@cheese_greater to Ask Lemmy • edit-23 days agoWhat beliefs or hypotheses do you hold strongly despite not feeling confident that you can necessarily prove or evince it?message-square145arrow-up1101arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up199arrow-down1message-squareWhat beliefs or hypotheses do you hold strongly despite not feeling confident that you can necessarily prove or evince it?@cheese_greater to Ask Lemmy • edit-23 days agomessage-square145file-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•2 days agoThe Piazzagate conspiracy theory was created by bored 4channers to see how ridiculous a story they can invent and how many people will just believe it. I don’t think anyone realised it would get as big as it did and then they did it again with Q.
minus-square@SkyrmirlinkEnglish1•5 hours agoWas it really a bunch of bored nerds, or did a PR agent make an anonymous post to start the rumor mill?
The Piazzagate conspiracy theory was created by bored 4channers to see how ridiculous a story they can invent and how many people will just believe it. I don’t think anyone realised it would get as big as it did and then they did it again with Q.
Was it really a bunch of bored nerds, or did a PR agent make an anonymous post to start the rumor mill?