The Seth Rich conspiracy theory is finally retracted

Jerome Corsi has issued a formal retraction on InfoWars for his role in spreading the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. The retraction/apology is currently being featured on the front page of InfoWars. pic.twitter.com/v3E50pidb5
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 4, 2019

Jerome Corsi and InfoWars retract and apologize for spreading Seth Rich DNC murder conspiracy theory: “Dr. Corsi acknowledges that his allegations were not based upon any independent factual knowledge" https://t.co/KALh6Xh0Hd
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 4, 2019

Fox's "news" side:
1) Killed their Stormy Daniels story.
2) Published their Seth Rich story.

After the Rich story fell apart, Fox retracted it, said they were investigating what went wrong, never explained what happened, and held no one accountable.
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) March 5, 2019

As this very good timeline from @willsommer points out, both Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone knew Seth Rich had nothing to do with the DNC hack while they were still publicly claiming he was the one who gave it to Wikileaks.https://t.co/Mzf7B9pt8y
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 4, 2019

The latest terrible QAnon stuff

Today, again, was supposed to be D-Day for Qanon. It's getting awfully late in the day for the parade of Hillary Clinton and half of Hollywood in shackles they believe is coming.

Oh well! Onto the next one!

(Which Q said, no joke, is in either two or four days.) https://t.co/k36vzKRkFz
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 19, 2019

Michael Flynn’s Family Is at War With Each Other Over QAnon https://t.co/ynjJmaRZp0
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 18, 2019

Trump Tweets QAnon, Pizzagate Conspiracy Theorists’ Content https://t.co/YOm1Zi9bb5
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 18, 2019

New from me: A Qanon book that alleges the US government created both AIDS and Monsters Inc. (as a tutorial on how to do eat children) is up to No. 56 of all books purchased.

It’s in recommendation carousels. And Amazon will not comment on any of this.https://t.co/2HjQrlWiW8
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 5, 2019

QAnon people are going wild with a fake news story claiming George Soros was arrested on Sunday. But the savvier QAnon promoters are withholding judgment for now—probably a good idea, since the article also claims that Soros possesses a magical teleporter. https://t.co/5nf68Q0taq
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) February 5, 2019

A top QAnon promoter is predicting QAnon fans will start handing out "vigilante justice" if the promised mass arrests of Democrats don't happen soon. https://t.co/IIx3ZkKfES
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) February 4, 2019

Asked about his tweet, Gorka told The Daily Beast to “go outside and lick a metal street lamp.” Thursday’s temperature in Washington, D.C. is 18 degrees Fahrenheit. https://t.co/5dLekI2Krx
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 31, 2019

Trouble in QAnon world. Praying Medic, a major QAnon promoter who has been retweeted by Hannity, is now urging disappointed believers not to focus so much on the mass arrests they were promised. pic.twitter.com/f2aup526ky
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 3, 2019

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort appears to employ a pastry chef who frequently posts online about her belief in the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory https://t.co/tjyobgid7W
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 22, 2019

Great tweet on a dumb conspiracy theory

Is this real? Is anyone that dumb? The wrong route and the wrong year?

They don’t make conspiracy theories like they used to. pic.twitter.com/zrfjs66znl

— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) December 30, 2018

Right wing conspiracy – the mother fleeing tear gas photo was staged

The conspiracy theorists can’t accept the truth.

examples (and there are more if you search Twitter for fake photo):

Word to the #Media.

Next time you want to stage a fake photo-up of an Hispanic mother and her kids running from tear gas, don't put her in a Disney "Frozen" shirt and don't put the 5 year old's in diapers.

Something about Disney doesn't scream, "starving 3rd world." pic.twitter.com/KW1WflZPIl

— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 26, 2018

Hey Fake News we are on to you. You are wasting your time trying to divide America. We are stronger and better than that!

