spread a baseless conspiracy theory about massive election fraud costing him the state in 252.
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This is the President propagating a conspiracy theory, and undermining faith in American democracy, for no good reason.
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Another would have been aimed at examining a debunked conspiracy theory over election interference in the 2016 election.
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Kavanaugh also joined in on this conspiracy theory, saying it was revenge for his work against the Clintons.
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In 2015, he shared a video promoting the conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama is a Muslim.
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The story covers how the website has grappled with problems like the PizzaGate conspiracy theory and Russian manipulation.
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The graffiti is widely believed to reference an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews were behind the Sept.
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There's no evidence of this, but it didn't stop Trump from tweeting this conspiracy theory on January 17.
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In November, Putin indicated his pleasure that Trump and right-wing politicians had picked up the conspiracy theory.
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His tweets have become less discerning about which far-right conspiracy theory he's referencing at a given time.
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Trump also pressured Zelensky to launch an inquiry into a debunked conspiracy theory linked to the 2016 election.
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The first, which may take the form of any manner of distraction or conspiracy theory, is: Go whistle.
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Again, Trump has adopted a conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind meddling in the 2016 election.
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He promoted a conspiracy theory that Jews were helping transport members of the migrant caravans in Central America.
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Just saying that a conspiracy theory is false, for example, still continues the story through the information ecosystem.
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He pretty much made the perfect candidate for a bonkers conspiracy theory about a decades-old serial killer.
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We get home and watch a random conspiracy theory show on Netflix while eating our curry and naan.
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Solomon rolled out an anti-Biden conspiracy theory... the feedback loop kept looping... and it ultimately ensnared Trump.
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Saudi Arabia's critics are "delving into conspiracy theory territory," one consultant hired by the kingdom told The Hill.
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Burr wasn't the only Republican who put weight behind the conspiracy theory or refused to knock it down.
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He also asked Zelensky to look into a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election.
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Despite the government's backing, the chip remains a polarizing subject, and the source of conspiracy theory and speculation.
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Trump was an early public proponent of the debunked conspiracy theory that Obama was not an American citizen.
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The conspiracy theory, the deep state, the global council of Jewish people who are out to get us.
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Once they firmly start to believe in one specific conspiracy theory, it opens the door to many others.
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President Trump decided, on Monday morning, to advance a conspiracy theory about forged ballots in Florida on Twitter.
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Trump's claims to the opposite are nothing more than a conspiracy theory intended to make Clinton look bad.
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This suits Trump's style; his willingness to repeat whatever he's heard has often led him into conspiracy theory.
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The conspiracy theory had cooled until recently when a local Fox broadcast affiliate posted a story quoting a private investigator (who is also a Fox News contributor) as saying he was aware of evidence that Rich had been a source for WikiLeaks — a key part of the previous conspiracy theory.
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"New conspiracy theory," the founder wrote, "note we make no apologies for being aggressive in the battle against cyberthreats."
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Reading about a conspiracy theory is "not unlike [watching] an M. Night Shyamalan movie in the theater," he says.
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That video was first shared by a right-wing commentator associated with conspiracy theory website Infowars, the Post reported.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, that could be a conspiracy theory, I don&apost know if anyone stepped on the moon.
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The conspiracy theory naturally thrived online, where people posted mocking videos and posts questioning whether the snack contained plastic.
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Most recently, it helped promote the Seth Rich murder conspiracy theory, which eventually found its way to Sean Hannity.
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MillerCoors' attorneys called Pabst's claim a conspiracy theory and said the company was simply deciding what makes economic sense.
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A conspiracy theory requires some specific conditions to thrive, and you'll find all of them in the current climate.
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The tweets allude to a conspiracy theory which credits President Donald Trump with breaking up child sex-trafficking rings.
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At the time, Trump was perpetuating the conspiracy theory, which there has never been any evidence for to corroborate.
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The channel carried reuploaded live streams from Jones' deleted Infowars channel and included new conspiracy theory videos as well.
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Like the discredited Pizzagate conspiracy theory, QAnon also involves regular accusations against public figures of being involved in pedophilia.
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Cryptic clues posted on the 4chan and 8chan message boards, signed "Q," are the fuel for the conspiracy theory.
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Especially because that whim is wholly based on a conspiracy theory for which there is zero evidence or proof.
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The essence of a conspiracy theory is a painful, maddening gap between the official story and the secret truth.
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But as the Pizzagate shooting shows, while not every voice participating in Pizzagate believes the conspiracy theory, some do.
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Some theories are far-fetched, but sometimes the dots and patterns that support a conspiracy theory prove the charge.
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That fact is also exploited by anti-Semites as evidence for their conspiracy theory that Jews are universal oppressors.
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President Trump retweeted a baseless conspiracy theory linking Epstein's death to Bill and Hillary Clinton shortly after it occurred.
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But today, the subreddit is hooked on a new masterpiece of a conspiracy theory: a conspiracy against conspiracy theorists.
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Its co-writer Nick Vallelonga (son of Tony) came under fire for spreading an Islamophobic conspiracy theory on Twitter.
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How about the government's entertaining conspiracy theory that AT&T will coordinate with Comcast to kill rival streaming services?
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Michael Flynn, defended an online conspiracy theory that allegedly led to a man bringing guns into a Washington restaurant.
