Anonymous ID: 6de2b2 June 27, 2018, 6:36 p.m. No.1933873   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4166

Before a storm, the calm; after the storm, a hail of conspiracy theories. The urge to seek truth among unconnected dots is nothing new, but social media has supercharged that urge, ratcheting up the speed and spread of the resulting theories. As soon as a scrap of news hits Twitter, thousands upon thousands of users across multiple platforms swarm to synthesize it with other, unrelated scraps—even if fusing them into a coherent narrative requires logical backflips and manufacturing some data points of their own. And once the conspiracy has been constructed, no amount of well-intentioned debunkings can shake these truthers’ faith.

 

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