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Wildfire of Conspiracy Theories: Disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories about the Los Angeles area wildfires have spread in far right spaces online.
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Wildfire of Conspiracy Theories
Disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories about the Los Angeles area wildfires have spread in far right spaces online.
![January 6, 2025: Rumble selected as one of its “editor picks” a video claiming that a “reptilian race controls Earth” and are trying to create a “one-world government” — a conspiracy theory reportedly tied to violence and antisemitism. The video from the show The Why Files, titled “The Seventh Experiment: Lacerta Reveals the Truth of our Creation,” claims that a lizard figure named Lacerta (which is also the name of a type of lizard) admitted that reptilians roam the world and use telepathy to “command” people to see them “as normal humans,” despite their “reptilian look.” The Why Files’ episode thumbnail includes an apparent image of Lacerta.
The show’s host claims that “another reptilian race controls Earth” and are “disguised as leaders in finance, media, and politics” in order to “manipulate global events, steering us toward a one-world government.” He also mentions David Icke, who originally popularized the reptilian conspiracy theory, saying that Lacerta “confirms a lot of” Icke’s claims. Business Insider in 2021 covered the likely antisemitic background of the concept, noting that Icke’s written commentary about the conspiracy theory is “clearly evocative of the centuries-old blood-libel conspiracy theory, which alleged that a cabal of Jews were controlling the world and drinking the blood of Christian children.” [The Why Files, 1/4/25; Rumble, 1/4/25; The Guardian, 4/17/16, 2/20/19; BBC, 4/7/20; Business Insider, 1/7/21]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreigb64blcmfvnzybjnhetfzfz6itsvkn24op743zeysokfi7mshkdu)
