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Do You Know Someone Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories? We Want to Hear About It.
The New York Times ^ | 01 June 2022 | Stuart A. Thompson

Posted on 06/01/2022 5:15:29 AM PDT by Theoria

Share your experience if you, a friend or a family member believes or once believed in a popular conspiracy theory.

Conspiracy theories have become an increasingly common problem in the United States. From the QAnon movement to misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines, many Americans have accepted ideas that are not backed by science or fact.

We’re interested in speaking to people who at one point believed in conspiracy theories and other kinds of disinformation but have since reconsidered their views, as well as with people who currently hold those views. If you, a friend or a family member believes or once believed in a conspiracy theory, were part of the QAnon movement or joined an online community that shared misinformation, we’d like to hear from you.

Your experiences will help us understand conspiracy theories in the United States and how they spread and find new members. If you share your contact information, we may get in touch with you to learn more about your experience.

We will not publish your name with your submission without getting your consent.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; conspiracytheory; hoax; lookatqanon; ourveryownqtards; qthread; russia
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To: HYPOCRACY

With regards to election theft and covid crap.


21 posted on 06/01/2022 5:32:59 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Theoria

Every one of us needs to reply that I Used To Believe media was accurate and fair. Boy was I wrong


22 posted on 06/01/2022 5:34:30 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Theoria

Here ya go NYTs....There has been a guy on the radio for about 20 years....I think his name is Alex Jones. All the stuff he talks about is wild conspiracy theories! He’s been right about 95% of the time. Probably want to pass his name on to the deep state....Oh....they already know about him? Ya don’t say....


23 posted on 06/01/2022 5:37:52 AM PDT by Pigsley (I)
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To: Theoria

24 posted on 06/01/2022 5:38:38 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Theoria

The publisher of the New York Times receives weekly payments deposited by the DNC into his personal Panama City brokerage account.

Fearing for his life, the man never leaves home absent two heavily armed body guards. His assassination has been thwarted on seven occasions by a series of surviving body guards


25 posted on 06/01/2022 5:42:53 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: Theoria

We don’t want to investigate them, we just want to mock them.


26 posted on 06/01/2022 5:44:07 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: Theoria
FACT, dismissed as conspiracy; Walter Duranty was a New York Times reporter, who as a paid-for Soviet propagandist, covered up Stalin’s crimes.
27 posted on 06/01/2022 5:44:31 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Theoria

just because you are not paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you.

it is a tarp. (for our dyslexic ferns)


28 posted on 06/01/2022 5:47:56 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: JonPreston

If Armand Hammer’s brother was to be believed, Duranty was compromised and blackmailed by the Soviets as well.


29 posted on 06/01/2022 5:48:42 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: Theoria

I used to believe that liberal Democrats actually cared about the working man and people of color, and now I realize they are just cons working their marks. Does that count?


30 posted on 06/01/2022 5:49:22 AM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: cgbg

Yup. Have nothing to do with this.


31 posted on 06/01/2022 5:50:58 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: Theoria
I learned that Julius Ceasar was murdered due to a conspiracy. That's what the history books report, and some guy named Shakespeare wrote a play about it. I believe that President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated because of a conspiracy and insurrection. The U.S. Army found that there was a conspiracy to kill the president and tried, convicted and hung a number of people. I believe that Adolf Hitler engaged in a conspiracy to burn the German Reichstag, and he then conspired with Josef Stalin to carve up Eastern and Central Europe and started WwII. The history books agree that this happened. Like most Americans, I don't believe that a man named Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and assassinated President Kennedy.

So, I guess someone will be reporting me for such things. I don't consider people who don't believe that conspiracies happen to be intelligent people, just sheep. When something strange happens, always ask qui bono? Occam's Razor holds the the simplest explanation for things is usually the best explanation.
32 posted on 06/01/2022 5:52:32 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Theoria

I know of several lefties who are convinced to the point of insanity that the right is trying to impose a theocratic state on America.

Oh, wait, didn’t the NYT publish something like that in the past?


33 posted on 06/01/2022 5:53:44 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Theoria; Travis McGee; null and void; MtnClimber; Diana in Wisconsin; blam; Kartographer

Making a list and checking it twice. No thanks.


34 posted on 06/01/2022 5:55:13 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Theoria

NYT wants you to just talk to them. Tell them about your family, friends and neighbors and anyone who had a thought something may have been a conspiracy.

It is all in good fun. We just want to study this phenomena that people may believe something other than the official narrative. It is all so silly, so send your stories okay? /s


35 posted on 06/01/2022 5:55:46 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Yes, right on!


36 posted on 06/01/2022 5:57:21 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: Theoria

Like the Russian collusion conspiracy?
Like the ivermectin conspiracy?
Like the voter fraud conspiracy?
Like Biden stopping the USA from using oil through law and regulation?
Like the baby formula conspiracy?
Like the transitory inflation conspiracy?


37 posted on 06/01/2022 5:58:09 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Peak oil was a good one until PDJT proved that wrong.

The magical switch where all the slavery loving southern Democrats became Republicans. Dr. Carol Swain on PraegerU destroys that one.

38 posted on 06/01/2022 6:00:22 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: Theoria
I wonder what Slimes writer, Stuart A Thompson's, FReeper handle is.

Sounds like a few of the $hot $hills.

39 posted on 06/01/2022 6:01:35 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Theoria
Uh, if it's true, than it's not a theory.

40 posted on 06/01/2022 6:07:24 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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