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Today’s claims include the conspiracy theory that the weekend attack on pro-Israel demonstrators in Colorado was a “false flag”; that Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced with a clone; and that vaccines contain microchips that emit Bluetooth signals — so that we can all be tracked, presumably.
Today’s newsletter was edited by Sofia Rubinson and Eric Effron.
What happened: Anti-Israel social media users are claiming that the June 1 attack at a Boulder, Colorado, rally in support of Israeli hostages was a “false flag” staged by Israel to gain sympathy and deflect criticism over its treatment of Palestinians.
This claim fits into a broader pattern of social media accounts falsely blaming anti-Israel and antisemitic incidents on Israel itself.
A closer look: Almost immediately after news broke that a man had thrown Molotov cocktails into a crowd rallying for Israeli hostages in Gaza — an attack that left eight people hospitalized with burns and other injuries — accounts that frequently post anti-Israel or anti-Jewish content claimed that the...
The Hindu reported on Saturday that the Tribal Council in Nicobar islands has written a fresh letter to the Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram about the island administration’s claims of settling t...