Politics

Gemma O’Doherty and Conspiracy Theories.

Over the past year or so, former Irish Independent journalist Gemma O’Doherty has been steadily sliding further and further into the world of conspiracy theories.

Why did Ireland vote twice on the Lisbon Treaty?

Whenever this topic is brought up, Eurosceptics will often try to frame it as though Ireland was forced to vote on the exact same treaty twice.

Are Irish people religious? Is the Catholic Church dying in Ireland?

In the not-too-distant past, the people of Ireland were extremely religious. For the most part, they were devout Catholics.

/r/conspiracy – Reddit’s conspiracy subreddit is owned by the alt-right.

Reddit’s main conspiracy subreddit has been taken over and co-opted by the alt-right.

Russian bots on Reddit.

Two days ago, Reddit released their 2017 transparency report. In this report, they included a list of the 944 accounts that they had banned during their investigation into Russian efforts to exploit Reddit.