He spent eight years in the White House, nearly every move recorded by press and watched by staff. But six years after f
Former President Barack Obama speaks in support of Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., during a rally on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, in Atlanta. In August, claims and conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama’s sexuality flooded social media platforms. The claims were not new, but they were fueled by a robust online misinformation ecosystem that did not exist when they emerged more than a decade earlier.
The claim percolated across social media and conservative news sites for weeks throughout August and reverberated throughout September.said"Obama once wrote to ex-girlfriend that he ‘repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men,’ biographer says." A day later, Infowars, the website founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, published aReally clear? As part of PolitiFact’s work reporting on misinformation online, we found this claim to be anything but.
It also weaves into existing conspiracies. Allegations by Sinclair include drug use, secret limo rendezvous and murder, drawing on broader,-like fears of hidden and violent sexual behavior by powerful people. That conspiracy theory holds that powerful, left-leaning figures from politics, business and entertainment are part of a cabal that engages in pedophilia and cannibalism.
Garrow told PolitiFact he included the passage in the paperback because,"My whole attitude is you just put things on the record." But the paragraph did not change the biographer’s view of Obama or his sexuality.Larry Sinclair’s statementsOn June 18, 2008, Sinclair, then 46 and living in Duluth, Minnesota, held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
In the world of conspiracy theories, Rice said,"things that are secret and hidden, become almost de facto proof that something very nefarious or evil is happening." Interview with Joshua Darr, Associate Professor of Political Communication at Syracuse University, Sept. 12, 2023 Obama biographer who revealed ex-president's 'gay fantasies' brands him 'as insecure as Trump' and warns 'lazy' ex-leader would make 'TERRIBLE' Supreme Court justice
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