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Is Social Media the Most Responsible for This?
The CIA created the term conspiracy theory to sort of dismiss things that might have been legitimate. I think we've seen a rise of this thinking in the last two to three years than we've ever seen in modern, you know, in the last 30 years," he says. The best predictor of whether you'll believe in a new conspiracy theory is whether you already believe in one,. So if you daisy chain these facts together, they add up to a world where it makes sense that we're all more paranoid.
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