How Conspiracy Talk Helps People Make Sense of the World

March 8, 2023 5g, bill gates, fauci, moon landing, pizzagate

Archived 4 years ago from INSEAD Knowledge
How Conspiracy Talk Helps People Make Sense of the World

From “Pizzagate” to claims the moon landing was faked and the 9/11 attacks being an inside job, conspiracy theories have long swirled around key global events and individuals. In the early days of Covid-19, online platforms became inundated with various possible explanations for the pandemic that …

Conspiracy

March 8, 2023 2020 election, 5g, 9/11, alex jones, bill gates, cia, epstein, flat earth, george soros, illuminati, jfk assassination, moon landing, qanon, ron watkins, roswell, ufos

Archived 4 years ago from Next Luxury
18 of the Craziest Conspiracy Theories People Actually Believe Are …

Conspiracy theories are the belief that powerful forces or sinister political groups are the masterminds of situations, crises, or events. According to these theories, these ominous groups are the puppet masters secretly pulling the strings to make events occur as they wish. But as is often the …

QAnon

February 18, 2023 adrenochrome, moon landing

Archived 4 years ago from The Daily Beast
What Can You Do When Someone in Your Family Goes All QAnon?

There comes a moment in every new Q follower’s life when the person closest to them realizes that they aren’t joking. The Facebook binges and the sudden adoration for Donald Trump have been waved off until now. The stray remarks about missing children and experimental vaccines have been chalked up …

Conspiracy

February 14, 2023 5g, chemtrails, illuminati, moon landing

Archived 4 years ago from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
A Conspiracy Theorist’s Guide to Semicolons

There are a lot of things you should be afraid of—vaccines, chemtrails spreading airborne vaccines, malfunctioning Katy Perrybots—but there’s no need to be scared of using a semicolon (unless you’re using one in a 5G text—then you might as well just give yourself COVID). To show a mastery of this …

Conspiracy

February 5, 2023 5g, bill gates, cia, flat earth, jfk assassination, moon landing, nasa

Archived 4 years ago from Royals Blue
Some of the most famous conspiracy theories: are they real or not?

From a fake moon landing to ideas about the JFK assassination, conspiracy theories and their adherents have abounded for as long as anyone can remember. People have been having ideas about Elvis, John F. Kennedy and Bigfoot being cryogenically frozen in an underground bunker. What starts out as a …

Conspiracy

January 26, 2023 5g, antivax, epstein, marjorie taylor greene, moon landing, tuskegee experiment

Archived 4 years ago from Yahoo! Voices
Science has finally cracked the mystery of why so many people believe in conspiracy theories

People don’t buy into conspiracy theories because of ignorance or social isolation. They do it because of a more prevalent personality quirk: overconfidence.Getty Images; iStock; Alyssa Powell/Insider When it comes to the spread of cockamamie conspiracy theories, Twitter was a maximum viable …

Conspiracy

January 25, 2023 moon landing

Archived 4 years ago from NBC News
One-quarter of mass attackers driven by conspiracy theories or hateful ideologies, Secret Service report says

Following the latest string of mass shootings in the U.S., the Secret Service published a 60-page report Wednesday detailing trends in mass attacks in public spaces to share patterns with community leaders who could help prevent the next tragedy. Among the findings: Although a personal grievance …

The Sudden Rise of the ‘Died Suddenly’ COVID Conspiracy Theory

COVID-19

January 24, 2023 antivax, marjorie taylor greene, mike lindell, moon landing, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from The Atlantic
The Sudden Rise of the ‘Died Suddenly’ COVID Conspiracy Theory

Lisa Marie Presley died unexpectedly earlier this month, and within hours, lacking any evidence, Twitter users were suggesting that her death had been caused by the COVID-19 vaccine. The Twitter account @DiedSuddenly_, which has about 250,000 followers, also started tweeting about it immediately, …

Flat Earth

January 5, 2023 moon landing, nasa

Archived 4 years ago from Christian Flat Earth Ministry
How Smart People Are Wrong About Flat Earther’s

There is a website that Rob Skiba recommended that people see. The address is: aulis.com I went to it and it looks like a lot of contributors are people in academia – smart people. They write about all the screw-ups that we are told by NASA. Rob said that there is a lot of information on their …

Conspiracy

December 25, 2022 flat earth, moon landing, nasa

Archived 4 years ago from Daily Star
Moon landing and aliens – what Matt Le Tissier thinks about biggest conspiracy theories

Very few footballers, past or present, have been as well acquainted with the headlines as Matt Le Tissier. The Southampton legend’s opinions have caused quite the furore over the last couple of years. Whether it is his admittance of breaking lockdown laws, his vaccine scepticism, or his retweeting …

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