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Are there governments or other organizations purposely spreading these conspiracies? Or, do they mostly appear from emergent collective behavior?
by afpx 6y ago
Are there governments or other organizations purposely spreading these conspiracies? Or, do they mostly appear from emergent collective behavior?
- alphabettsy 6y agoSometimes, yes. The current US President has offered up quite a few theories about Covid. I’m not sure it’s fair to say that he created them though as much as spread them, but there are media and political organizations that spread theories about Covid, climate change, vaccines, etc.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoNot collective - driven and organised. Some recent examples. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/troll-farms-macedonia-philippines-pushed-coronavirus-disinformation-facebook-n1218376 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/troll-farms-macedonia... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/21/groups-fossil-fuel-funding-urge-states-reopen-amid-pandemic https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/21/groups-f... https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/20/859814085/researchers-nearly-half-of-accounts-tweeting-about-coronavirus-are-likely-bots?t=1606645841991 https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
- fit2rule 6y agoThe CIA conspired to make it easier to sell weapons and foment war in Syria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore They used Obama's image to make it more palatable to the resistant Western Europeans...
- tzs 6y agort.com put a fair amount of effort into promoting the 5G health theories. Here's a comment from a year ago [1] that includes links to 5 of their video segments on 5G. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20788559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20788559