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Theories updated or fact-checked in the last 30 days — reflecting new evidence, revised verdicts, and editorial improvements.
- Government & PoliticsDebunked
Saddam Hussein - Al-Qaeda Link (Iraq War Pretext)
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account around the primary records (9/11 Commission, Senate Intelligence Committee, Pentagon Inspector General). Corrected the date and scope of the Pentagon report (9 February 2007, a policy office rather than the Office of Special Plans) and the date and wording of Bush's August 2006 remarks, and added Cheney's death on 3 November 2025.
Nov 9, 2026fact-checked - History & Ancient CivilizationsUnsubstantiated
Ark of the Covenant Location
Latest update: November 2026: Corrected the dating of the Ethiopian tradition, the Lemba and Ron Wyatt details and the account of Edward Ullendorff's visit to Axum, removed unsupported claims about the Vatican, and expanded the account with the 1988 CIA remote-viewing training file and 2026 coverage of the Legends of the Lost Ark docudrama and the Shiloh excavation.
Nov 9, 2026fact-checked - Space & ExtraterrestrialUnsubstantiated
Area 51 and Extraterrestrial Technology
Latest update: November 2026: Added a sourced account of the CIA's 2013 U-2 and OXCART release, the 1990s Area 51 workers' lawsuits and 2026 developments (Obama's remarks, the Pentagon's UAP file releases, Grusch's June press conference). Corrected unsupported aircraft claims, the 2019 Storm Area 51 turnout, Bob Lazar's first-interview date and an unverified quotation.
Nov 9, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsDebunked
Reptilian Elites (David Icke)
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account from primary and authoritative sources: corrected the publication date of The Biggest Secret (1999), removed an unsupported link to the 2022 Pelosi attack, and added the history of the idea, Icke's use of the antisemitic Protocols forgery, the Dutch entry bar and its referral to the EU Court of Justice, platform removals and the FBI's Nashville findings.
Nov 9, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsConfirmed
Manuel Noriega and the CIA
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account from court records, the Senate Kerry subcommittee report and news archives. Corrected the payment figure: before trial the government offered to stipulate to about $320,000 from the US Army and the CIA combined, which Noriega rejected. Also removed an unsupported 1967 start date, named the eight counts of conviction (none for money laundering) and added the French and Panamanian cases.
Nov 9, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsDebunked
Vince Foster Death
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded the account of the death and the official inquiries and corrected several details, including the date the torn note was found (July 26, 1993), the origin of the revolver and the length of the Starr report; added the Supreme Court's 2004 Favish ruling and the December 2025 death of independent counsel Robert Fiske.
Nov 9, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsPartially True
Agent Orange and VA Suppression
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account with dated court and National Academies findings, corrected the spraying figures, the 1984 settlement terms, the Nehmer ruling (May 3, 1989, Northern District of California) and the grounds on which Vietnamese plaintiffs' suits were dismissed, added the August 1990 House committee report on the White House and CDC handling of the Agent Orange study, and added the July 2026 referral of Tran To Nga's case to France's plenary court. The verdict changed from confirmed to partially true: the VA's delay in recognizing herbicide-linked conditions is documented, a deliberate cost-avoidance motive is not.
Nov 9, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsDebunked
Princess Diana's Death
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded the account of the Paris crash with dated findings from the French inquiry, Operation Paget and the 2008 inquest; corrected details about the white Fiat Uno, the survivor's testimony, the driver's blood-alcohol range and Mohamed Al-Fayed's death date; recorded how the Metropolitan Police's 2013 assessment of a claimed military role ended; and added 2008 and 2013 poll figures.
Nov 9, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsDebunked
JFK Jr. Plane Crash
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded the account of the crash with the NTSB's findings on the flight, wreckage and recovery; corrected the NTSB report reference and removed an unsupported identification detail; added the 2026 FX series and some viewers' online speculation that followed it.
Nov 9, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsPartially True
Jeffrey Dahmer Investigation Failures
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account from court opinions and contemporary reports. Corrected the officers' discharge and reinstatement (a 1994 Circuit Court ruling, not union arbitration), the September 6, 1991 firing date, the officers' names, and the date the Common Council approved the settlement, and removed claims the record does not support.
