cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoWhat beliefs or hypotheses do you hold strongly despite not feeling confident that you can necessarily prove or evince it?message-squaremessage-square143fedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1100arrow-down1message-squareWhat beliefs or hypotheses do you hold strongly despite not feeling confident that you can necessarily prove or evince it?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agomessage-square143fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDenjin@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months 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-squareSkyrmir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months 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?