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The Washington Post and other mainstream media organizations have written stories explaining why the "oversampling" conspiracy theory is wrong.
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Trump got his start in politics by promoting the false conspiracy theory that President Obama was born in Kenya.
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For those who might not know, the "deep state" is a crackpot conspiracy theory often embraced by political extremists.
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A systematic bias across half a dozen sites obsessed with objectivity and documentation begins to verge on conspiracy theory.
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Previously, visitors have only ever seen two stations, creating a conspiracy theory that the entire thing was a sham.
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The group is a collective of familiar archetypes: Davey is the leader and a science-fiction conspiracy-theory nut.
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Seems Carmelo Anthony is familiar with the conspiracy theory that the spit that kicked off the Chris Paul vs.
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The article is based upon—and can also be seen as an attempt to legitimize—a nonsense conspiracy theory.
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This year, he promoted the QAnon pro-Trump conspiracy theory (though he's since said he no longer believes it).
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Trump is spinning a wild conspiracy theory: the idea that American Muslims secretly know who all the terrorists are.
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This week a conspiracy theory tying the death of a young DNC staffer to Wikileaks spread through conservative media.
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It's all he needs to do to rouse Trump supporters, who've never met a conspiracy theory they didn't believe.
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That the whole thing was, wait for it, a totally false conspiracy theory was beside the point for Trump.
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Here's a conspiracy theory to rock the darkest crevices of the internet: Kylie Jenner faked a pan of lasagna.
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And currency market cynics will seize this apparent policy impotency as grounds for yuan devaluation; a favorite conspiracy theory.
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He peddled a racist conspiracy theory that the first African-American president wasn't actually born in the United States.
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She propagated the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, for example, and falsely accused a Parkland survivor of giving a Nazi salute.
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I don't think anything would be a conspiracy theory if there wasn't a little bit of truth to it.
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"Rather than adjust his Twitter settings, Kevin McCarthy chooses to perpetuate an outrageous conspiracy theory," Pelosi tweeted on Sunday.
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A few minutes of misty-eyed Christmas nostalgia leads immediately—"meanwhile, switching gears"—to a conspiracy theory about Benghazi.
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The deep state is a conspiracy theory that claims high-level officials run a shadow government working against Trump.
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Reddit last September banned a forum dedicated to the QAnon conspiracy theory, saying users repeatedly violated its content policies.
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An aide to a Florida state lawmaker was fired Tuesday after emailing a similar conspiracy theory to a reporter.
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" Nunes added that "it's time for the curtain to close on the Russia hoax, the conspiracy theory is dead.
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Trump on Saturday retweeted a post promoting a conspiracy theory linking Epstein's death to the Clintons without any evidence.
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He was the leading proponent of birtherism in 2011 and continued to promote the conspiracy theory publicly until 2015.
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Will this latest conspiracy theory about the Russia investigation bubble up to Fox News, and from there to Trump?
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The theory, which became known as Pizzagate, had circulated among far-right conspiracy theory websites and social media accounts.
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Even in a year that gave us peak Q Anon, this may be the most 2018 conspiracy theory ever.
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Andresen has previously espoused the debunked conspiracy theory that former President Obama is secretly a follower of the religion.
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In a heart-to-heart with Mike, Logan also declares his belief in the popular conspiracy theory via rap.
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Except, at the time, it was looked at as a conspiracy theory or some sort of healthcare science fiction.
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Facebook has been battling for years the conspiracy theory that it listens to users' conversation to better target ads.
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With four weeks until the election, Mr. Trump is occupying himself with a right-wing conspiracy theory about Mrs.
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For post-war generations, the specter of an Orwellian "Big Brother" was more than a farfetched, fringe conspiracy theory.
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Insider&aposs new poll, by comparison, shows 56% of Republicans and 44% of Democrats believing in the conspiracy theory.
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His apology came three months after a man motivated by the conspiracy theory fired a rifle inside the restaurant.
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Latvia's finance minister, Dana Reizniece-Ozola, a chess grandmaster well versed in elaborate gambits, derided Mr. Rimsevics's conspiracy theory.
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How promulgating a leftwing conspiracy theory about the government's role in the attack is any more ethical evades me.
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In their attempts to undermine the Russia probe, Republicans aren't presenting a coherent theory — even a coherent conspiracy theory.
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Each time a reader encounters a conspiracy theory on Facebook, Google, or really anywhere, it makes a subtle impression.
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Paranoia into policy Tweeting about a conspiracy theory may have changed the conversation, but at what cost to Trump?
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I saw a lot of reporters on Saturday evening doing this when Trump retweeted the anti-Clinton conspiracy theory.
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The press secretary for Shujing Ping tweeted out, some conspiracy theory nonsense about the US creating the virus, right?
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For example, no one I know thought there was any truth to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory propagated by Infowars.
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In 2016, the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory led to an armed man showing up at a Washington, DC, pizza shop.
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Supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory have advocated drinking bleach to kill the coronavirus, The Daily Beast reported Tuesday.
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This purported "leak" reads more like a classic fandom conspiracy theory, the kind that's become increasingly common of late.
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The president also wanted Zelensky to investigate a discredited conspiracy theory suggesting Ukraine interfered in the 2016 US election.
