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In his litany of complaints about the federal government, Elon Musk has reserved special ire for the Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates...
In the lead-up to Donald Trump’s second inauguration, professional conspiracy peddlers are hard at work finding ways to gin up panic and...
After a grueling hearing that stretched over two days, a federal bankruptcy judge declined to approve the sale of Infowars to Global Tetrahedron, LLC,...
Mother Jones illustration; Andy Kropa/Invision/AP For the past month, Vice co-founder and CEO Shane Smith has had a remarkable number of questions,...
Mother Jones illustration; NOAA/Zuma In 2016, Jarrod Fidden, an Australian entrepreneur living in Ireland, announced that he’d launched a dating...
Carol Guzy/Zuma In recent days, an invitation from people affiliated with American Values 2024, a super-PAC that supported Robert F. Kennedy...
Mother Jones illustration; Lev Radin/Zuma Of the many absurd things Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said over the years—about vaccines, about 5G...
Pete Hegseth itnerviews Donald Trump in 2017. Weekend Fox News host Pete Hegseth has already been an exceedingly controversial choice as Donald...
Alex Jones speaks outside of the Dirksen building on Capitol Hill in Washington in September 2018. Jose Luis Magana/AP On Thursday afternoon, a...
Robin Rayne/Zuma Public health experts, physicians, and scientists responded with fury and disgust to the news that Donald Trump will nominate...
Dominic Gwinn/Zuma Conspiracy mega-site Infowars, whose founder and main host Alex Jones has become the face of monetized suspicion in America, has...
Bob Daemmrich/Zuma The court-ordered auction of conspiracy kingpin Alex Jones’ company Infowars took place on Wednesday. By late morning Texas...
At an event late last week in Arizona, anti-vaccine activist and Donald Trump transition team member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he’d fire and...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty In the days following Donald Trump’s clear win, conspiracy theories about how votes were tampered with or how...
Researchers are investigating the source of the messages. Mother Jones illustration The day after Election Day, predominantly Black recipients in...
Jen Golbeck/SOPA/Zuma The elites of the anti-vaccine, “medical freedom” world saw the presidential election unfold at a hotel watch party in...
Jen Golbeck/SOPA/Zuma There’s no overstating how good election night was for Elon Musk. With Donald Trump’s victory, Musk—already the richest...
Something unusual happened the other week, when podcasting megastar Joe Rogan sat down with Ohio Senator and Republican vice presidential candidate JD...
The FBI issued a warning on Election Day about a hoax video that purports to be a news clip relaying a warning from the agency warning of a “high...
A 2015 peace march attended by members of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie. Sarah Crosby/Erie Times-News/AP Cliff Maloney is the founder of...
Customers in a Springfield, Ohio Haitian restaurant. Jessie Wardarski/AP A video purporting to show recently arrived Haitian immigrants illegally...
Jen Golbeck/SOPA Images/Zuma In the days leading up to the election, the firehose of lies, half–truths, dumb memes, inflammatory political...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. Mother Jones illustration; Michael M. Santiago/Getty “Don’t you want a...
Steve Helber/AP Days after helping launch a clearly false claim about vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, a disinformation peddler with a huge...
Instagram In 2020, as for so many people, things shifted for Jessica Reed Kraus. A southern-California based lifestyle blogger who got her start...
Angelina Katsanis/TNS/Zuma In recent days, a number of news sites that rely heavily on aggregation have posted stories about Minnesota governor and...
FEMA workers in Asheville, North Carolina Madeleine Cook/FEMA/Planet Pix via Zuma The scale and depth of the lies about Hurricane Helene have been...
Michael Brochstein/Zuma The news that New York Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted came as a surprise to precisely no one. For one thing, federal...
Briana Sanchez/Zuma A Texas bankruptcy judge ruled on Tuesday that a plan to sell the assets of Alex Jones’ company Free Speech Systems, the...
Supporters of Nick Fuentes wait to hear him speak in Detroit this June. Adam J. Dewey/NurPhoto/AP Nick Fuentes is a white supremacist, an...
Mother Jones; X.com The most striking thing about Lauren Chen, in hindsight, is how she managed to be everywhere. Until earlier this month, when...
Gripas Yuri/Abaca/Zuma In the week following the presidential debate, Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene have all...
Mother Jones; Getty A contributor for Tenet Media announced on Twitter Thursday night that the company has abruptly shuttered, one day after the...
Mother Jones; Getty A federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday alleges that a Tennessee-based media company which played home to several prominent...
Mother Jones illustration; Jordan Strauss∕AP In an alterna t e universe where you had no access to any source of information beyond Elon...
From left: Dan Bilzerian, Nick Fuentes, Sneako, Tristan Tate, and Andrew Tate Mother Jones; Zuma; Wikimedia A number of prominent figures on the...
Mother Jones; Marc Piasecki/Getty Lawyers representing Elon Musk and X, previously known as Twitter, have quietly begun sending subpoenas to a host...
Lev Radin/Zuma Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign hosted an online panel Wednesday on the future of AI...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma A heavily publicized Twitter conversation between Elon Musk and Donald Trump on Monday night began with an immediate...
Mother Jones illustration; Anna Moneymaker/Getty In recent weeks, in his prolific activity on X, the social network he owns, Elon Musk has shared a...
Mother Jones illustration; Ciro Fusco/ANSA/Zuma, Yan Linyun/Xinhua/Zuma By the time JK Rowling, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump were falsely referring...
Jimmy Villalta/Zuma The aftermath of Sunday’s elections in Venezuela has been sustained chaos, with both incumbent President Nicolás Maduro and...
Since its founding in the 1970s, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has been a chance to take the temperature of Republican politics....
Agents are said to have visited at least one senior member of the group, sources tell VICE News.
Weinstein repeated discredited, homophobic theories to Rogan about HIV not being the cause of AIDS, alarming and infuriating public health...
The organization says it has cut ties with its disgraced founder and CEO. Jeff Frazier, charged with ushering in a new era, has a long and complex...
As “tunnelgate” circulates on Twitter, the far right and the broader conspiratorial universe seize on an irresistible combination of words.
As allies abandon him, the anti-trafficking star’s disgrace appears to have prematurely ended the career of Utah’s attorney general, a close...