FBI says “extremists” motivated by Pizzagate, QAnon are threats

Enlarge / The seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) hangs on a wall before a news conference at the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, on Thursday, June 14, 2018. (credit: Al Drago/Bloomberg | Getty)

The modern era of the Internet has given us a seemingly never-ending bounty of farfetched conspiracy theories. Some of the loudest of those fringe movements have become pervasive enough and serious enough to qualify as domestic terror threats, the FBI says.

Yahoo News today published an internal FBI document it obtained warning of "conspiracy-theory-driven domestic extremists."

The memo, dated May 30, describes "anti-government, identity-based, and fringe political conspiracy theories" as likely to motivate extremists "to commit criminal or violent activity."

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