Hoaxed: The 'Illegal Alien Mom with Barefoot Kids' Photo was a Setup – Another Staged #FakeNews Production

https://t.co/dBIZHGZpQW via @gatewaypundit

— ❌GuysForTrump❌ (@GaysForTrumpFL) November 26, 2018

the facts:

Dear Trump supporters,

This is a real photograph. NOT a fake. The photographer is Kim Kyung-Hoon. The news agency is @Reuters. Reuters was founded in 1851. You know almost a hundred years before Trump. They are a news agency. Not the ghost and goblins deep state. THIS HAPPENED. pic.twitter.com/5HpJ923YuU

— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) November 26, 2018

A conspiracy theory bubbling in right-wing media today: The idea that the widely-circulated photo of a migrant woman with two children at the border was "hoaxed" or "staged." pic.twitter.com/Padb9xynLu

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 26, 2018

A photograph of a woman and two children in diapers fleeing a smoking tear gas canister at the U.S.-Mexico border has prompted outrage at American authorities and the Trump administration https://t.co/30LPCAHrjP

— NYT National News (@NYTNational) November 27, 2018

Right wing conspiracy theories

Some corners of the right-wing internet are already cooking up a grand conspiracy theory to explain the fires in California: airborne laser attacks meant to clear the way for high-speed rail https://t.co/0eGCBRbw3v

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 17, 2018

What’s alarming about this conspiracy is that it’s being driven by people who once held senior positions in the intelligence community and still have access to members of the government https://t.co/HwgXyYRlhC

— POLITICO (@politico) November 17, 2018

The right wing has perfected the art of combining conspiracy theories with facts https://t.co/sIZKh0W4Ed

— Salon (@Salon) October 31, 2018

"The Republican Party today has become a vast repository of conspiracy theories, fake news, false accusations and paranoid fantasies."

—@FareedZakaria https://t.co/Teu5tUb01W

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 3, 2018

The right’s continued reliance on conspiracy theories points to a deeper, party-wide psychosis: The GOP has built a movement around blaming black and brown Americans, immigrants, and feminists for its constituents’ economic woes. https://t.co/KLbFASAnbz pic.twitter.com/fYvpLN8Uo9

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) November 14, 2018

Republicans and conspiracy theories

"The Republican Party today has become a vast repository of conspiracy theories, fake news, false accusations and paranoid fantasies."

—@FareedZakaria https://t.co/Teu5tUb01W

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 3, 2018

“The Incitement Industry”

NEW: Hateful conspiracy ain’t just being cooked up in sinister corners of the Internet; it’s also being served up by major media companies at airport bookstores, movie theaters and on cable, because incitement sells. Midweek Mediator https://t.co/Of6d5EP8l5

— jimrutenberg (@jimrutenberg) November 1, 2018

Five things to know about “false flag” theories

Five things to know about ‘false flag’ conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theories run amok

Now that they have caught the bomb suspect, the far right is trying to blame the left. They say the bomb threat is fake or blame the left. The suspect’s van and had pro-Trump and anti-liberal stickers all over. Sad!

I tweeted:

Waiting for right wing conspiracy theorists to say liberals put the right wing stickers on the alleged bomb maker’s van

— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 26, 2018

Of course, it happened.

Remember, we're not talking about a marginal figure here, we're talking about someone who has been central to the conservative movement for decades. This is who they are. There are no voices of sanity, and there is no bottom. https://t.co/u3yOi8RlL9

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 26, 2018

Here’s some of the crazy stuff from right wing conspiracy theorists.

Good overview:

Putting it all in one place https://t.co/7MTSUCbFXn

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 26, 2018

Amy Tarkanian, former chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party and a surrogate for her husband Danny’s 2018 congressional race, shared messages on Wednesday suggesting that the “fake”… https://t.co/exQypEHR5w

— Baltimore Fiber (@BmoreFiber) October 26, 2018

Native American Journalists Association @najournalists (I am a board member) provides guidelines to media on how to report Florida man's claims of Native identity #MAGABomber #Indigenous https://t.co/tRQ3VoD7jC pic.twitter.com/IjSfL9ReXz

— Jacqueline Keeler (@jfkeeler) October 26, 2018

People are tagging George Soros in LOTS of conspiracy theory posts on Instagram pic.twitter.com/tGvDnXtd1X

— Blake Montgomery 💀 (@blakersdozen) October 25, 2018

This Gateway Pundit article saying the bombs could not have exploded bc CLOCKS has 4,800 engagements on Facebook and 4,600 on Twitter. We've heard from multiple authorities (NY Gov, FBI) that the bombs could have exploded. pic.twitter.com/wnwpuj7knX

