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Andrew Wilson

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

When that news cycle hits, as long as they're pumping out the dopamine and the headlines and they're getting the views and the clicks, they will.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

And if people's interests start waning towards something else, they cover that.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

For the most part, are you pretty anti-conspiracy theorist?

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

Well, no.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

I mean, the government has tens of thousands of laws in the books about conspiracies because they seem to see them everywhere.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

So I would say that, no, there's definitely conspiracy theory that aren't theories.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

They're just conspiracies.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

And the term conspiracy theory was popularized by the Central Intelligence Agency to make people look bad because they would point out things which were objectively true.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

So there's thousands of conspiracies going on right this second.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

But

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

I guess when we make the referent of a conspiracy theory, there's still tons of people who try to connect dots which aren't there.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

And they try to kind of propagate what the left would refer to as misinformation or things like this for the purposes of using clicks.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

But that does not mean that conspiracies don't happen.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

MKUltra happened.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

That wasn't a conspiracy.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

Project Paperclip, which they would have considered a conspiracy then, it happened.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

Chemtrails.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

There's tons, tons and tons that we can go through.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

So no, I'm not anti-conspiracy theorist at all.

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Andrew Wilson: The Dark Side of TikTok No One Wants to Talk About | DSH #1648

I know that that's literally designed to demoralize people who are trying to do legitimate work, media work, connecting dots between people who are working in unison towards some goal.