Sovereign Citizens
‘Recipe for Disaster’: COVID Truthers Want To Set Up Separatist Collectives
Plans by conspiracy theorists to build their own “utopian” villages in the English countryside have anti-extremism experts concerned.
COVID Truthers Are Having Their Own ‘Red Pill’ Glasto
Danny Rampling and Right Said Fred are involved in the three-day music festival that only features artists affiliated with the COVID conspiracist scene.
3 Arrested at ‘Sovereign Citizen Compound’ in California With Guns and Explosives
Police pulled over two self-described sovereign citizens and then carried out a search warrant at the compound near Joshua Tree where they lived.
COVID ‘Truther’ Who Claims She’s on the Lam Spoke at a Major Conference
Dolores Cahill showed up at a major COVID conspiracist conference in England, despite claiming to be wanted by Irish authorities for breaking lockdown rules.
The Davos of COVID Conspiracy Theorists Is Happening in a UK Town Right Now
Experts fear the 3-day Better Way Conference, which is a veritable who’s who of global anti-vax influencers, may lead to deeper radicalisation within the scene.
Antisemitic Crimes Are Surging in Germany
A Jewish community leader said the pandemic had acted as an “accelerant” for hate, as Germany recorded its highest number of politically motivated crimes since records began.
I Trained to Become a Fake Cop with COVID Conspiracists
VICE World News went undercover with sovereign citizen COVID “truthers” who believe they can declare themselves exempt from laws they don’t like.
Anti-Vaxxers Can’t Just Dress Up as Cops, Court Rules
A British couple who wore police hats and hi-vis vests were told to stop cosplaying as cops, as a court convicted them of impersonating police.
Anti-Vaxxers Are Staking Everything on a Police Investigation That Doesn’t Exist
Efforts to stop the UK vaccine rollout based on a crime reference number are failing, leading to frustration and threats of more direct action. “It’s incredibly dangerous,” a misinformation expert told VICE World News.
COVID Conspiracy Theorists ‘Alpha Men Assemble’ Hold Combat Training Sessions in UK
“If Alpha Men Assemble were a US-based group, those videos would have them shooting guns in a field, without a shadow of a doubt,” said one misinformation expert.
Anti-Vaxxers Are Using Facebook to Spread Sovereign Citizen Conspiracies
Some anti-vaxxers have seen their accounts grow by 13,000% since the pandemic began.
Sovereign Citizens Are Trying To Set Up Their Own Anti-Vax Schools in the UK
The plans could wreak havoc with the education of thousands of children, experts told VICE World News.