Which specific conspiracy theories has candace owens repeated or amplified on twitter since 2020?
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Executive summary
Candace Owens has repeatedly amplified coronavirus-related conspiracies — including claims COVID-19 deaths were overcounted and that the virus was “never as fatal” as experts said — and promoted a variety of other unverified or debunked narratives on social media since 2020 (Business Insider coverage) [1]. In 2024–2025 reporting she has also pushed wide-ranging conspiratorial claims about the 2025 assassination of Charlie Kirk, alleging betrayal, fraud and a cover-up by people close to him; those allegations have been widely described as unfounded and have drawn public pushback from Kirk’s family and associates (CBS News; The Bulwark; Daily Caller; Mediaite) [2] [3] [4] [5] [6].
1. Early pandemic conspiracies: minimizing COVID’s danger
During the spring of 2020 Owens used Twitter and stunts to advance COVID-related conspiracies, arguing the virus “was never as fatal” as experts said and promoting the view that deaths were being overcounted — claims Business Insider described as part of her boosting coronavirus conspiracy theories [1]. PopularTimelines likewise lists her April 2020 assertion that COVID-19 deaths were overcounted among her controversies, noting that public-health experts contested that position [7]. These tweets and stunts helped seed doubt about official mortality figures at a time of high public uncertainty [1] [7].
2. Repeating and amplifying unverified claims about high-profile events
Reporting shows Owens has repeatedly advanced speculative narratives around sensational events. Examples include her online promotion of disputed or doctored material and public conjecture tied to major stories; Business Insider documented at least one incident where a screenshot she shared was called “doctored,” and she doubled down that the tweet was real [1]. These episodes illustrate a pattern of amplifying material that other outlets flagged as unverified [1].
3. QAnon and child-sex ring narratives: what the record shows (and doesn’t)
Available sources in this packet note the broader QAnon ecosystem and the circulation of child-sex ring theories online, but the Deseret News piece explicitly states that Owens and hosts did not discuss the child sex ring theory on that particular broadcast, and other items here do not document her endorsing QAnon wholesale [8]. PopularTimelines mentions her broader history of promoting conspiracy theories but does not provide a sourced claim that she directly advanced the QAnon child-abuse core theory on Twitter [7]. Therefore: sources here document the presence of QAnon in the wider media landscape, but available sources do not mention Owens explicitly promoting QAnon’s child-sex ring claim on Twitter [8] [7].
4. The Charlie Kirk case: sustained, high-profile conspiracy allegations
In 2025 Owens shifted into sustained conspiratorial allegations about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, publicly suggesting betrayal, financial impropriety, and conspiratorial involvement by people close to him. CBS News reports she “has pushed conspiracy theories about his murder and made unfounded fraud allegations” [2]. Mediaite and The Bulwark capture the intensity of the dispute: Turning Point USA figures and Kirk’s widow publicly denounced Owens’s claims, and internal conservative outlets and hosts have mobilized to rebut her allegations [5] [3]. The Daily Caller summarizes a litany of specific assertions she made about complicity and betrayal, which TPUSA representatives described as reckless and harmful [6].
5. Disputed evidence and reactions inside the conservative movement
Coverage shows significant pushback from conservative circles as well as from the victim’s family. Erika Kirk publicly demanded Owens stop, and TPUSA associates organized efforts to refute her claims, saying they produced harassment and false allegations against many people [2] [5] [6]. The Bulwark frames Owens’s behavior as a rupture with conservative norms and notes criticism from figures who once worked with her [3]. These sources present competing perspectives: Owens as a provocateur raising “truth” claims versus colleagues who call her allegations baseless and damaging [3] [2] [5].
6. What reporting here does not document
The assembled sources document a pattern — pandemic minimization/overcount claims in 2020 and extensive conspiratorial claims about Charlie Kirk in 2025 — plus broader labeling of Owens as a promoter of conspiracy theories [1] [7] [3] [4]. Available sources do not provide a comprehensive, itemized catalog of every specific conspiracy theory Owens has tweeted since 2020 (that exhaustive list is not found in current reporting here), nor do they show documented endorsements of every fringe movement (for example, explicit QAnon child-ring endorsements on her Twitter are not demonstrated in these sources) [8] [7].
Conclusion: The sources supplied show two clear strands in Owens’s public social-media record since 2020 — pandemic-related minimization/overcounting claims in 2020 and extensive, high‑profile conspiratorial allegations after Charlie Kirk’s 2025 assassination — and they document significant pushback from journalists, conservative peers, and the victim’s family calling many of her claims unfounded [1] [7] [2] [5] [6] [3]. For a full, verifiable list of every theory she tweeted, primary-source collection (her archived tweets and timestamps) would be required; that is not provided in the current reporting (not found in current reporting).