Has ‘Grand Theft Auto’ gone ‘woke?’ Notorious YouTuber pushes unfounded claims about game’s new female protagonist

A channel for the notorious YouTuber Keemstar, real name Daniel Keem, is claiming that the recently revealed female protagonist in Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA6) is “rumored to be transgender.” In a post on the X account for his YouTube channel known as DramaAlert, Keem cited a post on Reddit as evidence of the character’s …

Taylor Swift’s Publicist Is Pretty Mad Over Unfounded Rumors That Taylor Swift And Joe Alwyn Were Married

Getty Image As far as the public knows, Taylor Swift has never been married. That hasn’t stopped celebrity gossip social media account Deuxmoi from claiming she and Joe Alwyn had some sort of arrangement that had apparently been described as a “marriage.” Tree Paine, Swift’s longtime publicist, caught wind of this, and she’s not happy. …

A TikTok about a ‘giant’ on a mountaintop is fueling unfounded rumors of a CIA assassination 

A rumor spreading rapidly online claims that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) murdered a man over a video that supposedly showed a giant. Last spring, a man posted a TikTok of a “giant” atop a mountain in Canada. The footage is grainy and the figure is impossible to discern at the distance from which it …

Facebook voter registration drive prompts unfounded election rigging conspiracies

Sept. 20 is National Voter Registration Day. The date was chosen because it gives people time to meet registration deadlines necessary to cast a ballot in November. As it’s done for years, to mark the occasion, Facebook added a notification asking users if they’re registered to vote and a link to help them navigate the …