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The group has presented anti-Iran messaging from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as "proof" of this conspiracy theory.
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A crazy conspiracy theory Yes, the 2018 campaign is focused on issues like health care, taxes and President Trump.
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John Kennedy doubles down on claims of Ukrainian interference Vindman calls Ukrainian election interference conspiracy theory "a Russian narrative"
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For nonbelievers, "See conspiracy theory; mock" has become an ingrained response online—and we need to break the habit.
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"The D.N.C. server and that conspiracy theory has got to go; they have to stop with that," he said.
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Don't try to paint this as we're trying to say this is some kind of a conspiracy theory, OK?
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A few years ago, the suggestion that your devices are listening to you was dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
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Conspiracy Theory #4: Ukraine mounted a coordinated effort to interfere in the 21625 election on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
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At that age, I had no idea what a conspiracy theory was, because I had no reason to know.
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Remember, saying that the election was tainted isn't a smear or a wild conspiracy theory; it's simply the truth.
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On Thursday, Trump's former National Security Council adviser on Russia, Fiona Hill, chastised Republicans for promoting the conspiracy theory.
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N. During his run for president in 2015 and 2016, a widely circulated, joking conspiracy theory accused Republican Sen.
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Immigration activist Emma Lozano has been the target of a conservative conspiracy theory for months, the Chicago Tribune reports.
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Trump also pushed Zelensky to look into a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 race.
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In the days after Fox News produced it, the spy tale was distributed by other dealers of conspiracy theory.
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But now his legacy may be something else altogether: The guy who spread a debunked conspiracy theory about Ukraine.
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Trump's request appears to have originated from a conspiracy theory Stone has been pushing in his own legal defense.
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One of the investigations Trump wanted Zelensky to publicly announce was on the conspiracy theory that Hill passionately refuted.
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A majority of Americans believe in some form of conspiracy theory around the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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He falsely claimed in August that the problem of white supremacy in America is a "hoax" and "conspiracy theory."
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Its co-writer, Nick Vallelonga (son of Tony), came under fire for spreading an Islamophobic conspiracy theory on Twitter.
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"Not satisfied with the existing conspiracy theory about Seth Rich ... Defendants Ed Butowsky, Matt Couch, and America First Media have spent the past year creating and disseminating a made-up conspiracy theory that Aaron Rich was the technological know-how behind, and financial beneficiary of, Seth's operation," Aaron Rich's attorney told CNN.
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As long as that cycle exists, the wiretapping claim won't be the last online conspiracy theory to become state-sanctioned.
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" The department accuses the challengers of "conjuring a conspiracy theory involving a deceased political operative that essentially hinges on wordplay.
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When we come back, the most outrageous conspiracy theory, that crazy NBC has now peddled about Donald Trump and Russia.
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The most notable conspiracy theory was floated by neo-Nazi hacker Weev, who said that he had hacked Kessler's account.
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J&J said the story was "one-sided, false and inflammatory" and an "absurd conspiracy theory," according to a statement.
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Hot on the heels of bans from Apple and Facebook, the conspiracy theory media empire has been banned on YouTube.
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Photo: GettyFacebook has "unpublished" four pages belonging to InfoWars in a move that could financially devastate the conspiracy theory empire.
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We love a good conspiracy theory, but it's rare that we get direct confirmation of our addled, late-night suppositions.
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The conspiracy theory apparently motivated the shooting suspect, Edgar Welch, to drive from his home in North Carolina to Washington.
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Flynn's son was recently removed from Trump's presidential transition team for promoting a false conspiracy theory about a DC pizzeria.
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But come Sunday morning, the jokes ended as Trump began demanding that the Republican-controlled Congress pursue his conspiracy theory.
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Gawker Media goes down in the manifestation of what would in virtually any other circumstance be an unhinged conspiracy theory.
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I hoped to discuss the Reddit conspiracy theory that claimed someone she's in a relationship with was behind her work.
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In recent weeks Alex Jones and his conspiracy theory site Infowars were kicked off YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other sites.
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It banned forums related to the QAnon conspiracy theory in 2018, and it's quarantined or purged other far-right subreddits.
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That's because until now, Barr hadn't faced any for the alt-right conspiracy theory thought spiral that is her Twitter.
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"We want to be very careful, because the conspiracy theory points out innocent and unprotected people as villains," Uscinski said.
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Trump, however, is not one to let evidence, or lack thereof, stop him from pushing a politically useful conspiracy theory.
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"To bully a shutdown is extreme," the member wrote, in reply to their original conspiracy theory comment in the group.
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Second, this baseless attack on Clinton's health reeks of the same conspiracy theory junk we have heard before from him.
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The body double conspiracy theory emerged in 2017, when Melania Trump visited the U.S. Secret Service training facility in Maryland.
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Agreeing you believe in a conspiracy theory like "Ted Cruz's father was involved in the JFK assassination" is one thing.
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Or could the Fantasy Suite itself just be a conspiracy theory cooked up by the devious mind of Chris Harrison?
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This Beyoncé conspiracy theory has some major weight to it when you look back at the events of the night.
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The growth of the conspiracy theory also parallels the expansion of the aviation sector worldwide, he said in a statement.
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Out of that primordial soup of grievance and conspiracy theory grew an organic theme that coursed through the entire event.
