Conspiracy theories are explanations for events or situations that assert the existence of a secret plot by powerful, sinister groups, often with negative or malevolent intentions. CTs can spice up a story and provide a motive, but if you read the mainstream media, they are the stuff of the confused and malcontents. Many examples are created on All Fool's Day and at the advent of a significant event, like landing on the moon.
Are all conspiracy theories just so much fiction? Let us consider fake news. President Trump spends considerable amounts of time castigating the main news sources in the US as spreading fake news, but in reality, much of what he says is terminologically inaccurate and has been proven so.
For example, Putin fought in the 2nd World War when he was in fact born in 1952. This is just one of many inaccurate statements made since January this year.
The point is that news sources are being manipulated. In the case of the US, currently, those manipulations are obvious and only the selectively blind refuse to see the truth. However, what about those half-truths that we are unclear about. Perhaps we haven't found out all of the facts about the actions of the government of the UK during the COVID-19 crisis. In time, the truth will come out if it needs to.
A sage piece of life advice I received from my father was to never believe everything you see and hear on the news. In my opinion, this wasn't my dad being a conspiracy theorist, but rather a man who was fully aware of the owners of newspapers and their influence over what is published. Once again, all you need to do is follow the US news as reported by Fox News and then by the other purveyors of news in the United States. The fact that they are different should ring alarm bells in the collective lugs of the populace.
As free-thinking and intelligent people, we then have a duty to research information to verify the truth of situations.
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