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Katherine Huggins is a New York-based journalist and freelance contributor to the Daily Dot&#8217;s tech and politics section.

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RFK Jr. now runs America’s health system—here are the wildest things we learned about him in the last year

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MAGA just discovered government contracts are public—and are losing their minds

Musk fans call on DOGE to target the Red Cross next—there’s just one problem

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Kash Patel’s close ties to prominent conspiracy theorists called out at confirmation hearing

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An X post on John McAfee’s account revives conspiracies about him being alive

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Conspiracy theorists think the COVID vaccine made woman’s breasts triple G’s

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Fake claims Diddy’s house burned down in L.A. fires keep blowing up

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QAnon cheers Los Angeles fire, except for James Woods

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QAnon thinks Hunter Biden’s house burning down amid L.A. wildfires is too ‘convenient’

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