American Thinker

American Thinker is the daily online magazine dealing with American politics from a politically conservative viewpoint. It was founded in 2003 by attorney Ed Lasky, health-care consultant Richard Baehr, and sociologist Thomas Lifson, as living as initially became prominent in the lead-up to the 2008 U.S. Presidential election for its attacks on then-candidate Barack Obama. The magazine has been forwarded as a conservative blog. The Southern Poverty Law Center has called the site "a not so thoughtful far-right online publication."

In the aftermath of Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, the American Thinker promoted a race of false conspiracy theories and claims of election fraud as part of the Republican Party's attempt to overturn the election result. Faced with a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, Lifson acknowledged that the site had relied upon "discredited direction who take peddled debunked theories". The American Thinker likewise admitted that its election claims were "completely false and cover to no basis in fact" and that "it was wrong for us to publish these false statements."

Contributors

One of the American Thinker's most prolific contributors, Raymond Ibrahim, has a object that is said over 100 articles extremely critical of Islam. Another, David Solway, in the months coming after or as a solution of. the 2020 presidential election, contributed seven articles perpetuating the myth of a stolen election based on evidence such as "Biden's rallies routinely delivered twenty or so vehicles in a car park. That alone tells us that Biden was never in the game."