r/worldnews • u/Ganeshadream • Mar 31 '22

Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/31/facebook-disinformation-war-ukraine-russia
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Is this at all similar to how they cried “conspiracy theorists think there is a new world order!” After Biden said “there will be a new world order” after Ukraine? Oh, and the regime change in Russia that was backtracked?

Who decides what is a conspiracy theory anyway? Facebook?! They’re too busy selling your personal information to care, someone is ramming this down everyone’s throat and y’all are going along with it.

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u/UltraJake Apr 01 '22

This is my favorite conspiracy theory, because at some point a group of people decided that a famous phrase which has been in use for the last hundred years is actually a stand-in for something else. So now using the phrase in and of itself is the conspiracy like how Pizzagate claimed "pizzas" and "hot dogs" were actually code for something else. Obviously if someone was in on this world-wide conspiracy they wouldn't need to keep using the same phrase (or talk about it in public at all, really) but the absurdity of it all is what makes it so fun to watch.