2020 Candidate Michael Bennet Wants to Sanction Russia for Its Memes
Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly via Zuma Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is making Russian election meddling a new focus of his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. On Wednesday he released Dividing America: How Russia Hacked Social Media and Democracy, a book examining attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election by manipulating social media platforms including…
Michael Flynn Wants a Judge to Allow Him to Travel to a Conference Held by a QAnon Fan
Michael Flynn leaves court on June 24, 2019 in Washington.Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images Michael Flynn wants a judge to allow him to travel to Atlanta to raise money at an event organized by a QAnon supporter. Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, briefly served as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor before he…
How QAnon Will Outlive 8Chan
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Wire The infamous imageboard 8chan went off the internet last week after a white-supremacist shooter killed 22 people in El Paso, and a manifesto he’d written was posted on the site. It was the third time in under five months that a racist shooter’s writing or media had appeared on the imageboard. While…
Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos Are Scheduled to Speak at a Conference Organized by a QAnon Supporter
Alex Wong/Getty, Alex Wroblewski/Getty Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos, two former Trump foreign policy aides who both agreed in late 2017 to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, appear to have found some new allies: QAnon conspiracy theorists. Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, briefly served…
It’s Not Just Fox Pumping Out the Racist “Replacement” Conspiracy. Here Are 15 Republicans Fanning the Flames.
J. Scott Applewhite / AP Earlier this month, a mass shooter killed 22 and injured 24 others at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, specifically targeting Latino immigrants; the shooter had a manifesto, in which he mentioned multiple times the “great replacement,” a racist theory—popular among white supremacists—that white people will be replaced by people…
Trump Retweets Conspiracy Theory That Implicates Clintons in Jeffrey Epstein’s Death
Chen Mengtong/China News Service Hours after Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent death by suicide, President Donald Trump retweeted a conspiracy theory alleging the Clinton family’s involvement in killing the accused sex trafficker. “Died of SUICIDE on 24/7 SUICIDE WATCH ? Yeah right!” read the post from comedian Terrence K. Williams. “#JefferyEpstein had information on Bill Clinton &…