"By promoting conspiracy theories, narcissistic leaders can cause significant societal harm—be it discouraging political engagement, encouraging unhealthy beliefs and behaviors (e.g., the anti-vaccination movement), discrimination, or acts of violence."

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[–]Insider 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

They silence conspiracies because there is a conspiracy.

Notice flat earth and moon hoax conspiracies aren't really silenced. COVID-19, geopolitical, government pedo conspiracies can get you banned and censored if you provide enough proof.

[–]RedEyedWarriorIndependent 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

That's right. I often judge whether or not a conspiracy theory is true based on how the establishment reacts to it.

[–]Insider 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Gotta be careful with that strategy, because they set up agents in conspiracy circles as well. The military wrote a book on it, using partial truths to gain rapport and trust for psychological and information warfare.

Alex Jones and Joe Rogan, for instance, are government agents. This is a pretty good breakdown of those two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PZnChP8W3I

Tucker Carlson's also CIA (3 main indicators: participating in a CIA op in Nicaragua, participating in the CIA's media assassination of Gary Webb, his father Dick Carlson worked for the CIA front Voice of America).

A lot of publicized trials are also likely farces (Kyle Rittenhouse, Depp/Heard, Alex Jones).