Conspiracy Theories

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and President Donald Trump have a heated exchange in the White House
Politics

With Elon Musk in attendance, South Africa’s president counters Trump for pushing a baseless conspiracy theory about ‘white genocide’: ‘This I’ve never seen’

By Gerald Imray, Aamer Madhani and The Associated Press
May 21, 2025
Elon Musk folds his hands behind a logo of xAI and Grok
Tech

Elon Musk’s AI says it was ‘instructed by my creators at xAI’ to accept the narrative of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

By Beatrice Nolan and Dave Smith
May 15, 2025
The DeepSeek AI application is seen on a mobile phone in this photo illustration taken in Warsaw, Poland on 27 January, 2025.
Tech

China’s DeepSeek AI is full of misinformation and can be tricked into generating bomb instructions, researchers warn

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January 29, 2025
Alex Jones supporters and opponents are both angling to buy Infowars at bankruptcy auction
Finance

Alex Jones supporters and opponents are both angling to buy Infowars at bankruptcy auction

By Dave Collins and The Associated Press
November 8, 2024
Former President Donald Trump
Politics

Google responds to Elon Musk’s accusations of a ‘search ban’ on Trump: ‘We’re working on improvements’ to auto-complete results

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July 29, 2024
Jeff Bezos Lauren Sanchez
Finance

New Florida resident Jeff Bezos pumped $60 million into making lab-grown meat taste better. Ron DeSantis just banned it from the state

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May 3, 2024
Seth Robinson, a chiropractor who serves as Tesla BioHealing's medical director, lifts bed skirts to show "biohealers" — canisters that the company claims exude "life force energy," or biophotons, at the Tesla BioHealing & MedBed Center, in Milford, Del., on Oct. 3, 2023. According to QAnon adherents, medbeds were developed by the military (in some versions, using alien technology) and are already in use by the world’s richest and most powerful families.
Health

From ‘life force energy’ canisters to ‘medbeds,’ online health conspiracy theories are creating a new age of unproven treatments

By David Klepper and The Associated Press
January 31, 2024
Chicken farmer
Personal Finance

People are so outraged over the price of eggs that an unfounded conspiracy theory about bad chicken feed is going viral

By Josh Kelety and The Associated Press
February 6, 2023
Papa Johns founder John Schnatter
Politics

Papa Johns ousted founder steps up attacks on the brand he started, saying chain has ‘lost its way’

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August 8, 2022
Bill Gates jokes about why Microsoft retired Internet Explorer. ‘I guess we finally ran out of microchips’
Tech

Bill Gates jokes about why Microsoft retired Internet Explorer. ‘I guess we finally ran out of microchips’

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June 16, 2022
Bill Gates is seen onstage discussing his new book 'How To Prevent The Next Pandemic.'
Health

Bill Gates opens up on vaccine conspiracy theories: ‘People yell at me that I’m tracking them’

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May 5, 2022
China is peddling a conspiracy theory about U.S. operating ‘dangerous’ biolabs in Ukraine
Health

China is peddling a conspiracy theory about U.S. operating ‘dangerous’ biolabs in Ukraine

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March 9, 2022
Delta variant surges in Midwest as Trump Country rejects vaccines
Health

Delta variant surges in Midwest as Trump Country rejects vaccines

By Josh Wingrove and Bloomberg
July 7, 2021
Far-right social media app Parler is coming back to the App Store after suspension for role in Capitol riots
Tech

Far-right social media app Parler is coming back to the App Store after suspension for role in Capitol riots

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April 19, 2021
Biden-Inauguration-Trumpist-Sites-Photo-Ilo
Tech

Biden’s inauguration plunges conservative social media into mourning and more conspiracies

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January 20, 2021

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