The Bifurcated News Environment

The way we see conspiracy theories moving these days is they'll start at this sort of, you know, message board and social media platform level with a sort of army of individuals. It will spread from there through a network of hyper partisan news sites like Gateway Fundit that are not interested in the basic rules of journalism but want to make money off of advertising. From there, you can see them sort of get woven into the broader debate. You know, the reality is that the right wing media figures at the sort of higher level, their Fox News is, aren't interested in batting down those sorts of conspiracies. They're either ignoring it all together or providing a sort of wink and a