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drray23

(8,803 posts) Fri Apr 3, 2026, 01:24 PM Apr 3

social media made the newer generation believers of conspiracy theory and deniers of science [View all]

I can not believe how many people are convinced that we never went to the moon in 1969. All over social media, threads discussing the Artemis mission are infected with people arguing that it is all a scam and they are in a movie studio, we never went to the moon, etc..

We also have the issue with even more worrisome things. A growing number of people do not believe the holocaust happened.

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social media made the newer generation believers of conspiracy theory and deniers of science [View all] drray23 Apr 3 OP

How is it not believable? And it's not stuck to the newer generation. Remember... Scott Alan Swaggerty Apr 3 #1

I think paranoia seeds were sown way back in the 1990s, pre OJ Chase bucolic_frolic Apr 3 #2

Could anyone really not see that this would happen? NewHendoLib Apr 3 #3

Freedom of Speech OC375 Apr 3 #4

If true, what's the explanation for the older generation doing so? Because they RockRaven Apr 3 #5

It gives the biggest idiots the biggest megaphone. Stupid people tend to be loud. n/t flvegan Apr 3 #6

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