Fake picture of explosion at Pentagon spooks Twitter
A fake image purporting to show an explosion near the Pentagon briefly went viral on Twitter on Monday, leaving fact-checkers to scramble to counter the...
Author : Ben Collins
Online threats of violence but few signs of far-right organizing around Trump indictment
Minutes after news broke of former President Donald Trump’s indictment, a comment on the pro-Trump internet forum Patriots.win, also known as TheDonald, skyrocketed to the...
Man who fired nail gun at FBI building called for violence in days after Mar-a-Lago search
A man identified by two law enforcement sources as Ricky Shiffer, who died in a confrontation with police after he fired a nail gun at...
Chicago shooting person of interest left online trail of violent imagery
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III, the person of interest identified by police after Monday’s shooting in a Chicago suburb that killed...
Twitter says mass deactivations after Musk news were ‘organic’
Twitter has been flooded with user reports of high-profile accounts losing thousands of followers after news broke that Tesla CEO Elon Musk would purchase the...
As U.S. ‘trucker convoy’ picks up momentum, foreign meddling adds to fray
There is growing momentum in the U.S. anti-vaccination community to conduct rallies similar to Canada's “Freedom Convoy” that has paralyzed Ottawa, Ontario, and the effort...
Before the Riot: Jan. 6 committee looking back how extremists came together
Investigators for the House Jan. 6 committee are scrutinizing rallies and events as far back as a year before the Capitol riot in an effort...
Far-right forums thrive after Capitol attack, but stumble over Trump and riot’s legacy
One year after members of far-right groups rioted at the U.S. Capitol, the online extremist forums that telegraphed the brutality of Jan. 6 are still...