Tag: Conspiracy Theory

Wayfair’s High-Priced Furniture Not Connected to Child Trafficking

Cielito Wang

Wayfair, an online furniture retailer, has been accused of involvement in child trafficking through allegedly using high-priced furniture listings as a front. The claim first emerged in July 2020 and spread rapidly across Twitter and Reddit. Social media users cited Wayfair’s expensive storage cabinets—some with human names—as supposed evidence of trafficking. Conspiracy theorists claimed these […]

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Fact Check: No, Phantom Comics Did Not Prophesize about ‘China Virus’ in 1957…

Aavya Ray

The original comic shows Phantom asking people to protect themselves from the ‘sleep death’ and not ‘China virus’. Several conspiracy theories regarding the Covid-19 pandemic had cropped up since the outbreak of the virus. As a new variant of this Covid-19 virus named as ‘Omicron’ becomes a global concern, new conspiracy theories have started surfacing […]

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