Some of this was projection. “We love an avatar more than a specific being,” Pettman writes, “a gestalt abstraction, lifted from all the love stories we’ve imbibed since childhood.” I wanted this guy ...

On Sept. 27, President Donald Trump shared an apparently AI-generated video of himself promoting a cure-all "medbed" – a medical conspiracy theory. The video, which has since been deleted from his ...

Donald Trump posted a clip promoting new “med bed” hospitals. These hospitals, an apparently AI version of Trump promised in the video, would be “equipped with the most advanced technology in the ...

A sudden stop just as President Trump stepped on the stairs may have been caused by the triggering of a safety mechanism, the U.N. said. By Ashley Ahn An escalator malfunction that required President ...

Prominent economist Paul Samuelson wrote in Newsweek in 1966, “Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.” One could say something similar ...

Just over a week after Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University, CNN reporter Marshall Cohen said social media is getting “really ugly” with conspiracy theories about the ...

Priscilla Presley isn’t entertaining any conspiracy theories. Nearly five decades after her ex-husband Elvis Presley died of heart failure, the 80-year-old is shutting down online speculation that the ...

Fake photos. False claims. Wild conspiracy theories. The public murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, captured in gruesome footage that spread around the world, has set off an ...

Baseless conspiracy theories about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk have exploded on social media in the week since the shooting, with partisans from both sides pushing a dizzying ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed wild conspiracy theories that his government was involved in Charlie Kirk’s assassination — floating the idea that the lies could be Qatari-funded.

1 Department of Physical Therapy, Movement & Rehabilitation Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States 2 Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States A ...

Within hours of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, edited videos began to spread online. Some focused on the moment Kirk was shot — zooming in on the obviously fatal wound to ...