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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It’s also making the mistake of treating “conspiracy theorists” as a monolith, which they’re not.

It pretty much was. The qanon nonsense functioned as an umbrella conspiracy theory, which pretty much coopted all other conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    If you can see what a cult/psyop can do to influence people's beliefs (Q), certainly you can then see that a lot of conspiracy spaces are manipulated by bots and other people in bad faith doing the same thing.

    Not every conspiracy theorist forms beliefs - they could merely be hypothesizing/speculating. Not every conspiracy theorist believes in everything posted in these spaces, and not every conspiracy theorist follows Q and other cults like it.

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