Sentences with phrase «false conspiracy theories»

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced Tuesday that the Google - owned video website will link information from Wikipedia to content in hopes that it will combat the flood of videos promoting false conspiracy theories that have plagued its service.

Far - right media outfits, like Alex Jones» InfoWars, used the platform to promote the blatantly false conspiracy theory that David Hogg, one of the student survivors of the shooting who has emerged as a vocal advocate for enacting stricter gun laws, was a «crisis actor» working to sensationalize the news in an effort to strip away gun rights.

He has become the subject of smear campaigns and demonstrably false conspiracy theories that say either he has been «coached» by his father, a former FBI agent; or he is a «pawn» for anti-gun campaigners; or he is not a victim but a «crisis actor,» paid to travel to disaster sites to argue against stricter gun laws.

Infowars and Alex Jones, who hosts «The Alex Jones Show,» are famous for peddling false conspiracy theories about tragic events.

A woman accused of sending death threats to the father of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting told investigators she was motivated by anger after browsing websites that promote false conspiracy theories, prosecutors said.

Last year, Jones boosted a false conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton and her former campaign chair, John Podesta, ran a child prostitution ring in the basement of a Washington D.C. pizzeria, even though it doesn't have a basement.

Peddaling some false conspiracy theories.

At the same time, false conspiracy theories have been floated by websites and social media that some of the students are «crisis actors» paid to protest.

Although some of the students have been subjected to false conspiracy theories that they are crisis actors, many others have praised the eloquence and courage of Calderon and the other high school students.

And that is a clear reference to a viral, false conspiracy theory that Hogg is actually a paid «crisis actor.»

Some of the false conspiracy theories surround a student, David Hogg, whose father is a retired FBI agent and who filmed a viral video while in California on vacation.

Don't you think it would have been smart to have a convo with your stepson @DonaldJTrumpJr before he liked a post about a false conspiracy theory which... put a target on my back?»