Reddit's "conspiracy" sub became an "acceptable alt-speak that we kind of put up with" with a huge dose of "We need to change the narrative on the front page of the sub - stat!"
A conspiracy site that MUTES CONSPIRACIES - that's a fucking huge massive red flag.
I suggest all conspiracy posts should be automatically BELEIVED by members and then whatever evidence can be found should be posted.
Real shit is likely going to have a lot of back-up information, lots of cross-linked facts and so on.
A fake "tin foil hat" conspiracy (a proper bullshit one) - won't have fuck all supporting info...
ANYONE who posts "This conspiracy is bullshit because this page here says so...." is silencing the investigation, and is how the public think en-masse... and how people stay tricked.
Reddit conspiracy was full of that shit. Legit conspiracies were getting sidelined, and silenced by a massive SPAMMING of "this site here says it's fake!"
...... but a bit of brain-work for people is needed, if "JaneDoe killed X with a knife" is the conspiracy, and there's several photos of JaneDoe at some night out where the date and time's on a clock in the image, or something like that - that's relevant. Just not sites that hand-wave shit away with vague denials.
Please!
Let the conspiracies flourish!
Reddit's "conspiracy" sub became an "acceptable alt-speak that we kind of put up with" with a huge dose of "We need to change the narrative on the front page of the sub - stat!"
A conspiracy site that MUTES CONSPIRACIES - that's a fucking huge massive red flag.
I suggest all conspiracy posts should be automatically BELEIVED by members and then whatever evidence can be found should be posted.
Real shit is likely going to have a lot of back-up information, lots of cross-linked facts and so on.
A fake "tin foil hat" conspiracy (a proper bullshit one) - won't have fuck all supporting info...
ANYONE who posts "This conspiracy is bullshit because this page here says so...." is silencing the investigation, and is how the public think en-masse... and how people stay tricked.
Reddit conspiracy was full of that shit. Legit conspiracies were getting sidelined, and silenced by a massive SPAMMING of "this site here says it's fake!"
...... but a bit of brain-work for people is needed, if "JaneDoe killed X with a knife" is the conspiracy, and there's several photos of JaneDoe at some night out where the date and time's on a clock in the image, or something like that - that's relevant. Just not sites that hand-wave shit away with vague denials.