The New Republic’s Jim Geraghty thinks MAGA has gone completely off the deep end with its latest conspiracy theory: that ...

On Dec. 4, 1991, after being abducted and held hostage for nearly seven years by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was freed from captivity. Also on this ...

Kennedy's killer was murdered himself two days later, per police at the time. More than six decades after those fateful shots rang out in Dallas in 1963, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ...

This research was funded by the Australian Research Council through the Australian Laureate Fellowship project Determining the Drivers and Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public ...

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Conservative commentator Candace Owens isn’t letting up on her quest to uncover the alleged “suspicious” circumstances surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk. After her friend was killed two ...

The shocking revelation in the trove of 20,000 emails from the sordid world of Jeffrey Epstein is not that crimes were being committed. It’s more sinister. The emails are disturbing because what they ...

The internet seems to contain a dizzying array of conspiracy theories, which range from the almost credible to the frankly paranoid and bizarre. Some are harmless, like the Lunar Landing classic, or ...

With a genre as old as country music, there are bound to be some rumors that circulate over the years. We found three country music conspiracy theories that have made the rounds, but they most likely ...

A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same fantasies that have been spreading for hundreds of years. The timing was eerie.

Turns out many believers do respond positively when presented with the right evidence and arguments. It’s become a truism that facts alone don’t change people’s minds. Perhaps nowhere is this more ...

Conspiracy theories exploded online in the hours and days after Charlie Kirk’s murder. WIRED reporter David Gilbert hosts a discussion Nina Jankowics, author of “How To Lose The Information War” and ...