New study exposes how conspiracy theories go mainstream across Europe

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I just checked around and found the original press-release via King’s College here.
This article is more elaborate, and it seems a huge massive project by Redact

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

I feel like immediately discrediting conspiracy theories loses weight every time they’re proven correct and nobody is held accountable for it.

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It seems like there’s a lot of truth in many conspiracies and that bullshit gets added to the stories to make them conspiracy. …as a way to discredit them.

I think people are extremely naive to the point they basically bought into being slaves and are proud about it.

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Conspiracy being a real phenomenon and the manufacture and spread of conspiracy theories to help one particular narrative are two separate concepts.

MKUltra and Illuminati running the world/flat earth/young earth/great replacement/etc are two different types of things. You have to ask who benefits from spreading the idea around. Flat/young earth is a particularly easy example, certain religious movements benefit from convincing people those are valid ideas.

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