Issue 49: Dossier
All the key QAnon lingo you missed on 8chan.
500 Articles by: Editors
Issue 49: The Internet Speaks
They’re plotting against us. So our ear is to the ground.
Too Good to Be True
Publishers love a good story. And some of the best ones are completely bogus.
Iconoclashes
Conspiracy theories are rife with esoteric motifs. But what do those symbols actually represent?
Aliens Built the Pyramids
Some people suspect that humanity’s greatest achievements aren’t human achievements at all. Some people suspect that humanity’s greatest achievements aren’t human achievements at all.
Urban Legends, Urban Truths
The 1998 B-list slasher film Urban Legend unleashes on its protagonists a host of horrors from the American folk canon. Some have their roots in real life.
The Family That Slays Together Stays Together
The Manson Family left a trail of bodies in 1969. No one should have been surprised.
The QAnon Shaman Speaks!
And he sounds like . . . a hippie?
Issue 49: Misery Index
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
The Land of Milk and Honey
The Caribbean has a reputation for its lenient tax laws, but the United States is the second-biggest tax haven in the world.
A Killer in the Castle
What actually happened to Nepal’s royal family on June 2, 2001?
Sea Change
There remains a fortune to be made at sea — but no longer in Somalia. Modern pirates have turned their attention to the Singapore Strait and the South China Sea.
Illness as Metaphor
Between 2013 and 2016, Ebola claimed more than 11,000 lives in West Africa. Beginning in 2018, another two-year wave of the devastating disease caused a further 2,000 deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These days, even when Ebola itself isn’t spreading, false conspiracy theories about it are.
Royal Treatment
People have been speculating about the British royal family for centuries. You decide which conjectures might be true.
When Uncle Sam Desperately Wanted to Whack Fidel
The Cold War’s greatest Road Runner and Coyote shit show.
Friends in High Places
Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia — not to mention the man behind the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — has a host of American celebrity friends.
The Conspiracy Behind the Anti-Vax Movement
How a fraudulent 1998 study launched a movement.
Incubation Period
Inquiry into the origin of COVID-19 has been as political as it has been scientific.