'Project Rescue Children' Exposed as Latest in Series of Human-Trafficking Hoaxes
The group reportedly faked rescue stories—including one involving a baby saved from traffickers—and lied about where funds were going.
The group reportedly faked rescue stories—including one involving a baby saved from traffickers—and lied about where funds were going.
The Ohio Senator is one of the Party's leading advocates of protectionism, economic planning, and immigration restrictions.
Even if EcoHealth's "basic research" in Wuhan didn't cause the pandemic, it certainly failed in its mission to stop it.
The media, state attorneys general, and the Biden administration are blaming rent-recommendation software for rising rents. Normal stories of supply and demand are the more reasonable explanation.
Washington keeps getting caught pushing the kind of disinformation it claims to oppose.
The eccentric writer cast a long shadow, leaving a mark not only on the world of Bigfoot hunters and UFO buffs but in literature and radical politics.
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The former RNC chair's concession that Biden won "fair and square" did not save her from internal outrage at her support for Trump's stolen-election fantasy.
Our research was cited in a new book on “white rural rage.” But the authors got the research wrong.
Where are the fact-checkers and misinformation cops?
The Supreme Court snubbed Sidney Powell and a court orders Mike Lindell to pay up.
A recent poll finding that 18 percent of all Americans and 32 percent of Republicans believe Taylor Swift is part of a covert conspiracy effort to help Biden win reelection. This is just one example of the broader problem of political ignorance and bias.
The Things Fell Apart host Jon Ronson explains how a 1988 quack medical concept inspired George Floyd's death in 2020 and how Plandemic is basically a rewrite of Star Wars.
He is asking the justices to reject the Colorado Supreme Court's conclusion that he is disqualified from running for president.
As one appeals court judge pointed out, Trump's defense could literally let a president get away with murder.
The fourth-place GOP presidential candidate asserts the existence of "clear evidence" of "entrapment," without providing any.
The year's highlights in blame shifting.
His lawyers say no jury can ever consider charges based on his "official acts" as president, which include his efforts to reverse Joe Biden's election.
The Colorado Supreme Court's reasoning in deciding that Trump is constitutionally disqualified from running for president seems iffy.
The former Trump lawyer could have avoided a massive defamation verdict by presenting his "definitively clear" evidence of election fraud.
The former Trump campaign lawyer re-upped his false claims about two Georgia election workers in the middle of a trial aimed at determining the damages he owes them.
"We're going to build a wall...I am not going to sit there and let sex trafficking go unabated," DeSantis said.
The book blames foreign subversives for ideas long rooted in American life.
The former White House chief of staff is one of several former Trump advisers who are cooperating with prosecutors.
The notion that COVID-19 came from a lab was once touted as misinformation. But now the FBI, the Energy Department, and others agree with Paul.
The election conspiracy theorist struck a deal that allows her to avoid prison by testifying for the prosecution.
The political commentary in Netflix's sci-fi comedy isn't exactly subtle.
The two alleged racketeers complain that irrelevant evidence concerning distinct, uncoordinated conduct aimed at keeping Donald Trump in office will impair their defense.
Special Counsel Jack Smith reportedly is keenly interested in whether the former New York mayor gave Trump legal advice while intoxicated.
The paper worries that "social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation."
It's no mystery why the former president preferred a forum in which his record and positions would face no serious challenge.
The defendants will claim their alleged "racketeering activity" was a sincere effort to rectify election fraud.
When he alleged fraud and sought help from government officials, they say, Trump was exercising rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.
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His state of mind when he tried to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election remains a mystery, perhaps even to him.
The new federal charges against Trump depend on the assumption that his claims were "knowingly false."
Unlike calling Trump's stolen-election fantasy "the Big Lie," his lawyer's statements were demonstrably false assertions of fact.
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Appeals in the January 6 cases raise serious questions about how broadly the statute should be applied.
Republicans who participated in the scheme say they relied on legal advice grounded in historical precedent.
The alleged state and federal felonies involve intent elements that may be difficult to prove.
Eager for the adulation of Trump supporters, the former Fox News host suggests that rigged election software delivered a phony victory to Joe Biden.
That issue is central to Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation of the former president's response to Joe Biden's victory.
The anti-vax environmental lawyer is not worthy of the rehabilitation tour he's getting from pundits and podcasters.
"Nobody is abducting 1- and 4-year-old kids into sex trafficking," says the director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center.
The environmentalist and anti-vaccine activist talks about his presidential run and whether he'd jail climate change skeptics.
The New York Times tries to blame social media for conspiracy theories that have been around for decades. Don't fall for it.