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2016 U.S. presidential election

The 2016 US presidential election and related controversies

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Jan 29, 2026
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How did Pizzagate and QAnon spread on social media, and what mechanisms allowed debunked claims to persist?

-wikileaks-email-breach">Pizzagate began as a false interpretation of hacked emails and went viral across fringe forums and mainstream platforms, later becoming a core myth in the broader movement . P...

Jan 22, 2026
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What did the Podesta emails published by WikiLeaks actually contain, and how were they verified?

published by WikiLeaks were a large trove—over 20,000 pages released in serialized batches—that exposed internal communications from and illuminated , fundraising and speech excerpts, and political ma...

Jan 15, 2026
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What did conservative think tanks allege about Podesta’s influence and how have independent fact‑checks evaluated those claims?

Conservative outlets and social-media aligned actors circulated a range of allegations that John Podesta used his Clinton-era access and email correspondence to exert improper influence over media, po...

Jan 22, 2026

US Presidential vote totals

A concise inventory of U.S. presidential vote totals requires two parallel tallies: the nationwide popular vote and the state-by-state counts that actually decide the presidency, both of which are tra...

Feb 6, 2026

What did the House Select Committee on Benghazi actually conclude in its final report?

The produced an 800‑page final report in June 2016 that faulted gaps in security and the military response to the 2012 attacks but did not produce new evidence that Secretary of State was culpable for...

Feb 5, 2026

is trump working with the KKK

There is no credible evidence that has a formal, operational partnership with the ; however, his rhetoric and the public endorsements and praise from white‑supremacist figures — notably and Klan‑align...

Feb 5, 2026

Why were the proud boys founded

were founded in 2016 by as a deliberately provocative, male-only group that framed itself as a social club defending “Western” norms against political correctness and perceived cultural erosion; criti...

Feb 1, 2026

How has USA Today's editorial stance on major political issues (e.g., gun control, presidential endorsements) changed over time?

began as a deliberately nonpartisan, "fluff"-oriented national paper that largely avoided political editorials, a posture that defined its brand for decades . That cautious neutrality shifted in the 2...

Jan 10, 2026

Which U.S. political campaigns have documented use of paid crowd services and how were they disclosed?

Paid crowd services — most prominently the firm Crowds on Demand — have verifiable ties to at least one named political effort and alleged ties to a few others; public documentation is sparse because ...

Jan 5, 2026

what was the outcome in the Katie Johnson vs Donald Trump case?

The lawsuit filed under the pseudonym "Katie Johnson" accusing Donald J. Trump (and Jeffrey Epstein) of raping a 13-year-old in 1994 was brought in federal court in 2016, but the matter did not result...