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...
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I feel like immediately discrediting conspiracy theories loses weight every time they’re proven correct and nobody is held accountable for it.
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.
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.