UPDATE: Oct. 26, 2018, 12:48 p.m. EDT Updated to include Trump’s comments after arrest of suspect.
President Donald Trump is using his Twitter account to seemingly push a conspiracy theory, this time surrounding the dozen (and counting) bombs sent t…
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President Donald Trump rode political conspiracy theories all the way to the White House, and now he now finds himself at the center of one.
By now, you’ve probably heard about QAnon, the online conspiracy theory figure whose following makes the Illuminati look like the burglars from Home Alone. Supporters of the conspiracy showed up at Trump’s rally in Tampa on Tuesday and have even targeted Tom Hanks on YouTube, making their presence known in the mainstream.
Oh look, QAnon sign at the Trump rally pic.twitter.com/2BwYWMJtWS
— Salvador Hernandez (@SalHernandez) July 31, 2018 Read more…
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View More How Donald Trump’s own words have helped fuel the QAnon fireAmazon Prime’s documentary genre features many Academy Award-winning feats of investigative journalism. But it has a problem: Amazon categorizes legitimate documentaries from HBO and PBS in the same way that it does conspiracy theory films from the l…
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One of the internet’s most famed catchphrases is about porn: that any sort of erotica you could want or imagine, no matter how niche or messed up, exists somewhere online.
That shouldn’t be the case for YouTube — a video community monitored for hate, violence, abuse, obscenity, and more. But with each new discovery of disturbing footage after repulsive video trend, it seems that the populist platform is just as out of control as the internet on which it lives. From child porn to animal abuse, it’s time to ask, Google, what the heck is happening on YouTube?
On Tuesday, BuzzFeed uncovered that images of beastiality are extremely “easy to find” on YouTube. Now, this doesn’t pertain to actual videos of beastiality. Instead, BuzzFeed found that (totally creepy, but not explicitly human-to-animal sexual) videos featuring scantily clad women petting or grooming animals were essentially marketed with explicit beastiality thumbnails. Multiple thumbnails featured women engaging in sexual acts with horses. Read more…
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All conspiracy theories are trash — unless you’re talking about celebrity queer relationship conspiracy theories, which are 100% good and accurate.
Or so we hope. There are so many conspiracy theories in this genre that, if proven true, would bring infinite joy to queer people worldwide. The LGBTQ community has few celebrity queer relationships they can count on for gossip — a Kristen Stewart and Stella Maxwell here, a RuPaul and Georges LeBar there. By and large, however, these relationships are stable. They are healthy. They are far below the requisite drama standard for gossip.
We need more. Read more…
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When Chrissy Teigen and John Legend (and a bunch of other people) boarded a plane to Tokyo from LA, they probably didn’t think they would get a bizarre flight pattern—and one not-so-convincing fugative theory.
Their plane made an unexpected return to Los Angeles Airport on Thursday night and naturally, Teigen live-tweeted the events. But someone out there somehow managed to take those live-tweets and turn it into a piping hot conspiracy theory about Teigen and Legend fleeing the country. She shared screenshots of this user’s thoughts on the flight fiasco, and they’re uh, pretty unique.
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View More The best part about Chrissy Teigen’s peculiar LAX flight is this insane conspiracy theoryStrap in for a new political conspiracy theory involving Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and … Disney World?
The most magical place on Earth delivered a sneak peek of its newly refurbished Hall of Presidents exhibit Monday with a new addition:…
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Fake news is like a horrible weed: just when you think you’ve eradicated it, another pops up somewhere else.
The website YourNewsWire published a totally made-up story about actor Keanu Reeves, who allegedly said in Milan that Hollywood elites use “the blood of babies to get high”.
The story went viral on Facebook with 26,000+ engagements. It was posted on the verified Your News Wire and related The People’s Voice pages, as noticed by Media Matters researcher Alex Kaplan:
YourNewsWire (YNW), which published the fake viral Texas shooter antifa story, makes up blatantly fake story about Keanu Reeves that already has 12,500+ Facebook engagements and is being promoted on a verified Facebook page run by the same people as YNWpic.twitter.com/H2pHIh26q3
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) November 20, 2017 Read more…
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