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  • 2018-06-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Was Anthony Bourdain Killed by Clinton Operatives? (en)
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  • Conspiracy theories surrounding the June 2018 suicide of Anthony Bourdain grew ever more ridiculous in the days immediately following as fake news web sites trumpeted the notion that his death was somehow connected with incurring the wrath of Hillary Clinton. Shortly after one such site falsely reported that Bourdain had been preparing to expose an elite pedophile ring Clinton was supposedly involved in, another — YourNewsWire.com — upped the ante by suggesting he was killed by Clinton operatives for saying Clinton was fully aware of campaign donor Harvey Weinstein's predatory sexual activities: It’s no secret that people who cross the Clinton’s [sic] wind up dead ... mostly from suicide, the article continued, invoking a decades-old, long-debunked conspiracy theory linking Bill and Hillary Clinton to the supposedly mysterious deaths of some 50 former associates. But apart from a displaying a series of tweets from 2017 in which Bourdain did, in fact, take Hillary Clinton to task for what he termed her disappointing initial response to the Weinstein allegations, provoking an irate response from one of her aides, the article offered no substantiation whatsoever for its central claim, namely that Bourdain's death was connected to his crossing her. In asserting that connection (attributed to unnamed investigators), the web site was plying its stock-in-trade — that is, blending fact, fiction, and hyperbole to weave conspiracy-drenched clickbait stories for social media consumption. Previously published YourNewsWire.com articles promoted such idiotic claims as Melania Trump hired an exorcist to rid the White House of demons, former child actor Macauley Culkin accused Satanic Hollywood executives of wearing shoes made from murdered children, and Pope Francis ordered white women to breed with Muslims. French authorities have confirmed that Bourdain's death in Colmar, France, where he was filming a television show, was a suicide. They found no evidence of foul play. (en)
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