Sovereign Citizens
America’s Most Influential Sovereign Citizen Was Arrested, and He’s Already Grifting Off It
David Straight makes hundreds of thousands of dollars convincing people they can't be arrested if they follow his rules. Then he got arrested.
‘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.