After the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, TikTok and YouTube creators see an opportunity. After the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, TikTok and YouTube creators see an ...

Neither political party is immune to conspiracy theories in a time of intense distrust in government and media, experts say After an armed man attempted to breach the ballroom where Donald Trump was ...

Some said the attack was “staged” to distract from Donald Trump’s bad polling numbers or his deeply unpopular war with Iran. Reporter A wave of misinformation has surged online in the aftermath of the ...

About six hours after a shooter stormed the White House correspondents’ dinner, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) suggested an alternative hypothesis: It was all a hoax. “Has there ever been a president ...

In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, influencers, pundits, and random posters lit up social media platforms like X, Bluesky, and ...

A truism of life — right up there with “don’t read the comments” — is that what goes around comes around. Put another way, if you live by the sword, you will eventually die by the sword. For more than ...

Perhaps no modern politician has done more to mainstream conspiracy theories than President Donald Trump. After effectively launching his career in Republican politics with false “birther” claims ...

Jim Carrey, Selena Gomez and Avril Lavigne are some of the stars who have found themselves at the center of viral theories circulating on social media. By Carly Thomas Senior Editor, Digital The ...

The conspiracy theories of our time seem fixated on an absence of clues. By Peter C. Baker In Nick Shirley’s mega-viral YouTube videos alleging social-services fraud in Minnesota, the important piece ...

The Epstein files were always going to be a gift to conspiracy theorists, and have indeed resulted in a raft of brand new theories, including one that has Epstein alive and well and living in Israel.

Some people are convinced there are secret cities hidden under Antarctica. Others swear the government can control hurricanes. Then there are people who still can’t believe that we landed on the moon.

Today's guest is Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of the new book Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters. Shermer explains how the release of the ...