The dead internet conspiracy theory is spreading online, as many feel it explains the current structure of social media. In 2021, a user named IllumiPirate posted a theory on the Agora Road’s Macintosh Café discussion forum claiming that since 2016,…

A theoretical discussion about NATO contingency planning has erupted into a nationwide political storm in Romania, after comments by Defense Minister Radu Miruță on possible troop deployment scenarios to Greenland were distorted, amplified online, and weaponized by political actors and…