Conspiracy theories explode online after massive Facebook outage
A satire account on Twitter seemingly convinced thousands that the problem at Facebook had been caused by a Chinese hacker. Despite the account later reiterating that it posted satire, countless users continued spreading the false claim.
Unsurprisingly, some followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory believed that the outage was part of the “10 Days of Darkness,” a mythical event that is supposed to coincide with the return of former President Donald Trump.
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A satire account on Twitter seemingly convinced thousands that the problem at Facebook had been caused by a Chinese hacker. Despite the account later reiterating that it posted satire, countless users continued spreading the false claim.
Unsurprisingly, some followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory believed that the outage was part of the “10 Days of Darkness,” a mythical event that is supposed to coincide with the return of former President Donald Trump.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/conspirac...ok-outage/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
