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"Especially pernicious is the way that false conspiracies absolve their followers of engaging with the truth. …
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"Citizenship in a [time of widespread conspiracy theories] doesn’t require evaluating a statement of proposed fact for its truth-value, and then accepting it or rejecting it accordingly, …
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"… so much as it requires the complete and total rejection of all truth-value that comes from an enemy source, and the substitution of an alternative plot, narrated from elsewhere." — @Snowden theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/01/edward-snowdon-conspiracy-theories-belief-powerlessness