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US researchers have spent years studying how conspiracy theories spread. Now they are accused of helping to suppress conservative opinions.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

This is apparently being led by Gym Jordan, the man who suppressed information about a close, personal pedophile.

Anything that risks putting the conspiracy theory-wielding political hucksters under the microscope or into the spotlight is being labeled as a conspiracy itself. It's always projection with this crowd.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, like... another conspiracy theory?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Technically, suppressing wild conspiracy theories is suppressing conservative speech these days. Which is rather sad. Not that conservative speech was based in reality before this, but now it's just completely unhinged, anti-science clap-trap.

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