"Until very recently, if every professional news organization in the nation examined a charge and found it baseless, it was—for all intents and purposes—dropped. Today, the growth of the Internet has drained the noun 'news' of its former authority. If you don't like the facts presented on the sites of established news organizations, you simply keep clicking until you find one whose 'facts' accord with your beliefs."
Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times explains why conspiracist thinking persists.
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