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Ted Cruz of stealing Iowa in his caucus victory, and building his own conspiracy theory as to how that happened.
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So when I see a darling old conspiracy theory being dredged up and so gently euthanized, it makes me smile.
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Barr also claimed that philanthropist and billionaire George Soros was a Nazi, a conspiracy theory that's been debunked by Snopes.
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He accused Sweden of not treating Americans fairly and nodding to an old conspiracy theory about immigrant crime in Sweden.
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Again, I think people often want to make things into a big conspiracy theory and it's hugely not the case.
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A senator had thrown fuel into the conspiracy theory fire, in a way that will undermine trust in law enforcement.
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Welcome to Celebrity Conspiracy Theory, Mashable's new series in which we investigate the internet's most perplexing theories about famous people.
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The Hill: During his Thursday rally in Missouri, Trump described a conspiracy theory involving Chinese enemies and U.S. birthright citizenship.
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The second concerned a discredited conspiracy theory alleging that Ukraine, and not Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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" Where prominent conservatives stand: "As prominent conservatives tiptoed around the conspiracy theory swamps, the right-wing internet dove in headfirst.
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And he often does so by lobbing out a conspiracy theory with only the loosest ties to the factual world.
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But the videos Trump retweeted on Wednesday nevertheless represent a new evolution in his embrace of conspiracy theory–fueled xenophobia.
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Family entertainment chain Chuck E. Cheese's in a statement on Tuesday denied a conspiracy theory amplified on YouTube this week.
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The lack of specifics of, you know, proof is actually evidence for some people that the conspiracy theory is real.
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The president also pushed Ukraine to back a groundless conspiracy theory alleging that Ukrainian officials hacked the 2016 presidential election.
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There is no evidence that any aspect of the conspiracy theory is true, and multiple media outlets have debunked it.
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Well, the conspiracy theory that Avril Lavigne died in 2003 and was replaced by lookalike is making the rounds again.
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Fewer seem aware that those lines actually enunciated a crazy conspiracy theory, essentially accusing President Obama of deliberately weakening America.
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Support for the Epstein murder conspiracy theory on the right stems from existing conspiracy theories involving the Democratic Clinton family.
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YouTube has a conspiracy theory problem, and the platform is trying to fix it by outsourcing its problems to Wikipedia.
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But as is the case with any good conspiracy theory, no official statement denying the plausibility will ever be enough.
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RT, Russia's English-language propaganda outlet, interviewed a contributor to the right-wing conspiracy theory site Infowars named Patrick Henningsen.
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Superstitious sports fans have a conspiracy theory accusing the Kardashian women of cursing the team of the athletes they've dated.
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The AP reported that Arpaio closed his investigation Thursday after pushing his "birther" conspiracy theory for more than five years.
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Posobiec peddled an unfounded conspiracy theory about a DC pizzeria housing a Satanic pedophilia ring orchestrated by Hillary Clinton's employees.
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The most prominent figure spreading this conspiracy theory is Hannity, who has been asked repeatedly to stop by Rich's family.
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Earlier this week, Jones claimed that his channel received a strike for spreading a conspiracy theory about the Parkland shooting.
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The amount of research done by One Direction fanatics and Buzzfeed to nail down this widespread conspiracy theory is crazy.
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"Well, of course they will deny it..." White supremacism, another conspiracy theory, is very much alive and well in prison.
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Trump first pushed this conspiracy theory around the time of his inauguration, meaning Todd had ample opportunity to come prepared.
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Like Billy Corgan before her, Kylie Jenner loves spreading the gospel of the chemtrail conspiracy theory on her Snapchat story.
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It is not the first time that YouTube has come under scrutiny for its perceived inaction towards conspiracy theory videos.
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Telizhenko is a stalwart Giuliani ally and helped spread the conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled to defeat Trump in 2016.
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Even a U.S. senator from Arkansas has trafficked in the unfounded conspiracy theory it was a man-made Chinese bioweapon.
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At the time of its removal, the designated subreddit for believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory had over 70,000 subscribers.
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"The Great Replacement," a white-nationalist conspiracy theory cited by the El Paso suspect, has gone viral on fringe platforms.
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Kelly Johnston, the Campbell Soup executive who promoted a conspiracy theory about George Soros, is leaving the company next month.
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The phone and email attacks continued through the fall and spiked each time a new conspiracy theory was posted online.
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Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani got very invested in a Joe Biden conspiracy theory promoted on Breitbart and Fox News.
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In the process he gave fresh currency to a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential race.
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"The conspiracy theory … that the whistleblower colluded with the Intel Committee staff … is a complete and total fiction," he said.
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So, when reporters, producers, or amateur historians want to check out the latest JFK conspiracy theory, they call Dave Perry.
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Trump also pressured Zelensky to investigate a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to help Democrats.
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Uber employees were disturbed by the circulation of such a twisted conspiracy theory, and many took time off from work.
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"Trump requested Zelensky investigate the discredited 2016 CrowdStrike conspiracy theory and, even more ominously, look into the Bidens," Schiff said.
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That last sentence is a conspiracy theory, but it's obvious that Apple is going to need to do something quick.
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Mr. Trump referred elliptically to allegations that Ukraine meddled in the 20163 election and brought up a related conspiracy theory.
