This is why people believe in so many conspiracy theories..

 

Conspiracy Theories and their origin

What I've learned by my own life experience, for instance when my daughter was just born and had colic and reflux issues for the first 2 years of her life is that during that stressful time when me and my ex-wife couldn't figure out why, I almost fell onto the anti-vaccination bandwagon because I was unable to find answers.  The anti-vaxxer movement was started by one doctor whose findings were later found to be inaccurate and misleading and also unable to be replicated.

 Andrew Wakefield, a former British doctor and researcher, is widely recognized as the individual who ignited the modern anti-vaccination movement with his discredited research published in 1998. The research, published in The Lancet, falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism in children. 

The moon landing conspiracy can be attributed to one man Bill Keysing and was even started in the mid 1970's.  It just did not gain any traction until the pandemic and other public persona's or figures propagating this.  

Just as Alex Jones and InfoWars spread so many lies and conspiracies but the one that finally took him off the social media and did him in financially was the denying of the Sandy Hook incident.  His followers bullied, harassed and caused all the family 's that lost children in that horrible tragedy for 6-8 months and when in court over this ordeal he said he was "just playing a persona" and also acted like a child in court.  This ended up costing him 1.5 billion dollars in a settlement this is why you don't see him anymore spreading his misinformation.  

Lets do a search of how many falsehood's our current president made during his last term as president -

False Statements by POTUS Twitter Account (2016–2020)

Key Finding

Fact-checking organizations estimate that Donald Trump, as President (2016–2020), made 30,573 false or misleading statements across all public forums during his presidency—many of these were issued via Twitter, his most frequent communication platform as POTUS12. This tally comes from comprehensive tracking by major outlets including The Washington Post's Fact Checker, which attempted to document every false or misleading claim made by Trump during his tenure.

Breakdown & Context

·         Platform Usage: Trump tweeted approximately 57,000 times over nearly twelve years, with a high frequency during his presidency as the primary means of public communication3.

·         Fact-Checking Process: Fact-checkers, chiefly at The Washington Post, aimed to include all platforms (tweets, speeches, interviews), but Twitter statements often comprised a significant portion due to volume and public reach12.

·         Degree of Falsity: According to PolitiFact’s analysis of 1,000 fact-checked Trump statements (including tweets), about 76% of rated claims were “Mostly False,” “False,” or “Pants on Fire”2.

·         Repeat Offenses: Many false or misleading claims were repeated frequently, meaning the total count includes numerous instances of the same statement.

Direct Twitter Estimates

While no major fact-checking organization provides a final, isolated count of just Trump’s false Twitter statements separate from other outlets, the 30,573 figure covers all public statements, and Twitter was widely noted as his primary distribution method for unfiltered statements. During intense news cycles (2018, 2020), the average monthly and daily number of false or misleading claims—many from Twitter—often spiked sharply41.

·         Major fact-checkers (Washington Post, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org) confirm that Twitter was central to Trump’s dissemination of false or misleading claims during his presidency, but do not provide an exclusive figure for Twitter.

·         Academic analysis confirms “significant evidence of an intent to deceive” in many presidential tweets4.

In conclusion:          

·         30,573 is the most reliable estimate of the total false or misleading statements made by Donald Trump as POTUS, and Twitter was the main platform for many of these, but no fully isolated Twitter-specific tally exists

Those are just from the official President of the United States account during that time.

These can be directly attributed to our president himself - 

1. 

·         2020 Election Was Stolen (“The Big Lie”)
Claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged through widespread fraud, including false assertions about Dominion voting machines, ballot harvesting, and mail-in ballots1234.

·         Millions of Illegal Votes in 2016
Claimed he lost the popular vote only because “millions” of undocumented immigrants voted illegally1.

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Promoted and supported the movement seeking to overturn the 2020 election results52.

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Alleged Italian satellites were used to change Trump votes to Biden5.

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Spread misinformation about the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) as a source of election fraud2.

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Promoted the false theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and was, therefore, an illegitimate president5678.

3. 

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Amplified and openly embraced QAnon rhetoric and symbols, including the belief in a secret cabal of elites and coming mass arrests593.

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Asserted the existence of a shadowy “deep state” working to undermine his administration and American democracy5.

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Claimed multiple times that vaccines are linked to autism, contradicting scientific consensus5.

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Suggested that COVID-19 death statistics were deliberately inflated5.

·         Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates Profited from COVID Vaccines
Alleged collusion and profiteering by public health officials and philanthropists5.

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Claimed that allegations of Russian election interference and the ensuing investigations were a “hoax” and part of a broader plot against him5.

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Alleged without evidence that Obama and others spied on his campaign5.

·         Ukrainian Election Interference
Blamed Ukraine, rather than Russia, for interference in the 2016 election5.

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Echoed the claim that there is a deliberate plan to replace white American voters with immigrants for political gain510.

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Falsely claimed that he witnessed “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 attacks5.

·         Mexican Immigrants as Criminals
Claimed that the Mexican government was sending criminals across the border5.

·         Syrian Refugees as ISIS Members
Alleged that Syrian refugees admitted to the U.S. included ISIS terrorists5.

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Suggested that Senator Ted Cruz’s father was linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK’s assassin5.

·         “Clinton Body Count” & Epstein Theories
Pushed the idea that the Clintons were involved in multiple suspicious deaths, including Jeffrey Epstein’s511.

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Hinted that the late Supreme Court Justice’s death may have involved foul play5.

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Claimed climate change was invented by the Chinese to harm U.S. manufacturing5.

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Falsely claimed linkage between wind turbines and cancer5.

After he took office in 2016, He had Mike Pence and a committee look into voting fraud and found so little that they never even mentioned it.

I have found that when people are Vulnerable as they were during the pandemic, or due to other traumatic life experiences, this made people more susceptible to believing what was spread by social media outlets like YouTube, Facebook (Cambridge Analytica Scandal) and Twitter.  There's even a good Ted talk to explain this as well. 

So in summary stay skeptical of anything you read or hear and do your due dilligence and get your facts from many credible sources before spreading anything otherwise our democracy will stay divided and fall, but united we should stand together against MISINFORMATION.