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Qanon
August 21, 2020
David Roth
Trump’s Cloud of Gossip Has Poisoned America
The president’s insatiable need to traffic in rumor and conspiracy blows larger holes in our shared reality with each passing day.
August 19, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
QAnon Is Using the Anti-Trafficking Movement’s Conspiracy Playbook
Both are swimming in the same false claims and exaggerated campaigns.
August 3, 2020
Magazine
Melissa Gira Grant
The Occult, Terrorizing Politics of QAnon
Q's followers were promised a war. Now, as federal agents snatch people off the streets, they believe it's arrived.
July 14, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Dark Obsessions of QAnon Are Merging With Mainstream Conservatism
With Republican candidates and Trump embracing the strange, child trafficking–fixated movement, it can no longer be dismissed as merely a conspiracy theory.
December 9, 2019
Seth Hettena
The Man Behind the Right Wing’s Favorite Conspiracy Theories
Meet David Booth, the fake news peddler who is helping Russia spread its lies.
October 22, 2019
Matt Farwell
The Forgotten Christian Terror Cult That Presaged Trump’s Memes
How a right-wing conspiracy blossomed in the pre-internet age
July 11, 2019
Alex Shephard
Trump Assembles His Gang of Social-Media Deplorables
Thursday's "summit" shows the increasingly paranoid president is desperate for allies who back him unequivocally.
July 3, 2019
Magazine
J.C. Pan
Democratic Rot and the Origins of American Conspiracism
Crank ideas have always flourished in times of great instability and inequality.
June 3, 2019
Jake Flanagin
How YouTube Became a Breeding Ground for a Diabolical Lizard Cult
A mysterious murder reveals the ways in which the video-sharing site has spread conspiracies of all kinds—very much including those created by rightwing supporters of President Trump.
November 12, 2018
Jeet Heer
Like the Teddy Bear, the Trumpy Bear uses cuteness to mask something terrible.
August 28, 2018
Colin Dickey
A Pioneer of Paranoia
How William Cooper envisioned a web entangling global capitalism, the government, and UFOs, and incubated the politics of conspiracy
August 25, 2018
Jeet Heer
Did Trump intentionally give QAnon conspiracy theorists a photo op or was it a mistake?
August 14, 2018
Jeet Heer
QAnon conspiracy theory was spread by social media hustlers.
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