Nov 9, 2026fact-checked - Finance & EconomicsDebunked
The Federal Reserve Conspiracy
Latest update: November 2026: Rewrote the article around the documented record, corrected the Fed's remittance figures and the $16 trillion claim, added the 2025-26 fights over Governor Cook, Chair Powell and the Supreme Court rulings, and rated the claim of secret ownership by banking families as debunked.
Nov 9, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsDebunked
The Illuminati and New World Order
Latest update: November 2026: Rewrote the account of the real 1776-1787 Order of the Illuminati using the University of Erfurt's April 2026 research and the Bavarian edicts, traced the 1790s origin of the conspiracy legend and set out, with attribution, the antisemitic strand of the "New World Order" claim, and corrected the history of the Eye of Providence on the Great Seal.
Nov 9, 2026fact-checked - Finance & EconomicsConfirmed
Wirecard Fraud
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account from primary records. Corrected the Munich trial status (Markus Braun is still on trial with no verdict, closing speeches not yet scheduled as of 28 October 2026), and added the 2025 Old Bailey sentences and 2026 Austrian rulings tied to Jan Marsalek, the 2026 Federal Court of Justice ruling on investors' claims against EY, and the ESMA, Bundestag and audit-regulator findings. Removed unsupported claims and an unverifiable quotation.
Nov 7, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsConfirmed
Jamal Khashoggi Assassination
Latest update: November 2026: Corrected the account of the Saudi trials, the UN Special Rapporteur's findings, the 2022 US immunity ruling and the date MBS became prime minister, restated the US intelligence assessment in its own words, and added the May 2026 French judicial inquiry.
Nov 7, 2026fact-checked - Health & MedicineConfirmed
Thalidomide Cover-Up
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account around primary records, corrected the Distillers settlement (the 20 million pound trust was agreed in 1973, not 1968), the Kelsey award name and several dates and figures, stated how the Aachen case and the 1970 settlement actually ended, added Der Spiegel's 1961 report that Grünenthal resisted a sales ban, and added 2025-26 developments, including Ireland's 2024 statement of regret and its still-pending formal State apology (not given as of 23 October 2026) and the US survivors' bill.
Nov 7, 2026fact-checked - Technology & SurveillanceUnder Investigation
MH370 Disappearance
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account with dated records, corrected the debris, flight-simulator and search-area figures, removed unverified quotations and claims, and updated the Ocean Infinity search, which Malaysia extended to 30 June 2027 for a November 2026 to April 2027 window; no find has been announced.
Nov 7, 2026fact-checked - Space & ExtraterrestrialUnsubstantiated
UAP & the Grusch Whistleblower Claims
Latest update: November 2026: Rewrote the account of David Grusch's allegations from the sworn hearing record, AARO's March 2024 findings and the UAP legislation, and added 2026 developments (the Pentagon's PURSUE file releases, Grusch's June 2026 Capitol Hill remarks and the House's July 2026 records amendment). Corrected the AATIP funding and dates, the FY2024 NDAA provisions and what the Inspector General's "credible and urgent" finding means. The retrieval-and-concealment claim is now rated unsubstantiated: it rests on secondhand testimony, and AARO's 2024 report called it inaccurate.
Nov 7, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsPartially True
Gulf War Illness and VA Suppression
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded the account with primary records on Khamisiyah, the 2008 and 2016 expert reviews and VA's 2011 determination; corrected the estimate of affected veterans (175,000-210,000), the Khamisiyah dates and what the 2022 PACT Act changed; added the October 2025 diagnostic code and 2026 reports on VA's advisory committee.
Nov 7, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsConfirmed
Lockerbie / Pan Am 103
Latest update: November 2026: Updated for the US trial of Abu Agila Mas'ud (postponed in August 2026, jury selection now set for 19 January 2027, and a copy of his alleged confession ruled admissible in October), the reported rulings denying his motions to suppress the alleged confession (BBC, 7 August) and to dismiss over alleged rendition (BBC, 22 October), the reported death of Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, and corrected details of Libya's 2003 acceptance of responsibility, the appeals and the timeline.
