If you get your news only from mass media in Turkey, you'd often hear every problem the country has is due to a massive, global conspiracy.
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@paulvigna Glenn Beck is a lightweight amateur compared to this. Also, imagine that Beck is *the* nightly news and official pronouncements.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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During Gezi protests, conspiracy theories had extended to Lufthansa. Now it includes FBI & US prosecutors. Anything but citizen discontent.
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haha see. FBI informant had once contacted TR hackers—before Gezi & was banned from the internet during Gezi. Ta da! https://twitter.com/Filiz_Gunduz/status/720236460486627329 …
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Fact-free and ridiculous conspiratorial thinking is relatively common globally, and is favored tactic of many governments. That said+
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..I can no longer tell if the people promoting these theories believe them, or they like their cushy jobs, or if we're all in tin foil land?
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One country aside, the global rise of conspiracy theories as a model of propaganda suited to the social media age is a huge issue & dynamic.
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Hard to teach to assess conspiracy theories. There ARE global structural forces. Distinguishing that from tin foil theories isn't automatic.
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@samagreene If you had the platform and reach, and well-informed citizens able to do the work, and no repression on press. ::sigh::
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