28 h. ago Trump and Musk have ushered in a terrible era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it | Julia Steinberger

The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop thisEverything is moving too fast. The Trump-Musk administration is tearing through US government, universities and health organisations, firing tens of thousands of employees, eliminating billons in funding. The scope and speed of the attack is dizzying. It is almost impossible to keep up with the ongoing destruction, let alone to organise the resistance. None of this is accidental.We need to understand the origins of the Trump blitzkrieg to counter it in the US and prevent it from spreading abroad. The speed of the attack can be traced to Trump strategist and “accelerationist” Steve Bannon, and aligns with his information warfare tactic to “flood the zone” to confuse, disengage and disorient. Whether on climate or Covid, rumours, lies and conspiracy theories create a chaotic cacophony, leaving the public disoriented, fearful and prey to oversimple Trumpist messages: bla...

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52 h. ago Elon, Beyoncé and a flat earth? New study finds that 4 in 5 Gen Zs believe in conspiracy theories

A new study has revealed that nearly 80 per cent of Gen Zs admit to believing conspiracy theories, with as many as 41 per cent actively spreading them

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3 d. ago Jurgen Klopp sparks Leeds conspiracy theory after brutal Red Bull decision

RB Leipzig sacked manager Marco Rose on Sunday as Jurgen Klopp made his first major managerial decision and it's sent conspiracy theorists into overdrive thinking Leeds United could be affected

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7 d. ago Who is Marjorie Taylor Greene? The US politician who told a UK journalist to 'go home'

Right-wing politician and conspiracy theorist laid into a UK journalist in an abusive rant

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7 d. ago Trump administration at ‘war’ with mRNA technology: scientists alarmed vaccine skeptics could kill research

Public health experts are sounding the alarm over recent move by the NIH to collect information about funding for research into mRNA technologyA cutting-edge technology expected to foster new medical breakthroughs in treatments for cancers and infectious disease is being treated “like a four-letter word” inside the Trump administration, causing panic among scientists who fear Trump-appointed health officials, driven by misinformation and conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 vaccine, will cut critical research in the field.Scientists and public health experts interviewed by the Guardian are sounding the alarm over a recent move by the National Institutes of Health to collect information about funding for research into mRNA technology. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Horror Greggs fire days before opening sparks Putin and Russia conspiracy theories

A fire in a Coventry Greggs on Friday (March 21) has sparked a host of wild conspiracy theories, with internet sleuths pointing the finger at Russian dictator Vladimir Putin

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1 week ago ‘It’s a new kind of prison’: Amanda Knox on redemption, rage – and her unlikely friendship with the prosecutor who hounded her

Ten years ago she was finally cleared of the brutal murder of her housemate Meredith Kercher in Perugia. But is Knox really free?• ‘I call us the Sisterhood of Ill Repute’: read an exclusive extract from her new memoirAmanda Knox says she is one of the lucky ones. She and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito had their convictions for the murder of Meredith Kercher overturned for the second and final time in 2015. She now presents a successful podcast called Labyrinths, is a TV producer and bestselling author, does standup comedy and campaigns against miscarriages of justice. She is married to Christopher Robinson, a writer, whom she adores, and they have two gorgeous toddlers. Life could not be much better or fuller. Her new book is called Free. But it could just as easily be called Still Not Free.Knox’s search for freedom has led her down surprising paths. Most surprising was her decision to write to and then befriend Giuliano Mignini, the conspiracy-theorist prosecutor who crea...

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1 week ago Kate and Prince William's 'nightmare five years' was 'make or break'

The Prince and Princess of Wales have faced numerous challenges in recent years, with William and Kate battling health concerns, family scandals and brutal conspiracy theories

Politics

1 week ago Brigitte Macron's daughter Tiphaine Auziere falls for French TV 'bearded bad boy' who blames president Macron for axing his controversial show that peddled conspiracy theories

The news of the couple's romance is said to have shocked the Presidential Palace.

Politics

1 week ago Close advisers to Pope Francis issue latest health update on the Pontiff

The 88-year-old has spent almost five weeks in Rome's Gemelli Hospital after a complex lung infection turned into pneumonia in both lungs

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1 week ago Heathrow airport fire conspiracy theories from sinister sabotage to 'Russian involvement'

As Heathrow remains shut all day, people across the world are wondering how this could happen branding it "sinister" and some even saying 'has anyone seen Vladimir Putin'

Society

2 w. ago Vatican battles wave of Pope Francis conspiracy theories as 'toxic' sceptics claim ailing pontiff is 'really dead' and 'papal deep state' is using 'fake audio' of his voice to hide the news

Italian social media users have flooded platforms with wild suggestions that the leader of the Catholic Church is dead and that the papal 'deep state' is hiding the news.

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2 w. ago Government secrecy fuelled Southport attack conspiracy theories, say Tories

Labour minister Lucy Rigby denied an accusation by Helen Grant that the Government accelerated conspiracy theories around the attack last year.

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2 w. ago Newly released JFK assassination files reveal more about CIA but don't yet point to conspiracies

Newly released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 are giving curious readers more details Wednesday into Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but didn’t initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK

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2 w. ago Conspiracy theories ignite online as NASA's astronauts return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams splashed down off the coast of Florida on Monday - but some commentators aren't convinced by the footage.

Technology

2 w. ago JFK files released by Donald Trump after decades of being kept secret

US president Donald Trump has released 80,000 pages of documents relating to the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy following decades of conspiracy theories about his death

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2 w. ago MATT RIDLEY: The media and scientific establishments called me a conspiracy theorist for insisting Covid leaked from a lab. Why do they STILL have their heads in the sand?

The CIA, FBI, German intelligence and the former head of MI6 all say they think Covid started with a lab leak. Why do members of the scientific and media establishments still have their heads in the sand?

Science

2 w. ago Netflix horror slammed by Donald Trump that was banned in US drops on Netflix UK

Controversial horror film, The Hunt, was first released in 2020, however Donald Trump took offence over the flick, which features a group of Make America Great Again conspiracy theorists

Events

2 w. ago Wildest JFK conspiracy theories as Trump set to release files – from UFOs to Illuminati

With Donald Trump preparing to release more than 80,000 pages of files relating to the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, we look at some of the wildest conspiracy theories

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2 w. ago Conspiracy theorists spark boycott of Lurpak after claiming billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates puts additives in popular butter

Arla Foods controversially announced in late November that 30 of its farms would test Bovaer, a methane-suppressing feed that contributes to climate change.

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