R/Conspiracy



r/conspiracy is the conspiracy theory subreddit on Reddit and the front page of paranoia on the Internet. The subreddit made Hitler Did Nothing Wrong their official documentary long before Trump ever had a chance at being president. Theories discussed here run the gamut from 9/11 to chemtrails to lizard people. Watching the history of a long-time user can sometimes be an insightful observation of how someone can go from "9/11 is an inside Job" to "Everything is wrong and the world is a simulation" in the span of a year. As of February 2023 it has 1.9 million members.

Anti-semitism
A contributor believes that George Soros funded Nazis to confiscate the properties of Jews, even though he was 15 when WW2 ended. The subreddit believes that it is bad that there is a law against anti-semitism. Another contributor cited an article that goes on to say that hate speech laws violate the First Amendment, which they do. Another contributor even posted that Trump is a Rothschild asset and Breitbart is founded by Jews. Another contributor believes that the Rothschild family is five times richer than world’s 8 richest billionaires. Another contributor believes that 'The Jews' killed JFK. One poster claimed that George Soros owns 250 media outlets: The New York Times, ''The Washington Post, the Associated Press, CNN and ABC, and again claiming that he confiscated the properties of Jews under Nazi occupation.

Covid-19
According to R/Conspiracy, YouTube removed the dislike button because people were disliking the COVID-19 vaccine videos. However the real reason that YouTube removed it was to "protect the creator's mental health". One contributor believes that India ended the Delta variant in their country due to Indians taking ivermectin and that Dr. Fauci could have prevented 500k deaths if he encouraged people to take ivermectin. Another poster believes that serious Covid-19 cases can be prevented by taking vitamin D. Another poster believes that Pfizer is mutating Covid-19 viruses.

Covid-19 vaccine
Most respondents believes that Covid-19 is a depopulation scheme, with most people answering the question in post saying that it makes people sterile. Another poster believes that the reason why people are becoming sicker is not because they have a cold or anything else but that people's immune systems have been weakened by the vaccine. Another poster thinks that the vaccine is free because the government wants to harm people, including a screenshot from noted antivaxxer Candace Owens. Another poster believes that the Covid-19 vaccine killed a 17-year old boy. Another poster thinks that over 23,000 kids were killed by the Covid-19 vaccine in Europe, citing an article from the The Exposé, a conspiracy theory website.

Extraterrestrials
The existence of extraterrestrials on Earth is one of the more harmless conspiracy theories that this subreddit pushes (doubtless fueled by credulous and bored people binge-watching Ancient Aliens). One contributor believes that the real reason the US invaded Iraq was not because of WMDs or even oil but ancient alien stargate portal in Iraq. Another contributor also claimed that aliens are actually demons that are working with world leaders against god. Another poster believes that NASA and the government know that aliens exist, the poster proceeds to use a GIF as evidence. Another poster believes that  was an occult leader who summoned portals to aliens.

Russian-Ukraine war
One contributor believes Putin's propaganda that Russia is trying to denazify Ukraine and destroy biolabs in Ukraine. Another contributor thinks that the alleged biolabs are linked to Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, which links to a post on Twitter claiming that the Russian Ministry of Defense recognized the US response to the biolabs. Another contributor believes that Volodymyr Zelenskyy was installed by the CIA, that Zelenskyy banned opposition media, and that Joe Biden allegedly gave him tanks for his birthday. Another contributor believes that Ukraine is CIA/Soros puppet state and that Ukrainian Nazis are killing eastern Ukrainians.

Microchips
They cite an article from the British tabloid The Sun that claims an AIDS or swine flu vaccine will microchip people. They also claim the same article was copied directly from the the conspiracy book Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper. Another contributor, the appropriately named "TheCrazyAcademic", again cited The Sun article but this time associating the alleged plans with the George H. W. Bush administration. . One r/conspiracy user says that the Pfizer CEO confirmed that he is developing 5G microchip technology to kill 5 billion people provides no citation, not even from a crank site. Another contributor believes that in 1991 a former intelligence officer revealed that the government would inject people with microchips, and the contributor believes that the man was killed, citing the conspiracy theory site "Down the Chupacabra Hole". Another contributor thinks that the World Economic Forum is trying to have children injected with microchips.

Jesuits
One contributor believes that the CIA and KGB are both been run by Jesuits and that the millions of deaths under communist regimes were caused by Jesuits. citing Saidit a far-right version of Reddit, the same poster believes that 90% of media is controlled by Jesuits Another contributor thinks that World War I was a plot by Zionists and Jesuits to destroy Protestant Christianity.

5G
One contributor believes that 5G is bad for health because it causes oxygen to be more reactive, thus weakening the immune system. Another contributor believes that 5G towers have killed hundreds of bees, citing a UK tabloid article. Another contributor posted a screen shot of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. saying that 5G can cause cancer and Alzheimer's diesease. Another contributor believes that Switzerland banned 5G because it was bad for the nervous system. Another contributor believes that some doctors and scientists are going to halt the research of 5G because increased exposure to 5G is bad for humans and the environment.

QAnon
One poster thinks that QAnon is a psyosp intended to associate critical thinkers with insane conservatives. Another poster complained that Twitter banned QAnon accounts but not BLM or Antifa accounts. Another poster thinks that it is terrorism to call conspiracy theorists like QAnon a domestic terror threat because the conspiracy theorists are exposing the truth.

2020 U.S. presidential election
One contributor believes that Time magazine has admitted that 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen by a secret cabal of the elite. They then link to a tweet by notorious election denier Candace Owens Another contributor believes that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has meddled in the 2020 U.S. election. The post links to an article in NewsTarget (which became the crank website NaturalNews. Another contributor believes the 2000 Mules film by Dinesh D'Souza, which claimed that the election was stolen based on the director's fabrications. The 2000 Mules website claims that 77% percent of voters who watched the movie now think that the election was stolen. Another contributor believes that 300,000 Biden votes in Michigan and Wisconsin were added by outside sources.

Pissed at us
A poster noticed that we had a section about them on our Reddit page. Sooner or later, they'll realize that we have a page about them.