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Conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones explained to his audience today how the government could have been behind the devastating May 20 tornado in Oklahoma. On the May 21 edition of  The Alex Jones Show , a caller asked Jones whether he was planning to cover how government technology may be behind a recent spate of sinkholes

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Fox News has been hyping the statements of an anonymous source who has contradicted the account of both the Obama administration and independent findings about the attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Now two separate statements by experts in Foreign Policy are casting more doubt about the claims of Fox’s source

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The right wing media’s promotion of a widely-debunked Alex Jones conspiracy theory about the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ammunition acquisitions prompted House Republicans to hold a hearing to investigate. The theory, which assigns some sinister motivation behind the recent ammo purchases, first gained traction on the websites of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones before finding its way to Fox News and Fox Business and finally to the halls of Congress.  On April 25, Republican Reps. Jim Jordan (OH) and Jason Chaffetz (UT)  held a joint hearing  ”to examine the procurement of ammunition by the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General.” The hearing followed right wing  media reports  speculating about the reasons for the acquisitions.

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Since last year’s attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, Fox News has pushed several conspiracy theories in an attempt to damage President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. At the same time many of those conspiracies found a new outlet in the form of a House GOP report, Fox issued poll findings critical of the Obama administration

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Fox News hosted a series of discredited anti-Islam activists to smear Muslims during Fox’s coverage of the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon. Frank Gaffney  Frank Gaffney On Fox News: FBI Cooperation With Muslim Communities Weakens National Security. In an April 20 appearance on Fox & Friends Saturday , the Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney claimed that the FBI was not being “allowed to look for jihad” and criticized its cooperation with the American Muslim community when looking for terrorism threats: GAFFNEY: The FBI, we’re hearing a lot about how they investigated, or at least talked to one of these brothers.

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Why do a determined minority — often in positions of power — refuse to accept that climate change is happening despite the overwhelming scientific evidence? A new study may provide a clue. Researchers at the University of Western Australia found that people who expressed faith in free-market ideology were also likely to reject scientific consensus that climate change is happening and that burning fossil fuels helps to cause it.

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Hours after it was debunked, Glenn Beck continued to beat the drum of a conspiracy theory that the Obama administration is deporting a Saudi national who was behind the tragic bombings at the Boston marathon.

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Following the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon, radio host Alex Jones was  quick  to suggest the attacks may have been a “false flag” operation staged by the U.S. government.

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In the immediate wake of deadly explosions at the Boston marathon, Alex Jones and his website InfoWars.com have breathlessly preached conspiracy theories about the as-yet-unknown perpetrators of the attack, claiming the blast was set off or staged by the U.S. government in what Jones called a “false flag operation.” The theorizing culminated in an InfoWars correspondent asking a visibly angry Massachusetts Gov

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Fox News contributor and Townhall news editor Katie Pavlich made the unfounded claim that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano lied about her knowledge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms’ Operation Fast and Furious, a failed gun trafficking sting.

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