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It didn't start out that way. It started with conspiracy theorists and fake news.

• jakeogh 8y ago
  Do you know where that first term comes from? It's strongly related to the second.
  • ionised 8y ago
    Are you suggesting the term 'conspiracy theorist' is somehow a new thing tied to the emergence of 'fake news'?
    • jakeogh 8y ago
      The other way around. Fake news and the older term have the the same origins. Neither are accidental. Both are designed to short-circuit critical thinking. Consider how logically meaningless the term "conspiracy theory" is. A great deal of US law is specifically written to address conspiracies. They are forms of psychological warfare. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15003606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15003606