An interview with a federal safety regulator quickly became fodder for outrage, viral social media content and political fundraising.

The conservative media was in uproar last week over speculation that the federal government planned to ban gas cooking stoves and possibly seize them. It escalated into something much larger online.

The percentage of Americans who believe in a number of antisemitic tropes has spiked in the past three years, according to the results of a recent survey by the Anti-Defamation League.

In the absence of information about why the Buffalo Bills player collapsed during a game, misleading claims about COVID vaccines quickly spread online.

It's not just high-profile figures who have spouted anti-Semitic language recently. Attacks and harassment against Jewish people have been on the rise, according to researchers.

Prominent conspiracy theorists are on a nationwide tour. They fuse far-right politics, conservative Christianity and lies about vaccines and elections. And they're drawing in crowds of thousands.

Some of the biggest proponents of conspiracy theories about vaccines and elections regularly tour the country together. Many of the speakers are closely tied to former president Donald Trump.

Election deniers in Georgia are trying to cast doubt on the state's voting machines. They are calling for them to be scrapped weeks before the midterms.

Revelations from Jones' defamation trials point to the existence of a rarified class of extreme internet personalities who are better shielded from efforts to stem the reach of their content.

Wealthy and powerful sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been dead for three years, but members of the far-right keep invoking him in conspiracy theories to smear their opponents.

The FBI search of former President Trump's home in Florida has kicked off a series of conspiracy theories alleging nefarious conduct by the government.

In Georgia, a defense attorney in the trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery apologized on Friday. It follows controversial statements he made about the presence of black pastors in the courtroom.

The Department of Justice is launching a probe into the conditions of Georgia's state prison system, citing high levels of violence and gang activity.

The investigation continues into Tuesday's shootings of eight people at the Atlanta-area businesses Gold Spa, Aromatherapy Spa and Youngs Asian Massage.

The suspect in the shooting deaths of eight people in the Atlanta area is due to be arraigned on murder charges Thursday. Most of the victims are women of Asian descent.

Georgia authorities say the suspect in Tuesday's Atlanta spa shootings claimed a 'sex addiction' and that he wasn't racially motivated, though six of the eight killed were women of Asian descent.

New Republican member of Congress Marjorie Taylor Greene is a polarizing figure both in Washington, DC and in her district in Georgia, where voters are mixed about her presence in the U.S. House.

State Republican election officials say that there's no evidence of any widespread fraud and that these conspiracy theories are "crazy" and like a game of "whack-a-mole."

Many Republicans believe President Trump's false rhetoric that the election was stolen. But some worry that such messaging could harm the party's chances in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoffs.

Lowering gun violence was one issue on which Democratic presidential candidates spoke with nearly one voice. But researchers question the effectiveness of some of the Democrats' proposals.