These are our five favourite mad conspiracy theories of the 2024 US election so far… This idea has it that sitting ...

Former broadcaster turned conspiracy theorist Aisling O’Loughlin fears everyone is wearing tracksuits as part of a New World ...

Donald Trump Jr has peddled an unfounded conspiracy theory suggesting that Sean ‘ Diddy ’ Combs was arrested so celebrities who were affiliated with him would endorse his father’s opponent, Kamala ...

Vaccine critic RFK Jr has gone from ‘troubled life’ to candidate for a top job in Trump’s administration. Here’s how.

More than a third of Americans harbour doubts about the integrity of the electoral system, polls show. Read more at ...

Pro-Trump groups have spent years building election denial networks that, combined with Big Tech’s hands-off approach and continued foreign interference, have created a toxic information ecosystem.

Former President Donald Trump has pushed bizarre and at times sinister conspiracy theories at least 330 times on Truth Social ...

In a new section of its hurricane rumor response ... including U.S. camps that imprisoned people of Japanese descent during World War II and the current migrant camps at the U.S.-Mexico border, have ...

Elon Musk, the world ... new “big lie” could be deployed as evidence in challenges to the results; as a pretext for Trump ...

Social scientists and psychologists have tried to develop interventions, particularly for conspiracy theories, but many so far have had practical limitations and meager effects. “It has always been ...

With the U.S. election just days away, officials in the most competitive battleground states are bracing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, threats and possible violence.

A New Jersey man who was among seven people charged with smuggling electronic components to aid Russia’s war effort has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and other charges.