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Drake has formalized his contentious battle against Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track “Not Like Us” by going after Universal Music Group, filing a defamation and harassment lawsuit against the major music conglomerate on Wednesday.

The Canadian-born rapper, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, claims Umg “unleashed every weapon in its arsenal” in the company’s campaign to turn the diss-track into a “viral hit,” according to the 81-page complaint obtained by Rolling Stone. Drake claims the song itself was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable, and false factual allegation...

If endorsing antisemitic posts wasn’t enough, Elon Musk has now advanced several rungs in the batshit conspiracy ladder into engaging with a post pushing Pizzagate.

Last week, Musk wrote “You have said the actual truth” in response to a post from an X user claiming Jewish people were responsible for promoting “dialectical hatred against whites.” The X owner promoting the antisemitic conspiracy theory drew widespread backlash, including from the White House.

The following morning, Media Matters, a nonprofit progressive media watchdog, published a study showing that X had been...

In one of the most chilling sequences of “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News” (there’s plenty of competition), we see dash-cam footage of Edgar Maddison Welch, the assault-rifle-toting “avenger” at the center of the Pizzagate insanity, as he drives from Salisbury, N.C., to Washington, D.C., to put an end to what he thought was a child sex-slave ring being run out of a popular restaurant. Bearded and resolved, with hipster rings on his fingers and a wool cap pulled down to his eyebrows, the 28-year-old Welch, staring at the highway ahead, looks and sounds like a meaner version of Bradley Cooper in “A Star Is Born.” Which made me think: Wouldn’t it be riveting to see an actor like Cooper play a wing-nut like Welch? Not to caricature him, but to understand him.

It’s often alleged, by those on the right, that...

Comet Ping Pong, the pizza parlor at the center of the 2016 election’s bizarre “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, can’t catch a break. An unidentified suspect broke into the restaurant on Wednesday and intentionally set fires, D.C. police said.

According to the Washington Post, arson investigators found burned matches on the floor below curtains in a backroom of the restaurant as well as an open bottle of lighter fluid on a table. The curtains caught fire but the flames were extinguished by staff before the fire spread further.

On Friday,...

Washington — John Podesta has given it a lot of thought and believes the best way to deal with the trolls is to ignore them. His wife, Mary, however, takes a different approach. When angry people call their home in the middle of the night, she has a conversation with them.

“She sits on the phone and talks to them, which is disconcerting actually to most of the people who are calling just to leave a nasty message on your voicemail,” Podesta says. “When somebody actually engages them and says, ‘Why are you doing this?...