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Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: ‘What happens when no one believes anything anymore?’
AP ^ | 01/31/24 | DAVID KLEPPER

Posted on 02/01/2024 12:30:35 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; conspiracytheories; dew; media
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To: mcenedo

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


21 posted on 02/01/2024 1:08:45 PM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: mcenedo

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


22 posted on 02/01/2024 1:10:08 PM PST by glorgau
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To: mcenedo

“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.


23 posted on 02/01/2024 1:15:41 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: mcenedo

I don’t believe a word of this article.


24 posted on 02/01/2024 1:27:53 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: mcenedo

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.


25 posted on 02/01/2024 1:28:01 PM PST by Revel
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To: mcenedo
Hey AP, why don’t you ask a different question:

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

26 posted on 02/01/2024 1:28:22 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: Texas Fossil

Perhaps many children are not dead, rather being trafficked.


27 posted on 02/01/2024 1:29:32 PM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: mcenedo

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


28 posted on 02/01/2024 1:31:37 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Brian Griffin

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.


29 posted on 02/01/2024 1:32:33 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: dragnet2

I don’t believe a word of this article.

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Hah! They KNEW you’d say that.


30 posted on 02/01/2024 1:33:20 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: mcenedo

Arrogant, condescending liars at AP.


31 posted on 02/01/2024 1:37:57 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: mcenedo

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?


32 posted on 02/01/2024 1:46:49 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: mcenedo

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.


33 posted on 02/01/2024 1:49:03 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Roadrunner383
"“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.

34 posted on 02/01/2024 1:56:50 PM PST by rx
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To: Revel

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....


35 posted on 02/01/2024 1:59:05 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: mcenedo
Conspiracy Theories are like the Moon Landings…

ALL FAKE!
36 posted on 02/01/2024 2:00:19 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: outofsalt
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

37 posted on 02/01/2024 2:01:19 PM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: rx

🙋👍💯


38 posted on 02/01/2024 2:22:42 PM PST by thesligoduffyflynns (WHEN 💎GOING THROUGH KEEP GOING💎 IF IT DOESNT KiILL YOU IT will MAKE YOU STRONGER💎)
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To: Right Brother

So very sorry. A year and still uncertainty.

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


39 posted on 02/01/2024 2:25:58 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Nateman

He should have said implore not deplore.


40 posted on 02/01/2024 2:26:43 PM PST by webheart
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