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The Pizzagate conspiracy theory posited without evidence that high-ranking Democrats were involved in a nonexistent child sex-trafficking circle.
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Trump also asked Zelenskiy to investigate a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Shane Dawson returned to YouTube with a conspiracy theory video after his docuseries with controversial star Jake Paul in January.
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Where was the rebuke of the man who used that conspiracy theory as a springboard to the presidency, Donald Trump?
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Trump also wanted Ukraine to investigate a debunked conspiracy theory that alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Netflix has its own conspiracy theory problem, but its users aren't uploading their own content so it's potentially more manageable.
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"There's nothing quite like the Kennedy assassination, I think, in the realm of conspiracy theory," Alexandra Zapruder told Retro Report.
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"Here on Planet Earth, the conspiracy theory that Bondi repeated has been conclusively refuted," said rapid response director Andrew Bates.
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He is best known for promoting the debunked "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which alleges that top Democrats led a pedophilia ring.
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Hill, the star witness on Thursday, went out of her way to debunk the conspiracy theory being pushed by Rep.
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Some prominent conservative celebrities, such as Roseanne Barr and former baseball player Curt Schilling, have tweeted about the conspiracy theory.
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Giuliani also wanted Ukraine to investigate a discredited conspiracy theory that Kiev, not Moscow, interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
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Trump also pushed Zelensky to launch an inquiry into a debunked conspiracy theory about Ukraine interfering in the 2016 election.
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He propounded the conspiracy theory that "there may have been a secret society" of federal agents working against Mr Trump.
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The report also trades in conspiracy theory, suggesting the whole investigation is a coup by the President's "deep state" rivals.
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Amazon and Hulu's algorithms are recommending conspiracy theory films, and the consequences could be more serious than you might think.
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Nor is there evidence to support the conspiracy theory that Ukraine worked with Democrats to interfere in the 2016 election.
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Second, in a politics fueled by conspiracy theory, it becomes impossible to separate a real conspiracy from a fake one.
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Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Alex Jones's conspiracy theory website InfoWars.
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Corsi is an associate of longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone — they were both commentators at the conspiracy theory site InfoWars.
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But a conspiracy theory is not necessarily crackpot or wrong: If the conspiracy is real, the theory may be correct.
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He prides himself as a political dirty trickster, and he has never met a conspiracy theory he did not believe.
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Even people like alt-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, who promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, has pushed back against QAnon.
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So how exactly should the media have responded in this case to the Soros conspiracy theory tweeted by the president?
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Second, this still has the ring of a conspiracy theory, this idea that the Kremlin has blackmailed Trump into submission.
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The whole conspiracy theory, a mess of pseudoscience, claims that shadowy global cabals are tricking us with Photoshop and "fake science," and lots and lots of (misused and misunderstood) science jargon, ticks off so many boxes on the Indonesian conspiracy theory fringe's list of loves, that it almost seems tailor-made for this country.
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When you put on a conspiracy theory hat, suddenly every line in the books seems like it could be foreshadowing something.
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Protesters Friday demonstrated in front of the White House calling for more attention to be paid to the disproven conspiracy theory.
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But even more significant than that particular piece of gaslighting is the glaring hole at the core of Hannity's conspiracy theory.
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One of the most prominent examples last year was the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory that spread across online forums 4chan and Reddit.
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A Somali immigrant like Omar is not stoking the kind of hate about migrants that fuels the "white genocide" conspiracy theory.
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For years — especially after he pushed the deadly Pizzagate conspiracy theory — people could not understand why social platforms kept him around.
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His son, Donald Trump Jr., also retweeted a meme Friday that included a racist, Islamophobic conspiracy theory linking Omar to terrorism.
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And when we fall for conspiracy theory, that really -- WILLIAMS: But I think there is something else to be said here.
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He essentially launched his current political career calling by becoming one of the most prominent advocates for the "birther" conspiracy theory.
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But Russian officials continue to float every possible conspiracy theory, claiming that Russia had nothing to do with Skripal falling ill.
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While the conspiracy theory itself might be well-known, the true story surrounding a victim and his family still goes untold.
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An hour before her "apology," she was calling George Soros a Nazi (another conspiracy theory proven false) and harassing Chelsea Clinton.
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President Donald Trump was a prominent promoter of the racist "birther" conspiracy theory that claimed Obama was secretly born in Kenya.
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Fatima Abubakar Fatima, like Hajara, was mostly baffled by the notion that her ordeal was part of a nationwide conspiracy theory.
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Quite a few people in the forum have attempted to explain the idiocy of a pro-Marvel, anti-DC conspiracy theory.
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Oh, and Ukraine, because of a baseless conspiracy theory that Kyiv framed Russia for the hacking of the Democrats in 2016.
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She never addressed questions or allegations from fans about reposting photos, which only spurred the conspiracy theory about her absence further.
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He took the conspiracy theory mainstream; before Obama released his birth certificate, 45 percent of Republicans believed he was born elsewhere.
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And he continued to claim that Clinton was involved in spreading the "birther" conspiracy theory that shot him to political prominence.
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Since Wikileaks first began publishing the emails in October, fervor around Pizzagate in online conspiracy theory circles has crested and dropped.
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The conspiracy theory is based on the very real — and very controversial — issue of post-apartheid land reform in South Africa.
