• youmaynotknow@lemmy.zip
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      6 hours ago

      That may very well be the case. Now, is it really a conspiracy when everything points to it, or is it a justified suspicion?

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        Conspiracies exist. Many are well documented, or at least documented enough to call out specific people for specific behavior.

        A conspiracy mindset ignores those, and instead suspects conspiracy everywhere else, and usually without substantial evidence. Easy instances are detectable when the sentence goes they do something to harm us in a vaguely related way.

        The latter is all over YouTube, and what influencers make money with. The former is sometimes reposted on YouTube after some journalists publish it in a serious media outlet.