"Do your own research" is a rallying cry for some QAnon supporters. It encourages others to "do their own research" to prove that Q narratives about the "Deep State," cabal of pedophiles and children being tortured and... Read more

Pre-planned act or attempted act of significant violence against the United States of America or US citizens by one or more domestic non-state actors in order to further an ideological, social or religious cause, or to harm... Read more

"FEMA Camps" are a common conspiracy theory among anti-government extremists, especially the militia movement, that maintains that the U.S. government plans on declaring martial law and imprisoning American dissidents in concentration camps run by FEMA. The theory... Read more

Fictitious financial instruments are fraudulent, typically check-like documents that purport to transfer a sum of money like a check or money order. They are frequently created by adherents of the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement and used... Read more

George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor, philanthropist and Holocaust survivor known for funding progressive political and social causes, usually through grants from his Open Society Foundations. Soros is the frequent target of conspiracy theories claiming that he... Read more

Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory which argues that Jews around the world knowingly fabricated evidence of their own genocide during World War II in order to extract financial reparations from Germany, gain world sympathy and... Read more

Islamist extremism is a marginal and rigid interpretation of Islam which refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of other faiths and secular forms of government. Instead, Islamist extremists declare anyone who does not adhere to their restrictive interpretation... Read more

The alt lite was a loosely connected movement that emerged around 2016, consisting of right-wing activists who rejected the overtly white supremacist ideology of the alt right, but whose hateful impact was more significant than their 'lite'... Read more