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The Daily Dot

Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.

Mikael Thalen

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The biggest B.S. artists online are turning against Musk’s master fact-checking plan—and X might be aiding them

Conspiracy theorists think Microsoft will remotely disable their computer for sharing alternative news

Remote Disable Microsoft

Conspiracy theorists think Microsoft will remotely disable their computers to stop misinformation

Katherine Huggins is a New York-based journalist and freelance contributor to the Daily Dot&#8217;s tech and politics section.

Katherine Huggins

Conspiracists use video of Ice Spice at the Super Bowl to suggest she is a demon

IceSpice Gestures

Far-right thinks Ice Spice is a ‘demon,’ blasts Taylor Swift for ‘pounding beers with Satanist’ during Super Bowl

Biden Meme

Biden trolls Swift-Kelce ‘psyop’ believers after Chiefs Super Bowl win—as Trump pleads with duo to endorse him instead

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Spate of high-profile cancer diagnoses, deaths prompts conspiratorial fear-mongering over vaccine-induced ‘turbo cancer’

Taylor Swift Trump

A fake Taylor Swift post about Trump is duping people

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‘This is what they’ll do if you step out of line’: Trump fans claim Killer Mike arrested for refusing to endorse Biden

Video of Miley Cyrus' bodyguard at Grammys prompts conspiracy

Grammys Bodyguard conspiracy

Fake arm or an umbrella gun? Video of Miley Cyrus’ bodyguard on Grammys red carpet prompts speculation

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‘Perfect Democrat Patsy’: A gruesome YouTube murder by a Biden hater is being dubbed a false flag to push a crackdown on militias

Aneela Mirchandani is a San Francisco-based independent journalist. Follow her on X at @TheOddPost.

Aneela Mirchandani

Trump and maras

A QAnon podcaster raised $50,000 to file an amicus brief in Trump’s Supreme Court case—she plans to spend it on slime facials and slippers

Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

Marlon Ettinger

Sailing Twitter is baffled by claim that it’s “scientifically impossible” to “travel across oceans”

Denied X

Baffling new viral claim posits it is ‘scientifically impossible’ to travel across the Atlantic Ocean

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Vivek Ramaswamy says NFL will fix Super Bowl so Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce can campaign for Biden as ‘world champions’

Braden Bjella is a culture writer. His work can be found in Mixmag, Electronic Beats, Schon! magazine, and more.

Braden Bjella

People think they found proof the Super Bowl is scripted after woman spots Super Bowl cookie cakes with 2 teams already on it at grocery store

Super Bowl Leaks

‘Does nobody else think that’s weird?’: People think they found proof the Super Bowl is scripted after woman spots Super Bowl cookie cakes with 2 teams already on them at grocery store

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Jewish tunnel drama inspires QAnon believers to descend on New York City in search of underground trafficking centers

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Why conspiracy theorists are freaking out about ‘Disease X’

Conspiracy Theories