How Real Conspiracies Inspired False Rumors About Flooding Black Communities With Fireworks
An amateur fireworks display in Brooklyn from June.Stephanie Keith/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.John Williams had just finished his fourth novel and was trying to figure out how to sell it. His 1967 book, The Man Who Cried I Am, focused on a CIA plot to stave…
Misinformation Efforts Over Kentucky Election Could Be Playbook for 2020
This article was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The right-wing radio personality took to Twitter not long after the polls had closed and it seemed the Democtratic candidate had prevailed in the excruciatingly close race…
The George Soros Conspiracy Theory at the Heart of the Ukraine Scandal
DOBBS: John Solomon reported back in March and I want to get this right that [former US embassy official] George Kent had pressured Ukrainian prosecutors to back off an investigation into AntAC, the anti-corruption action center that George Soros group sponsored. This is a complicated deal here. And it seems that he wanted to keep…
Trump’s Crowdstrike Conspiracy Isn’t Striking with the Crowd
Keith Srakocic/AP President Trump made an appearance at a pro-fracking conference in Pittsburgh yesterday, and I went downtown to keep an eye on the protests and demonstrations. One thing that I’ve been reporting on a bit lately is the crazy Crowdstrike conspiracy theory that President Trump apparently believes. To recap: When the White House released…
Seth Rich’s Family Just Won a Legal Victory Against Fox News
News headlines scroll above the Fox News studios in the News Corporation headquarters building in New York, Aug. 1, 2017. Richard Drew/AP A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that a lawsuit filed by the parents of slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich against Fox News should move forward, finding that the network’s retracted…
Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Still Feels Unbelievable. According to an Expert, It Isn’t.
Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP More than a week after Jeffrey Epstein’s shocking death, which on Friday the New York City medical examiner concluded was a suicide by hanging, it still feels somewhat unbelievable. Even if you’re not in the camp of Trumpian conspiracies, there are a slew of legitimate questions about the the…