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B. was unconvinced: Once you go flat, you never go back There is, of course, a bigger, grander conspiracy theory here.
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Jones apologized last year, in careful language, for spreading the phony Pizzagate conspiracy theory, saying he&aposd been given inaccurate information.
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And I think that Twitter is right to acknowledge what&aposs going on here rather than calling it a conspiracy theory.
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But by paying a firm that blamed Soros for protest activities, Facebook was essentially supporting a popular anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
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"For those accusing me of pushing a conspiracy theory, you are the biggest phony hypocrites in the entire world," he said.
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It was really hard to resist not sending him a well-built-up conspiracy theory that would scare him to death.
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Roy even feels something like affection when he sees CorruptUSAll yelling about an obscure conspiracy theory involving the Secret Quadrilateral Congress.
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"For those accusing me of pushing a conspiracy theory, you are the biggest phony hypocrites in the entire world," he continued.
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"If Mr. Trump is suggesting a conspiracy theory that is being propagated across the country ... that's ridiculous," Obama said in August.
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"We have a chance to turn the corner at Fox, and perpetuating this conspiracy theory damages our integrity," the employee continued.
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On Wednesday, Trump complained that Sessions wouldn't corroborate a conspiracy theory of a widespread conspiracy in federal law enforcement against Trump.
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The hubbub around the younger Flynn's promotion of the conspiracy theory eventually ended with his removal from President Trump's transition team.
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He was in search of the truth about a government-backed child slavery ring, a conspiracy theory known online as Pizzagate.
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In the video, Pai dances to the "Harlem Shake," beside Martina Markota, known for spreading the thoroughly debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
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Maybe they're tired of scrolling through their aunt's three-paragraph-long flat earth conspiracy theory manifesto, and honestly, aren't we all?
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This twisting, cluttered design suggests a dystopian model railway built by someone with a fondness for Dumpster diving and conspiracy theory.
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Instead of apologizing, Mr. Trump said the baseless conspiracy theory was started by his rival, Hillary Clinton — which was itself untrue.
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These people, the conspiracy theory states, are "in on it" and likely conspiring with authorities to help fake the town's existence.
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On August 12, Trump retweeted a conspiracy theory linking the death of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to former President Bill Clinton.
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In 2016, her fans dissected one of her videos to produce a conspiracy theory that she was being imprisoned by ISIS.
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On Thursday, Lionel Lebron, a prolific promoter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, was photographed in the Oval Office meeting the President.
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Trump had asked Zelenskiy in their phone call about the so-called CrowdStrike server, a key piece of the conspiracy theory.
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He is also entertaining an additional conspiracy theory that will cover him if he loses the election, which seems increasingly likely.
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According to the Beast, Wolfe also frequently posted about QAnon—a far-right conspiracy theory originating on the anonymous 4chan imageboard.
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In the video, Pai dances to the "Harlem Shake," beside Martina Markota, known for spreading the thoroughly debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
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An investigation by USA Today found that the Soros conspiracy theory had spread to hundreds of millions of social media users.
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Podesta's name was roped into the conspiracy theory after WikiLeaks released a trove of hacked emails from Podesta and other Democrats.
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As for why it went down that way -- the Senator didn't dismiss the conspiracy theory about Russia having dirt on 45.
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The conspiracy theory started on 27chan's /pol/ board in October of last year when an anonymous user started posting cryptic messages.
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Berman said it was "unpersuasive and borderline unprofessional" to bring up what he called an "illogical foreign conspiracy theory" in court.
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There is a very popular conspiracy theory that claims their debut album is about a same-sex relationship culminating in murder.
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In all your art pieces and in the gallery work, you seem to be a man who loves a conspiracy theory.
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It's a common conspiracy theory among white nationalists that Jewish people are trying to replace America's white population with nonwhite immigrants.
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On social media, the conspiracy theory seems to prevail: M.B.S.'s stunt is seen as the product of an American injunction.
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At one point, it felt like everyone involved in that election had gotten caught up in some kind of conspiracy theory.
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If you see disinformation out there — like a "false flag" conspiracy theory that surfaced in the past week — let us know.
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Groups originally formed to promote QAnon, a sprawling pro-Trump conspiracy theory, latched on and turned up the volume even higher.
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Alex Jones, the conspiracy-theory-loving Infowars founder, was labeled a crank and worse for theorizing that the attacks of Sept.
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Alice Walker, the beloved activist and author of The Color Purple, is under fire for promoting an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
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It's especially bad since this conspiracy theory — that Obama has secret opinions based on his African heritage — has troubling racial overtones.
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The exhibition ends with a homage to the more outlandish artistic renderings of conspiracy theory, especially with regard to science-fiction.
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On Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted a more bizarre conspiracy theory, claiming that the paid protesters he referenced earlier weren't being paid.
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Two of the far-right's best-known pro-Trump conspiracy theory peddlers, Mike Cernovich and Charles C. Johnson, work from California.
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It sets out a conspiracy theory about a 2016 national-security wiretap on the once-obscure Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
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I'm speaking, of course, about President Donald Trump's decision to retweet a baseless conspiracy theory about the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein.
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Many saw him as a proto-Trump—a booster of the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was a Kenyan-born Muslim.
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But many of us are glued to the television and the internet, consuming every novel conspiracy theory that comes to mind.
