A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same ...

Mike Rothschild has spent years studying the rise of QAnon and antivaccine conspiracism. After his house in Altadena, ...

Perhaps more importantly, the researchers explained, the wide spread of theories “has even led to accusations of illegitimacy ...

For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. And yet, by this point, many of Trump’s supporters had established that they still care very much about Epstein, and ...

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman have warned on social media in recent weeks of the “Dead Internet Theory,” an idea that the internet is dominated by bot activity ...

Facebook Inc on Tuesday said it would remove any Facebook pages, groups and Instagram accounts representing the unfounded and ...

Alphabet Inc's YouTube said on Thursday it was tightening its rules on conspiracy theory content, including QAnon, that targets individuals and groups. The move is the latest in a series of platform ...