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Do you know where that first term comes from? It's strongly related to the second.
by jakeogh 8y ago
Do you know where that first term comes from? It's strongly related to the second.
- ionised 8y agoAre you suggesting the term 'conspiracy theorist' is somehow a new thing tied to the emergence of 'fake news'?
- jakeogh 8y agoThe 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