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Turbo Cancer

Turbo cancer is a term used for an anti-vaccine conspiracy theory that claims COVID-19 vaccines, especially mRNA vaccines, are causing vaccinated individuals to develop aggressive, fast-developing cancers. The claim has been debunked by medical experts, and the... Read more

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Scamdemic

“Scamdemic” is a popular conspiratorial term used by some conspiracy theorists, extremists and anti-vaccine activists to describe their belief that the COVID-19 pandemic was deliberately planned and “orchestrated” by global elites as a ruse to enslave humanity... Read more

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Ramadan Abdullah Sha…

Ramadan Shallah was the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group from 1995-2018. Under his leadership, PIJ was responsible for numerous attacks on Israeli citizens and in 2007 he was placed on the FBI's Most Wanted... Read more

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Ramzi Yousef

Ramzi Yousef is a Pakistani Al Qaeda operative who participated in several high profile attacks on behalf of the terrorist group. Yousef was the lead in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York... Read more

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Directed Energy Weap…

Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) are a type of long-ranged weapon that use concentrated electromagnetic energy fired at the speed of light to damage and destroy enemy targets, such as missiles, satellites or drones. DEW research has been... Read more

Conspiracy Theories Non-extremist

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Omar Mateen

Omar Mateen committed the Pulse Nightclub shooting on June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 and injuring 53. During and after the attack, Mateen stated that he was loyal to ISIS and that the recent killing... Read more

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Yahya Sinwar

Yahya Sinwar, widely known as the architect of the October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, was a key Hamas leader who served as the Gaza Political Bureau chief from 2017 until July 2024 and organization-wide Political Bureau... Read more

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Abdullah Azzam

Abdullah Azzam (1941-1989) was an influential Palestinian Salafi jihadist who popularized the concept of 'defensive jihad' during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to encourage foreign volunteer fighters to travel to join the mujahideen movement. After the Soviet... Read more

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Abdullah el Faisal

Abdullah el Faisal is an extremist cleric who was convicted in February 2003 in the United Kingdom of inciting hatred against Jews, Hindus, Christians, Americans and others he considers "unbelievers." He first became an Imam in 1991... Read more

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Abu Bakr al Baghdadi

Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was an Iraqi terrorist and leader of ISIS during its period of territorial expansion in Iraq and Syria. He took over in 2010, and on June 29, 2014, he declared the establishment of... Read more

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