President Trump made a whopper of a claim on Monday, suggesting that the media is deliberately ignoring terrorist attacks. And it's a theme that has cropped up on other conspiracy theory and right-wing websites from time to time. The idea of the media covering up or not fully covering terrorist attacks was around before InfoWars picked it up, though. After Benghazi, the media were often accused of not sufficiently covering the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost -- or refusing to label it terrorism. What InfoWars is doing now is taking the next step -- accusing the media of covering up the attacks.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2017 21:45 UTC