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Louis Tomlinson hopped on Twitter to call out hurtful conspiracies about his loved ones—including his relationship with Love Island star Zara McDermott.
The problem with a conspiracy theory is, of course, the more you talk about it, the more interest people take in it. The whole thing is born of distrust — so who wants to listen to someone telling them there’s nothing to see, even if that someone is Trump himself?
And despite all these honest questions — about county, state, and federal disaster preparedness, about the increasingly disastrous impacts of climate change — Trump’s allies are coming up with their own conspiracy theories to explain the tragedy.
Singer Louis Tomlinson has called out “conspiracy” theories about his personal life, saying he finds the rumours “hurtful”.
The tweets, which Sesame Workshop said were posted by a hacker, focused on the files allegedly maintained by Jeffrey Epstein.
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FBI director Kash Patel was adamant that “the conspiracy theories just aren’t true” amid a brewing MAGA firestorm over notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
"No, government’s not controlling the weather," U.S. Sen. James Lankford said after the EPA published a website that debunks conspiracy theories about airplane contrails.
It’s not clear what inspired the EPA to release this website, though the administration has dealt with conspiracy theories on multiple fronts.
Still, claims of weather-control technology, once confined to relatively fringe circles, have gained some traction in the Republican Party. In some states, conservative politicians have passed laws that allude to fringe ideas and seek to ban geoengineering, which is used to counteract the effects of climate change.