Conspiracy theory

The US Apollo missions sent astronauts to the moon on multiple occasions between 1969 and 1972. Some believe these events were faked. Photo: Flickr

Tech

AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?

Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it’s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving.

Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump is assisted by security personnel after gunfire rang out during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, US, July 13, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

USA

We fact-checked some of the rumours spreading online about the Trump assassination attempt

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk speaks during the Model S Beta Event held at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California October 1, 2011. REUTERS/Stephen Lam

Politics

Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump

Mural of Malcolm X and MLK Jr. "African Amalgamation of Ubiquity," by Curtis Lewis, on the side wall of Operation Get Down, a drug rehabilitation center, 9980 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, 2008. Photo: Bloomberg.

Panorama

Sometimes even conspiracy theorists have a point

What do they really believe? Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images North America

Panorama

What does QAnon stand for?

A woman looks at her mobile phone next to a 5G sign at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 25, 2019/ Reuters

World+Biz

UK dismisses 5G coronavirus claims as ‘nonsense’

Coronavirus chronicle

Truth behind the conspiracy theory of Harvard professor's arrest

Coronavirus chronicle