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How Facebook promoted QAnon to a 'North Carolina mom'
Leaked Facebook documents detail how an internal experiment showed how the company was promoting conspiracy theories to users.
[ cnn.com ]College admissions scandal: Abdelaziz and Wilson are first parents to be found guilty
A federal jury on Friday found two wealthy parents charged in a national conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college admissions for their children guilty on all counts, the US Attorney's Office announced.
[ cnn.com ]AT&T played key role in founding of far-right outlet OAN, channel president said
AT&T executives played a key role in the birth of far-right conspiracy channel One America News (OAN), according to court documents reviewed by CNN.
[ cnn.com ]Frances Haugen rips mask off Facebook
Promoting eating disorders. Reportedly facilitating drug and human trafficking. Fueling conspiracy theories and misinformation so dangerous that people have lost not just their minds, but their lives. Allowing extremist groups to coordinate. Those are just a few of the ills Facebook has long stood accused of by whistleblowers, politicians, and critics.
[ cnn.com ]Infowars' Alex Jones responsible for damages triggered by his false claims on Sandy Hook, judge rules
Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who hosts the right-wing commentary website Infowars, was found legally responsible in two lawsuits for damages caused by his claims surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook school mass shooting, according to court documents released Thursday.
[ cnn.com ]Fringe conspiracy theory has now become mainstream
Far right White supremacist groups, conservative media personalities and some Republicans in Congress are trying to inflame nativist feelings among conservative Whites by warning that liberals want immigrants to "replace" native-born Americans. CNN's Sunlen Serfaty reports elements of replacement theory appear to have motivated some of the most heinous recent mass murders.
[ cnn.com ]How anti-vaxxers cling to centuries-old conspiracy theories
Anti-vax resistance has been around for years. In the latest "Reality Check with John Avlon: Extremist Beat," Avlon traces the anti-government, anti-science and religious overtones that have persisted through the history of anti-vax opposition with CNN's Elle Reeve and Donie O'Sullivan.
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: Why the Trumpist election fraud conspiracy just won't die
The Arizona audit was emptier than Al Capone's vault.
[ cnn.com ]GOP rep. calls for 2020 election redo after audit disproves conspiracy theories
CNN's Brianna Keilar rolls the tape on Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar's continued efforts to push conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump even after an audit confirmed Biden's victory in his state.
[ cnn.com ]Roots of QAnon run deeper than you think
The roots of QAnon tap into centuries-old conspiracy theories with echoes of anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic bigotry. In the latest "Reality Check with John Avlon: Extremist Beat," Avlon traces how far back these false beliefs go and explores the present-day implications with CNN's Donie O'Sullivan.
[ cnn.com ]New bombshells show Trump's coup threat was real and hasn't passed
• Watch: John King reacts to 'scary' memo from Trump lawyer • NYT: Trump campaign was aware attorneys' voting conspiracy theories were baseless
[ cnn.com ]Fact-checking Trump's letter to Georgia secretary of state
More than 10 months after the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump is still trying to claim victory in Georgia, a state that flipped from Trump in 2016 to Biden in 2020. Since just days after he lost, Trump has been tossing out debunked conspiracy theories over the election in Georgia, including in a now-notorious call with Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and staff.
[ cnn.com ]NYT: Trump campaign was aware attorneys' voting conspiracy theories were baseless
Officials working for then-President Donald Trump's reelection campaign were aware that the voting machine claims being pushed by pro-Trump attorneys were baseless, court documents obtained by The New York Times show.
[ cnn.com ]Man charged in the shooting of South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh
Authorities have charged a man in the shooting of a prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh in what they allege was a conspiracy to commit insurance fraud.
[ cnn.com ]GOP senator pushes right-wing theory alleging Biden 'mute button'
CNN's Chris Cuomo debunks a right-wing conspiracy theory suggesting someone in the White House has a "mute button" for President Joe Biden.
[ cnn.com ]A tip from a Florida student led to a chilling discovery
Two middle school students have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit a shooting in Florida. CNN's John Berman talks to Sheriff Carmine Marceno about the latest developments.
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: Trump is now backing a conspiracy theorist to run Arizona's elections
On Monday afternoon, Donald Trump endorsed a state representative named Mark Finchem to be the next secretary of state in Arizona.
[ cnn.com ]Feds cite sedition in search warrant for lawyer's phone
Federal prosecutors cited seditious conspiracy as a crime under investigation in a recent search that appears to be related to the US Capitol riot probe, according to a court document supporting the search.
[ cnn.com ]Former Venezuelan official, charged in narco-terrorism conspiracy, is arrested in Spain
Former Venezuelan intelligence official Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, also known as "El Pollo," was arrested on Thursday in Madrid for his alleged involvement in large-scale drug trafficking activities, the US Justice Department announced Friday.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: The pandemic is being weaponized
Every country has Covid skeptics, anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers. The United States is hardly the only place where some people are afraid of vaccines, angry at pandemic restrictions, open to wild conspiracy theories, and distrustful of experts. But there's one key reason why the world's wealthiest nation, home to many of the planet's top public health experts, is the red-hot bubbling epicenter of a pandemic that just won't quit.
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