Conspiracy theories

Journalists that were in attendance for the White House Correspondents Dinner prepare for a press briefing at the Washington Hilton following an incident that disrupted the event, Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Reporters covered the correspondents’ dinner shooting in real time. Conspiracy theories still spread

Conspiracy theories flooded the internet minutes after the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner attended by President Donald Trump.

Dominion Voting ballot counting machines are lined up at a Torrance County warehouse during a testing of election equipment in Estancia, N.M., Sept. 29, 2022.(AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)

Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories

Attorney General Pam Bondi, left, listens as President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

With Epstein conspiracy theories, Trump faces a crisis of his own making

A plane flies over Oakland Alameda Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Unsubstantiated ‘chemtrail’ conspiracy theories lead to legislation proposed in US statehouses

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

White House slashing staff in major overhaul of National Security Council, officials say

Exclusive: In a Ukrainian bomb shelter, Laura Loomer explains shift on Russia’s war

Laura Loomer became infamous for spreading conspiracy theories online. Now, as she travels across Ukraine to see the damage inflicted by Russia in its yearslong war, she wants to admit that she fell for some falsehoods of her own. (AP video shot by Serhii Rozov and Zhenya Ocheretyany)

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump fires NSC officials a day after far-right activist raises concerns to him about staff loyalty

This Nov. 22, 1963 file photo shows President John F. Kennedy riding in motorcade with first lady Jacqueline Kenndy in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo, file)

Newly released JFK assassination files reveal more about CIA but don’t yet point to conspiracies

New election official picked in Arizona county where leaders embraced conspiracy theories

Cochise County Recorder David Stevens sits for a portrait inside his office in Bisbee, Ariz., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Alberto Mariani, File)

Official in Arizona county where some leaders embraced voting conspiracy theories plans to resign

Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, N.C., surrenders to police, in Washington, Dec. 4, 2016. (Sathi Soma via AP, File)

‘Pizzagate’ gunman killed by police in North Carolina after traffic stop, authorities say

Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab discusses his newly launched campaign for the Republican nomination for governor during an interview with The Associated Press, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas’ top elections official is running for governor after pushing back on conspiracy theories

A copy of the satirical outlet The Onion is seen Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Little Rock, Ark. (AP Photo/Jill Bleed)

Fighting conspiracy theories with comedy? That’s what the Onion hopes after its purchase of Infowars

FILE - Rioters storm the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Election threats persist four years after far-right extremists stormed the US Capitol

FILE - A voter fills out her ballot for the Michigan primary election in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Election officials are fighting a tsunami of voting conspiracy theories

Business are seen in a debris field in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in Chimney Rock Village, N.C. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

After the deluge, the lies: Misinformation and hoaxes about Helene cloud the recovery

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, arrives with his wife Usha Vance, before speaking at a campaign event, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024 in Eau Claire, Wis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

JD Vance once said conspiracy theories were idiotic. As Trump’s VP pick he is embracing them

Lynne Patton, Laura Loomer and Corey Lewandowski watch as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump visits the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Laura Loomer, who promoted a 9/11 conspiracy theory, joins Trump for ceremonies marking the attacks

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump puts his hand to his ear after speaking at the National Guard Association of the United States' 146th General Conference, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Trump shares social media posts with QAnon phrases and calls for jailing lawmakers, special counsel

Supporters cheer as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

‘One screen, two movies': Conflicting conspiracy theories emerge from the Trump rally shooting

A man charged with membership of a terrorist organization and the preparation of a so-called high treasonous enterprise is led into the courtroom at the Higher Regional Court in Munich, Germany, Tuesday June 18, 2024. The third nationwide trial against suspected "Reich Citizens" of the group around Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss begins at the Munich Higher Regional Court (OLG). Eight suspected members of the group are to be tried in Munich. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

A third trial of suspects in an alleged far-right coup plot opens in Germany

FILE - Taylor Swift stands on the field after an AFC Championship NFL football game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, in Baltimore. Taylor Swift, who is holding concerts in Japan, will make it in time for the Super Bowl to see her partner and football superstar Travis Kelce play. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Conspiracy theories swirl around Taylor Swift. These Republican voters say they don’t care

Taylor Swift kisses Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce after an AFC Championship NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, in Baltimore. The Kansas City Chiefs won 17-10. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

How Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce became the focus of baseless political conspiracy theories

FILE - Silhouettes of people are seen on an American flag as President Joe Biden speaks at Max S. Hayes Hight School, Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in Cleveland. Conspiracy theories are nothing new. Humans have always speculated about secret motives and plots as a way to understand their world and avoid danger. But these days, conspiracy theories and those who believe them seem to be playing an outsized role in our politics and culture. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Takeaways from the AP’s look at the role of conspiracy theories in American politics and society

FILE - Rays of sunlight pierce through the clouds Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, above homes burned by wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii. Days after Maui's wildfires killed scores of people and destroyed 2,000 homes, a shocking claim spread with alarming speed on YouTube and TikTok: The blaze was set deliberately, using futuristic energy weapons developed by the U.S. military. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: ‘What happens when no one believes anything anymore?’