— Blake Montgomery 💀 (@blakersdozen) October 26, 2018

Sayoc registered as a Republican in Miami-Dade County in 2016, according to voting records. Laura Loomer has a history of spreading conspiracy theories. pic.twitter.com/uIciZ0HjNe

— Blake Montgomery 💀 (@blakersdozen) October 26, 2018

https://t.co/RUbzQC4rZg pic.twitter.com/LOot8XWKKf

— Share the Facts (@sharethefact) October 26, 2018

So the right-wing line on the pipe bombs has consolidated:

1. It's fake news, it never happened
2. Furthermore, it was a false flag operation by liberals
3. Anyway, the targets deserve whatever happens to them
4. Donald Trump is the real victim 1/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 26, 2018

Wow. The president of the United States clearly thinks the largest coordinated assassination attempt in American history is a hoax. https://t.co/3QsqYMkb9c

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) October 26, 2018

New York Times on the false flag theory

D’Souza was pardoned by Trump

It used to be that crazy conspiratorial tweets like this were relegated to the fringes of the conservative movement. Now, they are openly shared by the movement's most prominent personalities. https://t.co/gRVlS9plsG

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) October 25, 2018

Washington Post on why false narratives don’t go away

The bombs were real, FBI says after President Trump used quote marks around the word "bombs" as if to fan the baseless false-flag conspiracy theory https://t.co/9g6sGZddJu

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) October 26, 2018

Note to right wing talkers:
No it wasn’t a left-winger, bent on making the @GOP look bad. It was exactly what it appeared to be: a right-wing maniac, taking it upon himself to act on the president’s enemies list.

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) October 26, 2018

Do not memory-hole the overuse of this term. pic.twitter.com/GxVdvn33df

— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) October 26, 2018

Mentally unhinged people are looking for a conspiracy theorist, a fascist, a bully who sanctions violence – and unfortunately Trump supplies back up https://t.co/5MfAs7QwVx

— Jayne Anne Phillips (@jayneanneonly) October 26, 2018

Trump supporter think it’s a liberal hoax

After ‘false flag’ narrative takes hold, some conservatives scramble to drown out far right

Republican congressman suggests Soros is funding the caravan of Honduran children

10/20/18

Fact check

Now look what they blame Soros for:

I’ve been getting mail along the same lines. This — the Jews want the colored people to take over — is apparently a meme on the right https://t.co/vQgnb7vHtb

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 20, 2018

In his latest piece for @HuffPost, @neiljyoung17 writes about how the right’s #GeorgeSoros conspiracy theories are an attack on American democracy https://t.co/ZQtzo1Nm9M

— Past Present (@pastpresentpod) October 20, 2018

Republicans blame Soros for everything and ignore the millions spent by their own billionaires who they rewarded with the tax cut.

I think Gaetz saw that Steve King was building a wide lead to win the Most Embarrassing Congressman Award, and is trying to get back in contention. https://t.co/asTyPFQGtd

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 18, 2018

They put Soros in a campaign ad too:

Malevolent Jewish financier is puppetmaster of nonwhite social unrest. The @NRCC approved this message!https://t.co/tg0FGfbhzD

— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) October 18, 2018

If George Soros were really the evil genius puppet master of the anti-semitic conservative imagination, he wouldn’t be paying protestors, he’d be financing liberals to resettle in light red rural congressional districts.

— Peter A. Shulman 📚 (@pashulman) October 18, 2018

Chuck Grassley. Horrible senator, horrible human being. Promoting vile bile after blowing up Senate norms. https://t.co/NELVts6XUp

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 29, 2018

OK, to use the idiot equivalence du jour — are there any Democratic senators arguing that the guy who shot up the congressional baseball practice was paid by the Koch Brothers to make Bernie Sanders look bad?

I didn't think so. https://t.co/XS1MbOS77g

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 29, 2018

A conspiracy theory about George Soros and a migrant caravan inspired horror https://t.co/3VB7o8sfbe

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 29, 2018

update 11/17/18

NRATV is still pushing the conspiracy theory that George Soros is behind the migrant caravan https://t.co/A7vkmSo9cw

— Cydney Hargis (@CydEHargis) November 16, 2018