Browse Conspiracy Theories

A persistent cluster of claims links Bill Gates to depopulation or eugenics agendas, most commonly by citing his 2010 TED talk in which he discussed the relationship between healthcare, reproductive services, carbon emissions, and global population growth. In its most common form, the claim misrepresents Gates's actual argument: that improving healthcare and education in developing countries historically correlates with declining birth rates (demographic transition theory). The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's published focus areas — vaccines, maternal health, agricultural productivity — are oriented toward reducing child mortality and improving living conditions, not population reduction. More extreme variants allege Gates Foundation vaccines are covertly designed as depopulation tools; this framing carries antisemitic-adjacent structural patterns that the ADL has documented. All variants have been repeatedly fact-checked as false or unsupported by Reuters, AP, and Politifact.

On 7 October 2023 Hamas launched a large-scale attack from Gaza into southern Israel, killing approximately 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostage. Hamas publicly claimed responsibility. Three distinct conspiracy sub-claims have circulated: (1) Israel had advance warning and deliberately allowed the attack; (2) Israeli casualty figures were fabricated or exaggerated; (3) Israel staged or orchestrated the attack. The first reflects documented intelligence failures with an unverified "deliberate stand-down" extrapolation. The second is contradicted by forensic documentation from multiple international teams. The third is directly contradicted by Hamas's own public claims of responsibility and captured combatant evidence.

A claim, amplified heavily by QAnon from 2017 onward, that global elites harvest a compound called adrenochrome from the blood of frightened children and consume it as a psychoactive drug or life-extension substance. Adrenochrome is a real, commercially available compound (oxidised adrenaline) with no credible evidence of psychoactive properties or significant physiological effect at any plausible dose. The claim recycles antisemitic blood-libel tropes with a modern pseudo-scientific veneer.

Claims that school vaccine policies are illegal experiments, depopulation tools, or proof of hidden medical control.

Claims that the April 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting was staged or allowed to happen for political advantage.

Claims that contraception, vaccines, or reproductive medicine are covert fertility-control programs.

Claims that COVID vaccination causes sudden aggressive cancers at population scale.

Claims that vaccinated people shed harmful spike proteins or mRNA in ways that sicken nearby unvaccinated people.

Claims that the Maui/Lahaina wildfires were deliberately caused or exploited as a coordinated land-grab operation.

Claims that ballots are routinely destroyed, dumped, or manufactured to alter election outcomes.

Claims that hidden parasites cause broad illness and can be cured by detox or cleanse protocols.

Claims that large-scale noncitizen voting changes U.S. election outcomes.

Networks promoting chlorine dioxide or MMS as a detox, autism treatment, infection cure, or cancer cure.

Claims that 5G networks cause COVID-19, immune collapse, or hidden illness patterns.

Claims that raw milk cures disease or is being suppressed because it outperforms medicine.

Claims that WHO pandemic agreements or International Health Regulations let the WHO directly override national sovereignty, impose lockdowns, or control citizens.

Claims that real disaster survivors, victims, or witnesses are AI-generated fabrications, often based on compression artifacts or synthetic-media panic.

Claims popularized by the film Died Suddenly that vaccines caused mass unexplained deaths and fibrous clots.

Claims that governments steer or intensify hurricanes using HAARP, cloud seeding, or secret atmospheric technology.

Claims that secret medical beds can cure severe disease but are hidden by elites or awaiting disclosure.

Claims that Bill and Hillary Clinton arranged suspicious deaths of political associates and witnesses.

Claims that FBI agents or informants orchestrated the January 6 attack rather than participants who planned and executed it.

Claims that real crisis footage, victims, or witnesses are AI-generated fabrications.