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My third, I admit, was the pizzagate folks are going to go into overdrive to fit this into their conspiracy theory.
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It's possible that Delphine saw the conspiracy theory that she had been arrested, and is now playing along with the joke.
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This investigation was related to a debunked conspiracy theory alleging that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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"In fairness, I don't know that it was Rudy Giuliani that put that conspiracy theory into the president's head," he said.
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Then came the backlash denouncing the #JJCut as an implausible bit of fantasy, a poorly conceived conspiracy theory with zero verification.
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One family's baby pictures, for example, became memes in an anti-Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory alleging the sexual torture of children.
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Two years later, in June, former Trump adviser Roger Stone revived the debunked CrowdStrike conspiracy theory as part of his defense.
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That an insane online conspiracy theory brought violence to a neighborhood business five miles from the White House is mind-boggling.
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Anyone with a spare conspiracy theory was encouraged, and many people who would normally be really into electing Hillary were depressed.
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The morbid acrostic, coincidental or not, reflects a repeated conspiracy theory-turned-meme over the death of the financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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Trump also asked his Ukrainian counterpart to look into a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting Ukraine interfered in the 2016 US election.
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For example, Moscow could have made the decision, based on knowledge from those calls, to push that conspiracy theory more aggressively.
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In August, he amplified Williams' conspiracy theory that the death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was connected to the Clintons.
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He didn't reflect in any way on the conspiracy theory, its meaning in American life, or his own embrace of it.
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Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle was photographed on July 4 with one of the major promoters of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
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NEW YORK An article on Saturday about the Gambino murder suspect Anthony Comello misidentified the origin of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
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In January, during the transition period, Trump met with Robert F. Kennedy, a leading proponent of the anti-vaccination conspiracy theory.
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It's the hardcore users who drive this conspiracy theory — and they believe it is their patriotic duty to investigate this conspiracy.
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Indeed, a recent study showed a correlation between an individual's need for structure and tendency to believe in a conspiracy theory.
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According to the conspiracy theory–fueled media titan, there's a "fungal epidemic" causing everything from rampant brain tumors to Crohn's disease.
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I've been seeing a lot of conspiracy-theory Medium posts coming from the left that are spreading like wildfire right now.
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That said, there's only so much you can talk about a conspiracy theory before you cross the line into legitimizing it.
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But if you want, you can imagine a conspiracy theory that concludes with Jeff Bewkes allowing himself a quiet, discreet grin.
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One thing that differentiates the Mandela Effect from conspiracy theory, however, is that it doesn't claim to have found an answer.
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And the conspiracy theory is being pushed by some of the far right's biggest voices, including Alex Jones and Sean Hannity.
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In other words, the high-info/low-trust dynamic is in fact the conspiracy theory sweet spot, but primarily for conservatives.
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Among those pushing the conspiracy theory is Buhari's political opponent Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
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The prioritization of new videos encourages YouTube conspiracy content creators to post multiple videos that expand upon a particular conspiracy theory.
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According to Google Trends, search interest in the flat Earth conspiracy theory has already had several distinct peaks in the last year.
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But more recently, he's been a die-hard supporter of President Trump and a frequent guest on the conspiracy theory show InfoWars.
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The "2" in the file name presumably refers to the "second edition" of the conspiracy theory movie which was released in 2006.
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To make this a truly comprehensive conspiracy theory, it uses both Hillary Clinton and the infamous Steele dossier in establishing the connections.
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He had heard about the "#Pizzagate" conspiracy theory and believed the restaurant was harboring a child sex ring connected to Hillary Clinton.
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A few months ago, I wrote that you should stop wasting my time with this Planet X/Nibiru doomsday conspiracy theory bullshit.
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The schizotypal illustration The final type of conspiracy theory illustration ties together everyone and everything into some sort of far-reaching plot.
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Our tireless video team has taken on myths about abortion in Alabama, a conspiracy theory about Melania Trump, and dug into clickfarms.
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One particular conspiracy theory has gained popularity this week: that authorities are supplying voters with pencils to help with subsequent vote-stealing.
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She now promotes a conspiracy theory that Jews were behind bringing Muslims to Sweden and collaborates with the white nationalist website RedIce.
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I know — it's about as big of a conspiracy theory as Joaquin (Rob Raco) secretly being the Cooper family's long-lost brother.
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And although the fixed script initially sounds like neutral reportage, it soon swerves toward fantasy realms of conspiracy theory and extrasensory perception.
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Like anyone who's knee-deep in a conspiracy theory, hardcore anti-Semites religiously memorize every single shred of evidence for their argument.
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This idea stems from a conspiracy theory that has circulated in right-wing media for several years and has been thoroughly debunked.
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"The decision was made to ignore the Republicans' conspiracy theory-driven sideshow," a Democratic staffer told Vox's Alex Ward during the hearing.
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Shaq and fellow spinning ball lover Kyrie Irving are now publicly supporting the flat Earth conspiracy theory, joining an already existing cohort.
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It's a classic misfire that makes what could be a fact-based passionate message into what sounds like a random conspiracy theory.
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Because all of these loose strands feed into a whole nother conspiracy theory which will actually enlarge the footprint of the killer.
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One conspiracy theory suggested Joyce had been kidnapped by ISIS and was organizing a meetup to lure teenagers to a terror attack.
