Why you shouldn't believe in any #ConspiracyTheories examples:

-- There was a #ConspiracyTheory in the 1970s and 1980s that presenters of popular children's TV shows were secretly child abusers. This is obviously crazy!
There was a #ConspiracyTheory that the CIA set up a fake vaccination program in Pakistan a few years ago in order to get hold of the DNA of a target of an assassination to confirm his identity before dropping a bomb.
Was the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic all part of a conspiracy by the US Navy to recover the wrecks of two US nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed submarines? That's crazy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck_of_the_Titanic#Discovery
Real conspiracies do, in fact, exist.
Another conspiracy theory is the Western Intelligence agencies carry out "False Flag" operations and blame them on adversaries, that they use military-grade hacking tools to ruin people's reputations, post "fake victim" stories, etc. How paranoid! https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations

One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics...

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
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