After playing the game and reading the Bad News Information Sheet I learned a lot about fake news. While I was playing the game, I realized that each one of my posts was fake news. Even though all the posts were fake, many people believed it was read and also posted about the topic causing it to start spreading. The game showed me that literally anyone who wants to start and spread fake news can. Not only did other people…
1 The seven traits of conspiratorial thinking are contradictory, overriding suspicion, nefarious intent,something must be wrong, persecuted victim, immune to evidence,and re-interpreting randomness. Contradictory- this is when a conspiracy theorist believes in multiple ideas about the conspiracy. The examples used was believing the death of Princess Diana was murdered and also believing that she may have faked her own death. They contradict each other. Overriding suspicion- A conspiracy theorist will stop themself from believing something if they are suspicious it…
1 Marcel Fontaine, who is twenty five years old, became accused of being the shooter at a Florida high school shooting. Fontaine lives in Massachusetts, a four hour flight from Florida, and was unaware of the shooting until a friend sent them a text, only a little while after they had woken up, containing a picture of Fontain that implied they were the shooter. This picture was taken off of Fonatine’s instagram and posted to 4chan. Fontain is on the…
Autumn Flagg Professor Drown ENG 123 April 4, 2020 Washington DC is the home of a pizza and ping pong joint called Comet Ping Pong. This location was the center of a conspiracy theory called Pizzagate. Pizzagate is a conspiracy theory that the restaurant was the center of a child sex trafficing ring. People who believed in Pizzagate believed that there was a basement and underground tunnels located under the resturaunt that were used for this sex trafficing ring that…
1 “The nocturnal ritual fantasy” is a conspiracy that conspiratorial groups secretly get together to plan and overthrow society. They “supposedly ritually abuse, murder abd consume innocent children” (Barbezat 1). When people believe in this is “helped to justify deadly violence against these marginalized groups, and, infact, played an important role in establishing their very marginality” (Barbezat 2) 2 The Comet Ping Pong restaurant may have made a likely target of a conspiracy theory for multiple reasons. First, the restaurant’s…