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Unlike Instagram and Twitter, this type of fringe, if not obscene sensationalist political commentary and conspiracy theory seeding is much less discoverable.
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It's the classic "your phone is listening to everything you say," conspiracy theory that so many people have willingly started to believe.
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Gaetz and a few of his Republican colleagues turned Jayapal's request for information into a conspiracy theory investigation of Comey and Clinton.
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I'm thinking of the time when he brought up the conspiracy theory that Ted Cruz's father was involved in the JFK assassination.
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Melania was born in the '70s, but please just trust that this is a very real conspiracy theory worthy of your time.
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That testimony devastated the conspiracy theory Trump had launched and pursued that his campaign had been surveilled under the order of Obama.
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Another pastime: The younger Flynn remains active in alt-right Twitter circles and was a vocal supporter of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
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Alex Jones—the barrel-chested don of the modern day conspiracy theory movement—did something completely out of the ordinary this week.
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On Tuesday, the president's eldest son, Donald Jr., was caught liking two tweets that pushed the same BS conspiracy theory about Hogg.
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Trump's rise to power even began with a conspiracy theory: the accusation that Barack Obama hid the true circumstances of his birth.
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Last week's hiring of new campaign chief Steve Bannon, the editor-in-chief of the ultra conservative conspiracy theory generating website Breitbart.
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" Hannity, who has been covering the conspiracy theory on his show, ripped critics Tuesday on his radio program, saying, "I retracted nothing.
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On Tuesday, he mocked Trump's "birther" conspiracy theory by saying he doctored his birth certificate to work at McDonald's as a teenager.
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Ted Cruz's father was involved with the JFK assassination, was suddenly the subject of a big conspiracy theory on Far Left Twitter.
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Roseanne Barr is under fire for appearing to promote a far-right conspiracy theory about the Parkland school shooting activist David Hogg.
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Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone appeared on conspiracy theory outlet InfoWars to allege that Kushner is leaking stories to liberal media outlets.
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In addition to being a Trump supporter, Arpaio was also known for promoting the conspiracy theory Trump stoked about Obama's birth certificate.
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In addition to being a Trump supporter, Arpaio was notable for sharing in the conspiracy theory Trump stoked about Obama's birth certificate.
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Jack Posobiec, who was an early pusher of the fake Pizzagate conspiracy theory, and far-right activist Laura Loomer, were also speakers.
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"Donald Trump was interviewing Mitt Romney for secretary of State in order to torture him," Stone said on conspiracy theory website InfoWars.
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Some of the families are now living in hiding as a result of the harassment they've faced because of the conspiracy theory.
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The proposed boycott comes after Hannity lost advertisers after pushing a conspiracy theory about the murder of a Democratic National Committee staffer.
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NBC News has blockbuster report by Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins tracking the spread of the so-called QAnon online conspiracy theory.
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Of course, as with most conspiracy theory-related jokes, things quickly got blown out of proportion and the "Bielefeld conspiracy" was developed.
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That charge may sound like a conspiracy theory from the lunatic fringe, but it is real and it is happening right now.
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There is no evidence that any aspect of the conspiracy theory is true, and it has been debunked by multiple media outlets.
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The curious thing about the QAnon conspiracy theory is that Trump will have a hard time either embracing it or denouncing it.
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Specifically, the president wanted Zelensky to go on television and publicly announce he would investigate the Bidens and the Ukraine conspiracy theory.
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It means relentlessly combating the online disinformation campaigns that blur the lines between fact and fiction with confirmation bias, conspiracy theory clickbait.
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Trump also asked Zelensky to investigate a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting it was Ukraine, not Russia, that meddled in the 2016 election.
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The family of Seth Rich wrote a letter to Hannity's executive producer urging the primetime program to stop pushing the conspiracy theory.
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The couple had watched "Conspiracy Theory," the cable television show hosted by the onetime professional wrestler and governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura.
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Giuliani appeared on ABC after Bossert and pushed back on the former official's claims, denying that he ever promoted the conspiracy theory.
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The Run-Up The syringe started off as a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton's health posted on a fringe right-wing website.
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It's a conspiracy theory shared by the white nationalist who killed 51 at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this year.
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This absurd conspiracy theory would be laughable if it had not come from someone who is now the world's most powerful man.
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After all, they peddled this conspiracy theory, the president bought into it, and that's how it commanded our attention for a week.
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It's time to move on from everyone's favorite Facebook conspiracy theory: No, Facebook is not listening to you through your phone's microphone.
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" Three days later, it tweaked the headline to read "People Think This Whole QAnon Conspiracy Theory Is a Prank on Trump Supporters.
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In reality, he was paying a firm to push the exact kind of conspiracy theory that Facebook has been criticized of propagating.
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Excitement pulsed through the QAnon conspiracy-theory community Saturday after new posts on 8kun from a user purporting to be "Q" appeared.
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Those people are adherents of a broad-scale conspiracy theory that pits President Trump against a global elite seeking to murder him.
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However, a conspiracy theory that the fire was made at the hands of Muslim attackers caught hold with some far-right extremists.
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However, a conspiracy theory that the fire was made at the hands of Muslim attackers caught hold with some extremists, HuffPost reported.
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Yet he did, and he did it in large part not despite but because he has championed one conspiracy theory after another.
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