Rabbit Hole

See what people are claiming online - rumors, conspiracy theories, and questionable content.

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We collect stories that are spreading online - things like conspiracy theories, fake videos, and propaganda - so you can see what's being said and make up your own mind about what's real.

Propaganda

Agenda-pushing content

Rumor

Unverified theories

Deepfake

AI-generated fakes

Influence Ops

Organized campaigns

Evidence = How much proof exists
Mystery = How intriguing it is
French protesters tear EU flag at ‘Frexit’ rally (VIDEO)
Propaganda

French protesters tear EU flag at ‘Frexit’ rally (VIDEO)

French demonstrators tore up an EU flag at a rally calling for the country’s withdrawal from the bloc Read Full Article at RT.com

Evidence 0/5
Mystery 1/5
Feb 02, 2026 0
Immigration Agents Have Located more than 145,000 Illegal Alien Children Lost under Biden Admin
Rumor

Immigration Agents Have Located more than 145,000 Illegal Alien Children Lost under Biden Admin

Federal agents have located more than 145,000 illegal alien children whose whereabouts were unknown under the Biden administration

Evidence 1/5
Mystery 3/5
Feb 02, 2026 0
Rumor

SICK: Epstein Spoke with Renowned Scientist about Benefits of Turning Children Trans — Alex Jones Responds!

Jeffrey Epstein spoke with a Harvard scientist about the sexual benefits of turning children trans, in a horrifying email released on Friday as part of the latest Epstein disclosures from the Department of Justice

Evidence 1/5
Mystery 4/5
Feb 02, 2026 0
An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration
Rumor

An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration

Two years before Trump sent Kilmar Ábrego García to CECOT, the Bukele regime arrested a U.S. citizen for his tattoos. The Biden administration didn’t intervene. The post An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration appeared first on The Intercept .

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 3/5
Feb 02, 2026 0
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
Rumor

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting

The post Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting appeared first on ProPublica .

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 2/5
Feb 02, 2026 0
‘We’ll find out’: Trump responds to Khamenei’s warning
Propaganda

‘We’ll find out’: Trump responds to Khamenei’s warning

President Donald Trump has said the world would soon see whether Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was correct in his warning Read Full Article at RT.com

Evidence 0/5
Mystery 2/5
Feb 02, 2026 0
British MP resigns over Epstein links
Propaganda

British MP resigns over Epstein links

Former British ambassador to the US Lord Peter Mandelson has resigned from the Labour Party to avoid “further embarrassment” Read Full Article at RT.com

Evidence 0/5
Mystery 3/5
Feb 02, 2026 0
KEY ANALYSIS: Babylon The Great Harlot Is HERE!
Rumor

KEY ANALYSIS: Babylon The Great Harlot Is HERE!

Watch & share!

Evidence 1/5
Mystery 5/5
Feb 02, 2026 0
He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing.
Rumor

He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing.

A man who contradicted the government narrative about a prior shooting found himself pinned to the ground and detained after Pretti’s death. The post He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing. appeared first on The Intercept .

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 4/5
Feb 02, 2026 0
“Melania” Is as Vacuous as Its Subject
Rumor

“Melania” Is as Vacuous as Its Subject

Melania Trump seems so unfazed by the sins of her milieu, it only makes sense that the film’s director is in the Epstein files. The post “Melania” Is as Vacuous as Its Subject appeared first on The Intercept .

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 3/5
Feb 02, 2026 0
Influence

ALETHEIA: Combating Social Media Influence Campaigns with Graph Neural Networks

Influence campaigns are a growing concern in the online spaces. Policymakers, moderators and researchers have taken various routes to fight these campaigns and make online systems safer for regular users. To this end, our paper presents ALETHEIA, a system that formalizes the detection of malicious accounts (or troll accounts) used in such operations and forecasts their behaviors within social media networks. We analyze influence campaigns on Reddit and X from different countries and highlight...

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 2/5
Feb 01, 2026 1
Influence

Foreign influencer operations: How TikTok shapes American perceptions of China

How do authoritarian regimes strengthen global support for nondemocratic political systems? Roughly half of the users of the social media platform TikTok report getting news from social media influencers. Against this backdrop, authoritarian regimes have increasingly outsourced content creation to these influencers. To gain understanding of the extent of this phenomenon and the persuasive capabilities of these influencers, we collect comprehensive data on pro-China influencers on TikTok. We s...

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 3/5
Feb 01, 2026 0
Deepfake

Social Media - No, Donald Trump didn’t post that ‘only criminals carry guns.’ It’s a fake Truth Social post

Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, “Only criminals carry guns on our streets, we need law and order.”

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 1/5
Feb 01, 2026 0
Rumor

Major Gross Profit - Scam emails falsely claims people ‘must act’ to claim a $2,000 ‘tariff dividend’

“Trump’s $2,000 tariff dividend is live but you must act.”

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 1/5
Feb 01, 2026 0
Rumor

Do 70% of immigrant detainees have criminal convictions or charges? Fact-checking Kristi Noem

What percent of ICE detainees have criminal histories?

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 1/5
Feb 01, 2026 0
Rumor

What legal rights do you have in encounters with ICE?

What legal rights do you have in encounters with ICE?

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 1/5
Feb 01, 2026 0
Rumor

When Hallucination Costs Millions: Benchmarking AI Agents in High-Stakes Adversarial Financial Markets

We present CAIA, a benchmark exposing a critical blind spot in AI evaluation: the inability of state-of-the-art models to operate in adversarial, high-stakes environments where misinformation is weaponized and errors are irreversible. While existing benchmarks measure task completion in controlled settings, real-world deployment demands resilience against active deception. Using crypto markets as a testbed where $30 billion was lost to exploits in 2024, we evaluate 17 models on 178 time-ancho...

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 3/5
Feb 01, 2026 1
Rumor

10 claims about Trump's 'border czar' Tom Homan we've investigated

We dug through our archives after Trump dispatched Homan to Minneapolis to oversee the administration's self-described immigration crackdown there.

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 2/5
Feb 01, 2026 0
Deepfake

DIVER: Dynamic Iterative Visual Evidence Reasoning for Multimodal Fake News Detection

Multimodal fake news detection is crucial for mitigating adversarial misinformation. Existing methods, relying on static fusion or LLMs, face computational redundancy and hallucination risks due to weak visual foundations. To address this, we propose DIVER (Dynamic Iterative Visual Evidence Reasoning), a framework grounded in a progressive, evidence-driven reasoning paradigm. DIVER first establishes a strong text-based baseline through language analysis, leveraging intra-modal consistency to ...

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 2/5
Feb 01, 2026 1
Rumor

Real videos show confrontation between Alex Pretti and federal officers days before his death

Pretti's family has confirmed the authenticity of the footage, which allegedly shows him kicking a vehicle being driven by federal agents.

Evidence 2/5
Mystery 2/5
Feb 01, 2026 0