Reddit Takes Over Popular Subreddit Amid Moderator Protest
Reddit followed through on its threat to take over subreddits if they did not reopen to the public with its takeover of r/malefashionadvice on Thursday. Prior to closing down in…
Anonymous Disney Imagineer Purportedly Confirms Donald Trump Animatronic Is Hillary Clinton
Stranger things have happened, but this one conspiracy theory might actually be true. Alex Goldman, the former host of the once-heralded, now-defunct podcast Reply All, may have just cracked the…
Whistleblower’s Alleged UFO Leak Piques Congress’ Curiosity
Advertisement Advertisement The move to meet comes after The Debrief reported on the supposedly leaked info on Monday. According to the outlet, David Charles Grusch, a veteran of the National…
Polling the Internet: Disinformation or Not?
This week, the New York Times reported that a tranche of classified material had leaked to the web. The documents, which were purported to involve the Pentagon and NATO’s military…
‘Shoot. It. Down.’ How Washington Freaked Out About the Chinese Spy Balloon
Photo: AP/Getty/Gizmodo (Getty Images) Late Thursday night, a giant, mysterious balloon floated over the United States, apparently by way of the Pacific Ocean all the way to sensitive air space…
Facebook Is Bringing Back Trump
Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Donald Trump is coming back to Facebook and Instagram. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, made the announcement late Wednesday, a little more than two years after…
QAnon isn’t about Q, and 6 other things we learned from ‘The Storm is Upon Us’
If you’re feeling Q’d out, you’re not alone. I, for one, would have been happy to leave my reading about the pro-Trump online conspiracy theory QAnon back in the Trump…
A conspiracy theory about a party supply store went viral on TikTok. Then the police showed up.
When you hear the words “viral TikTok video,” you probably think about funny challenges and pop song lip syncs. But there’s another type of content going viral on TikTok: Conspiracy…
QAnon believers go undercover to spread conspiracies online…and it’s working
Have you noticed less QAnon content on social media lately? Yes, it’s true that many online platforms have banned promoters of the right-wing conspiracy theory turned violent movement. But, many…
Punk band’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were deleted after QAnon mix-up
“NO CONSPIRACY THEORY/SCIENCE DENYING HERE!,” reads one California punk band’s Facebook page. It continues: “Q freaks move along this page is NOT for you!” This may seem like a bizarre…