Nov 7, 2026fact-checked - Technology & SurveillanceUnder Investigation
Havana Syndrome
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account around the primary record, adding 2026 developments (anonymous-source reports of a Pentagon-tested device and of a Norway researcher's self-test, the March 2026 House hearing, the June rescission of the 2023 and January 2025 assessments, the July 2026 renaming of the Pentagon team). Corrected the description of the January 2022 CIA findings.
Nov 7, 2026fact-checked - Finance & EconomicsPartially True
BP Deepwater Horizon Cover-Up Claims
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded the account with court and agency records and corrected the record on BP's flow-rate statements (BP pleaded guilty to obstructing Congress; the executive the Justice Department identified in announcing the plea was cleared at trial), the plea and settlement figures and the spill totals; added the May 2026 Fifth Circuit ruling in a cleanup worker's claim and June 2026 restoration funding.
Nov 7, 2026fact-checked - Finance & EconomicsUnsubstantiated
Panama Papers Intelligence-Operation Claims
Latest update: November 2026: Rewritten to judge the claim that the 2016 leak was a targeted intelligence operation, which remains unsubstantiated (the leak itself is authentic). Corrected the acquittal account (co-founder Ramón Fonseca died before the 2024 verdict), the recovery figure and Nawaz Sharif's disqualification ground, and added the Kremlin's retraction of the Goldman Sachs claim, the 2026 Panamanian appeal ruling, a German conviction, the Swedbank fine and the FinCEN rollback.
Nov 7, 2026fact-checked - Science & EnvironmentConfirmed
Flint Water Crisis
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account from primary records. Corrected the emergency-declaration and settlement details, the Snyder quotation and the film credits, and added the 2026 settlement payments, the federal court fight over the EPA's role and the Attorney General's August 2026 report on the failed prosecutions.
Nov 7, 2026fact-checked - Technology & SurveillanceConfirmed
Stuxnet (US/Israeli Iran Nuclear Sabotage)
Latest update: November 2026: Corrected the sourcing and details of the Stuxnet account (the 2012 New York Times reporting relied on anonymous officials, and Symantec's analysis did not itself name Natanz) and added the 2016 Cartwright leak case, the 2024 Dutch report and the 2026 fast16 findings.
Nov 7, 2026fact-checked - Health & MedicineConfirmed
The Opioid Epidemic
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account around the court record: corrected the Purdue and Sackler settlement history (the 2007 and 2020 pleas, the Supreme Court's June 2024 ruling, the revised $7.4 billion plan confirmed in November 2025 and effective on May 1, 2026, and the April 2026 sentence), corrected the distributor settlement figures, and added McKinsey and the Insys appeal.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Health & MedicineDebunked
Ivermectin as COVID-19 Cure
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account around the large randomized trials and corrected how they were published (ACTIV-6 appeared in JAMA and PRINCIPLE in the Journal of Infection, with corrected participant counts); one of the largest early positive studies is now described as a withdrawn preprint; and 2025-2026 state laws easing access are reported separately from the evidence.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsConfirmed
MH17 Attribution
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account from the primary records, adding the 2025 ICAO Council and European Court of Human Rights rulings and Russia's pending ICJ appeal, and corrected earlier statements about the 2022 verdict, the 2019 charges and extradition.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Health & MedicineDebunked
CIA AIDS Origin Theory
Latest update: November 2026: Corrected the Operation Denver/INFEKTION naming and the campaign's dates, removed an unsupported claim that Gorbachev ordered the campaign shut down in 1987, and added the documentary record, the scientific dating of HIV-1 and survey data on the claim's reach and its links to condom use and HIV-treatment adherence.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Technology & SurveillanceConfirmed
Boeing 737 MAX Cover-Up
