Browse Conspiracy Theories

TikTok, owned by ByteDance (a Chinese-headquartered company), has been the subject of US government concern since at least 2019. CFIUS and congressional investigations have documented real data-collection concerns. Studies have found algorithmic differences in how sensitive political topics (Xinjiang, Tibet, Tiananmen Square) are surfaced on TikTok compared to competitor platforms. Whether these differences represent coordinated CCP propaganda operations or organic content-policy choices remains contested. The ban-and-reversal cycle through 2024-2025 reflects genuine unresolved institutional uncertainty.

James Earl Ray was convicted in 1969 of murdering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on April 4, 1968. Ray later recanted his guilty plea. In 1999 a Memphis civil jury in King v. Jowers found, by a preponderance of evidence, that a conspiracy involving Loyd Jowers and unnamed government agencies contributed to King's death. The King family supported that verdict. The FBI's COINTELPRO program had surveilled and harassed King extensively. The criminal conviction of Ray stands; the conspiracy question remains genuinely open.

Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of murdering Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. Sirhan has never denied firing his weapon. Acoustic and forensic evidence, along with multiple witness accounts, has raised the question of whether a second gunman fired the fatal shot from a different direction. RFK Jr. has publicly supported re-examination of the case. A 2022 California parole board recommendation for parole was reversed by Governor Newsom.

Claims that conflict footage is AI-generated, staged, or misattributed, sometimes used to deny casualties or assign false blame.

Claims that the USS Liberty attack involved intentional targeting and later cover-up beyond official findings.

Tracker for claims about official UAP historical reports and what they do or do not establish.

Claims around the July 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt, including staged-event, inside-job, or security-standdown narratives.

A placeholder for false or unsupported claims around an alleged Charlie Kirk assassination narrative if such claims circulate.

The September 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 underwater natural gas pipelines between Russia and Germany in the Baltic Sea. Attribution has varied: Russia, Ukraine, or US/NATO operation.

A cluster of unexplained neurological symptoms reported by US diplomats and intelligence personnel beginning at the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba in 2016, and subsequently at US facilities in China, Russia, Vietnam, Austria, and elsewhere.

US Air Force veteran and former NGA intelligence officer David Grusch's 2023 whistleblower testimony to Congress alleging a decades-long, classified US crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering program involving "non-human" craft and biologics.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (Boeing 777) vanished on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Primary-radar, satellite ping, and debris analysis place the crash in the southern Indian Ocean, but the main wreckage has never been located.

The hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a research-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) rather than from a natural zoonotic spillover at the Huanan seafood market.

The theory that President John F. Kennedy was not killed by a lone gunman but was the victim of a coordinated conspiracy involving elements of the CIA, Mafia, military-industrial complex, or other powerful groups.