An Amish woman from Ohio floats with a pool noodle among BioHealing generators at the Tesla Wellness Hotel and MedBed Center on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, in Butler, Pa. Tesla Biohealing — which has no connection to the car company — is part of a growth industry marketing unproven cures and treatments to conspiracy theorists and others who have grown distrustful of science and medicine. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Miracle cures: Online conspiracy theories are creating a new age of unproven medical treatments

Ramona stands for a portrait Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Cordova, Tenn. “The world is scary enough without conspiracy theories,” she says. “But when you believe them, at least they can give you answers. If you’re scared of the unknown,” conspiracy theories offer “an answer, no matter how farfetched it is.” (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Days of Darkness: How one woman escaped the conspiracy theory trap that has ensnared millions

FILE - Jacob Anthony Chansley, who also goes by the name Jake Angeli, a Qanon believer speaks to a crowd of President Donald Trump supporters outside of the Maricopa County Recorder's Office where votes in the general election are being counted, in Phoenix on Nov. 5, 2020. From the Salem witch trials to fears of the Illuminati to the Red Scare to QAnon, conspiracy theories have always served as dark counter programming to the American story taught in history books. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Conspiracy Theories: Why we want to believe when the facts often aren’t there

FILE - The Capitol is seen in Washington, early Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. Since the Salem Witch Trials, tales of dark plots and secret organizations have emerged again and again in America, influencing public opinion and even the outcome of elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Even before the revolution, America was a nation of conspiracy theorists

A portrait of John Birch Society founder, Robert Welch, hangs behind CEO Bill Hahn, left, and Art Thompson, a retired Society president, at the organization's headquarters in Appleton, Wis., Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. “As Mr. Welch came out with on Day One: There is a conspiracy,” Hahn says. “It’s no different today than it was back in December 1958.” (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Inside the John Birch Society, a Cold War-era fringe group that’s still alive in small town Wisconsin

FILE - Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump gather on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Ray Epps, a former Arizona resident who was targeted by right-wing conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol riot, was sentenced on Tuesday to a year of probation for joining the Jan. 6, 2021 attack by a mob of fellow Donald Trump supporters. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Prosecutors recommend six months in prison for a man at the center of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, in Durham, N.H. Trump is facing criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to argue that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country. Trump insists he had no idea that one of the world’s most reviled and infamous figures once used similar words. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha, File)

Trump says he didn’t know his immigration rhetoric echoes Hitler. That’s part of a broader pattern

FILE - Masked police officers lead Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss, front center, to a police vehicle during a raid against so-called 'Reich citizens' in Frankfurt, Germany, on Dec. 7, 2022. German prosecutors said Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, they have filed terrorism charges against 27 people, including a self-styled prince and a former far-right lawmaker, in connection with an alleged plot to topple the government that came to light with a slew of arrests a year ago. Some of the suspects are also charged with “preparation of high treasonous undertaking.” They include Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss, whom the group allegedly planned to install as Germany's new leader, and Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, a judge and former lawmaker with the far-right Alternative for Germany party. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)

German prosecutors indict 27 people in connection with an alleged far-right coup plot

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2016 photo, flowers and notes left by well-wishers outside a pizza restaurant in northwest Washington, D.C.,are shown, where a North Carolina man fired an assault rifle multiple times as he attempted to "self-investigate" the conspiracy theory known as "Pizzagate. On Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming an expert who debunked the “pizzagate” conspiracy theory has been jailed for possessing child sexual abuse images. (AP Photo/Jessica Gresko, File)

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FILE - Violent rioters supporting President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. A former Republican legislative candidate who traveled to Washington for former President Donald Trump's “Stop the Steal” rally was arrested Friday, July 21, 2023, and charged with federal crimes for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot, officials said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Fears of political violence are growing as the 2024 campaign heats up and conspiracy theories evolve

FILE – David DePape is shown in Berkeley, Calif., on Dec. 13, 2013. A jury on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023 convicted DePape who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband with a hammer of federal charges. The jury found DePape guilty of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official. (Michael Short/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

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