Rhode Island congressional candidate fills Facebook page with conspiracy theories [View all]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A candidate in the Sept. 12 Democratic primary for the 1st Congressional District in Rhode Island has shared a number of conspiracy theories on his Facebook page.
Among the unfounded and outright untrue things that Christopher Young has shared this year with his nearly 5,000 friends — allegations of celebrities and government figures with ties to pedophilia, a suggestion that Hillary Clinton was involved in the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. and suggestions that sunscreen causes cancer.
The posts attribute a quote to special counsel Robert Mueller that the debunking website Snopes says he never said.
Young is running against Democratic U.S. Rep. David Cicilline in the primary. When Young ran against Cicilline in a 2016 primary, he won about a third of the vote.
In two sometimes-contentious interviews Thursday, Young defended the posts, saying some — like one showing former President Barack Obama dressed in a Satanic outfit — were meant to be satirical. But Young still has questions and doubts about, among other things, the official version of events surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and the safety of vaccines.
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