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded the account with court, congressional and investigator records. Corrected the DPA payment breakdown, the 'clowns' message wording, and the Forkner 'jedi mind tricks' message (it concerned a foreign airline, not the FAA); added the 2025 dismissal of the criminal case, the Fifth Circuit's 2026 rulings that left it in place, and the 2025 and 2026 Chicago civil jury awards; added what the Indonesian and Ethiopian crash reports say about the missing MCAS guidance; and kept the separate 2024 Alaska 1282 door-plug accident distinct from the MCAS crashes.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsUnsubstantiated
Jeffrey Epstein: Death and Client List
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded and corrected the account using the 2023 Inspector General report, the 2025 Justice Department memo, and the 2026 document releases, court rulings and press investigations. Corrections include that Epstein was never convicted federally, that footage survives from one jail camera while recording failed on others, and that the Eleventh Circuit rejected the Florida victim's suit over the 2007 agreement.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Health & MedicinePartially True
Water Fluoridation Controversy
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account of how fluoridation began, what the 2024 NTP review, the 2024 Cochrane update and later studies show at high exposures versus the recommended 0.7 mg/L, the federal court case and its May 2026 reversal on procedural grounds, and the 2025-2026 state and federal policy moves, kept separate from the evidence; corrected the Cochrane figures, the authorship of The Fluoride Wars and several dates.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsUnder Investigation
Nord Stream Pipeline Attribution
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded the account with dated detail on the Swedish and Danish closures (7 and 26 February 2024), the Italian, Polish and Croatian extradition proceedings and the Hamburg trial that opened on 14 October 2026, and corrected how the March 2023 New York Times report and the physical evidence were described. No court has yet ruled on who ordered the attack.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - History & Ancient CivilizationsDebunked
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account of the forgery around the 1921 Times exposure of its borrowing from Joly's 1864 satire, the 1935 Bern trial and its 1937 appeal, the 1964 US Senate subcommittee report and the 1993 Moscow ruling, and corrected the descriptions of the plagiarism, the Ford apology and the authorship, which accounts attribute to different people.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsConfirmed
Uvalde Police Response Cover-Up
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account from the Texas House committee report and the DOJ Critical Incident Review, corrected the officer count and several dates, and added the January 2026 acquittal of former officer Adrian Gonzales, the pending trial of former chief Pete Arredondo, the 2025 records releases and the March 2026 ruling on withheld state police records.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsDebunked
Boston Marathon Bombing False-Flag Claims
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded the account using court opinions and a federal inspectors-general review of pre-bombing information sharing. Corrected the verdict and sentencing dates, added the 2020 reversal of three convictions, the 2024 juror-bias remand and the 2025 recusal rulings, and corrected claims about survivors and the prison where Tsarnaev is held.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsDebunked
Las Vegas Route 91 Shooting Conspiracy Claims
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account from the LVMPD's 2018 criminal investigative report and the FBI's 2019 behavioral review, corrected the MGM settlement (MGM paid $49 million of the $800 million total, approved September 30, 2020), fixed several dates and counts, and added the 2020 death-toll update and the 2024 Supreme Court bump-stock ruling.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Technology & SurveillanceConfirmed
Volkswagen Dieselgate
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account from primary records (EPA, the US plea and sentencing record, the German Federal Court of Justice and the May 2025 Braunschweig verdict); corrected the cost figure, who commissioned the West Virginia University study (the ICCT, not EPA), and Winterkorn's status (German trial suspended since July 2025, no conviction).
