Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: ‘What happens when no one believes anything anymore?’

AP ^ | 01/31/24 | DAVID KLEPPER

[mcenedo]

Days after Maui’s wildfires killed scores of people and destroyed thousands of homes last August, a shocking claim spread with alarming speed on YouTube and TikTok: The blaze on the Hawaiian island was set deliberately, using futuristic energy weapons developed by the U.S. military.

[Nateman]

It all adds up to a land grab. Almost like they wanted to kill the people and rebuild after the price drops significantly.

[glorgau]

We were brought to this sad end by lies from the “authorities”.

[Brian Griffin]

“The blaze on the Hawaiian island was set deliberately, using futuristic energy weapons developed by the U.S. military.”

I suspect a match or cigarette was all it took.

[dragnet2]

I don’t believe a word of this article.

[Revel]

The MSM has been going all out lately to re-establish the idea that anyone who does not believe anything they say is conspiracy kook.

[Sicon]

Hey AP, why don’t you ask a different question:

What happens when the media becomes the propaganda arm of the government?

[Right Brother]

Perhaps many children are not dead, rather being trafficked.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

We’re already at that point, AP. Because of you and your fellow MSM outlets.

[Responsibility2nd]

I suspect a match or cigarette was all it took.

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Very ingenious match or cigarette. In that it knew to go around homes by Oprah and Bezos.

[Responsibility2nd]

I don’t believe a word of this article.

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Hah! They KNEW you’d say that.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Arrogant, condescending liars at AP.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Conspiracy theories do not make people *believe* less. In fact, they inspire people to *believe* more, and *trust* less.

Why should people *trust* those that are caught lying to them? Lying by commission and lying by omission. Lying in a shameless manner. Soliciting money and support for dubious reasons? Attacking those they disagree with, with little or no justification?

[FLT-bird]

What happens when the corporate media lies constantly year after year in support of the Leftist Democrat narrative of the day?

You get independent media and the corporate media steadily dies.

[rx]

"“This would not be so believable if it were not for the WEF having clearly outlined their intentions beforehand.”
Got any actual evidence of that? I mean besides someone going on social media and saying the WEF said so-and-so. Something official from the WEF outlining this as a goal of theirs?

How apropos that you thickly slather on your ignorance!

The brainwashed claimed for years (and some still do) that the great reset was a conspiracy until Klaus Schwab in 2020 boldly went public with his book, "COVID-19 The Great Reset." Let's not pretend this association struck him, hand-to-forehead--only in early 2020, as US deaths of those WITH COVID still numbered in the scores of thousands.

And what was Bill, Klaus and Albert Bourla's goal, even in 2017?

One can see how Schwab and the WEF weaponized the COVID vaxxes--absent scientific support--by making those who declined receiving the toxic injections out to be grandparent killers, labeling them superspreaders, leading the charge to see their 1st Amendment rights be taken away, fired from their jobs and ostracized wherever possible.

Those millions worldwide killed by evil, not-scientifically-justified hospital protocols are unavailable for comment.

[cgbg]

There was a meme on that in the last couple of days to the effect that a conspiracy theorist is someone who studies history seriously....

[Jan_Sobieski]

Conspiracy Theories are like the Moon Landings…

ALL FAKE!

[Nateman]

That link was Hilarious ! Thanks for posting that. I hang out on Gab where it is full of Jew haters who think Jews did 9-11. This joke should send them into the stratosphere:

Two 9/11 conspiracy theorists are in a plane when it crashes An instant later they find themselves in the afterlife, being judged by Almighty God Himself.

One falls to his knees, "I deplore you, all-powerful Creator of the universe! Before you judge me, I humbly beg you, reveal who was behind the September 11 attacks!"

God sighs. "Muslim extremists. Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden did it."

His friend leans down and whispers, "Damn, dude. This thing goes way higher up than we ever realized

[thesligoduffyflynns]

🙋👍💯

[Texas Fossil]

So very sorry. A year and still uncertainty.

May God Bless and comfort you and your family through all of this.

[webheart]

He should have said implore not deplore.