New pan-European research has shown that the spread of conspiracy theories across the continent is driven by a continuous feedback loop between media reporting, political rhetoric, protest movements and social media algorithms - not any single cause.The REDACT project involves 14 researchers from across Europe, and it has examined how conspiracy...
  • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I just checked around and found the original press-release via King’s College here. This article is more elaborate, and it seems a huge massive project by Redact

    • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.orgEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      It seems like there’s a lot of truth in many conspiracies and that bullshit gets added to the stories to make them conspiracy. …as a way to discredit them.

      I think people are extremely naive to the point they basically bought into being slaves and are proud about it.

    • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      Conspiracy being a real phenomenon and the manufacture and spread of conspiracy theories to help one particular narrative are two separate concepts.

      MKUltra and Illuminati running the world/flat earth/young earth/great replacement/etc are two different types of things. You have to ask who benefits from spreading the idea around. Flat/young earth is a particularly easy example, certain religious movements benefit from convincing people those are valid ideas.