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsDebunked
Sandy Hook False Flag Claims
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded the account with the Connecticut State's Attorney's report and the Connecticut and Texas court records, corrected the damages figures and dates, and added the latest appeals and Infowars receivership developments, including the August 2026 Texas ruling that cut punitive damages.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsDebunked
Pizzagate
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account around the police, court and newsroom records: corrected the details of the 2019 arson prosecution, the details of the 2017 plea and sentence, and the date and context of the gunman's remark that his "intel" was not 100 percent; replaced unverified quotations; added the 2025 report of the gunman's death, and noted the March 2026 revival of the claim around the Epstein files.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Health & MedicineDebunked
MMR Vaccine-Autism Link
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded the account of the Wakefield paper, its retraction and the large studies that found no MMR-autism link, corrected study details, and added the CDC's November 2025 and July 2026 rewrites of its autism page and 2026 measles figures, kept separate from the evidence.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - History & Ancient CivilizationsDebunked
The Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Engineering Mystery
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account of how the Giza pyramids were built, correcting the dates and nature of the workers' town, cemetery and Hatnub ramp finds, adding the Merer logbook, the Ahramat Nile branch, ScanPyramids findings and what they do and do not show, and the August 2026 retraction of the same team's 2022 radar paper on the Great Pyramid, which the 2025 'underground city' claim builds on.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Technology & SurveillanceConfirmed
Mass Digital Surveillance and Smart Devices
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account around the court and oversight record on bulk collection (the Verizon order, the Second and Ninth Circuit rulings, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board reports, the USA FREEDOM Act and the European Court of Human Rights ruling on UK bulk interception), corrected the dates and findings for ACLU v. Clapper, the end of bulk phone-records collection and Section 702, and added that Section 702 lapsed on June 12, 2026 while court-approved collection can continue until about March 2027.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsDebunked
QAnon
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded and corrected the QAnon account with dated, sourced detail on Q's origin, the failed predictions, the 2022 stylometry studies (whose candidate authors deny them), the 2019 FBI Phoenix bulletin, platform removals and the Capitol-attack prosecutions; corrected the authorship, Twitter and FBI details.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsConfirmed
Operation Gladio
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account around the Italian parliamentary commission's 1992 Gladio report, the Belgian and Swiss inquiries and the court findings on Peteano, Piazza Fontana, Brescia and Bologna; corrected the dates and setting of Andreotti's 1990 disclosures, removed the unsupported claim that Gladio explosives were proven at Peteano, and clarified that the 2000 Italian report was a party draft rather than a commission finding.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsConfirmed
Operation Paperclip
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account around National Archives, Interagency Working Group and Justice Department records. Corrected the recruitment totals, Truman's conditions and the Arthur Rudolph case, and removed unsupported claims about OSI deportations and the number of war criminals.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Finance & EconomicsConfirmed
LIBOR Rate-Rigging Scandal
Latest update: November 2026: Corrected the conviction count and penalty figures, added the July 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling that quashed Tom Hayes's and Carlo Palombo's convictions and the October 2026 Court of Appeal rulings that quashed six more, and updated the dates LIBOR ended.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsPartially True
Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Influence
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded the account to separate the 1963 "Project Mockingbird" wiretap of two columnists, the CIA-media relationships documented by the Church Committee and Carl Bernstein, and the unsupported claim of a single program controlling US media; corrected figures, sources and quotations.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Technology & SurveillanceConfirmed
Facebook Emotional Manipulation Experiment
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account of the 2012 Facebook News Feed experiment from the PNAS paper, PNAS's July 2014 expression of concern, Cornell's statement and the regulator and company responses. Corrected who said the study was 'poorly communicated' (Facebook's COO, not its CTO), the date of the expression of concern (July 3, 2014), and the earlier claim that Facebook's terms plainly covered research.
Nov 6, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsConfirmed
Operation Northwoods
Latest update: November 2026: Expanded the account using the Joint Chiefs' 13 March 1962 memorandum, the record of the 16 March 1962 White House meeting and the 1997-2001 releases. Corrected earlier statements: the memorandum went to the Secretary of Defense rather than to Kennedy, no document shows Kennedy rejecting it by name, and accounts of why Lemnitzer's term as Chairman ended differ without documenting a link to Northwoods.
Nov 5, 2026fact-checked - Government & PoliticsConfirmed
COINTELPRO: FBI Counter-Intelligence Program
Latest update: November 2026: Rebuilt the account around the Church Committee's Book III findings; corrected the description of the 1964 letter to Martin Luther King Jr. (including what the 2014 publication did and did not reveal); clarified what the Fred Hampton litigation and 1983 settlement do and do not establish; and added the 1986 Socialist Workers Party damages breakdown and the January 2026 House disclosure bill.
Nov 5, 2026fact-checked