• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    There absolutely are real conspiracies, USA mass surveillance, corporate control over media and censorship, social media amplifying autocratic propaganda while shadowbanning democratic content, big tech making propaganda easily accessible though text, image and video generation, fossil fuel oligarchs lobbying against change for the better, anything Epstein was doing, etc.

    No need to invent stuff.

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      22 hours ago

      USA mass surveillance isn’t a conspiracy theory because they’ve been pretty open about it.

      NSA warrantless surveillance was a huge topic in the 2000s and even involved a lot of litigation.

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            12 hours ago

            It’s not an anti journalism take. Journalism is valuable. I mean the american media landscape and the control mega corporations have over almost all of their popular media. Disney, WB and Netflix come to mind.

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        It used to be a conspiracy theory that the NSA and maybe other 3 letter agencies had closets at ISPs where they were slurping up all the traffic, later it turned out to be true around 2006 and they definitely weren’t open about it until whistleblowers started making noise.