Over the last few years, I’ve spoken to hundreds — possibly thousands — of Americans whose lives have become consumed by conspiracy theories. It’s easy, perhaps natural, for us to want to ...

feeding into paranoid and dangerous conspiracy theories. Johnson asks as though they’re open questions: “What actually happened on 9/11? What do we know? What is being covered up?” ...

Phoenix Ikner once spent more than an hour on his YouTube channel defending a far-right racist conspiracy theory — the same ... said he thought he was a “good guy” back then.

This was an excuse to showcase some wild new ideas that poked fun at long running character theories like Ralph’s real father, and one that saw an insect queen like Wise Guy giving birth to ...

Barstool Sports founder and known New England Patriots superfan Dave Portnoy has a unique conspiracy theory about Bill Belichick and his girlfriend Jordon Hudson. Belichick and Hudson have been ...

On October 12, 1969, the “Paul is dead” conspiracy theory was born, and on April 30, 2019, we lost the man who kickstarted the whole thing. Russ Gibb was an eccentric Michigan disc jockey and ...

Elected Republicans now spend taxpayer money hyping debunked conspiracy theories, while popular MAGA influencers keep up a steady stream of ever-stranger claims that mysterious forces run the ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote ...