"THE CONVERSATION" is a left-wing, pro-Jewish opinion-piece website cloaked in academia. This 'opinion writer' has many such postings that reveal her funders who clearly direct and pay her to quash dissenting voices. Here are a few of her other recent 'Commentaries':

• Some online conspiracy-spreaders don’t even believe the lies they’re spewing
• 10 Ways to Spot Online Misinformation
• 7 Ways to avoid becoming a Misinformation Superspreader
• Disinformation tactics used against you, as explained by a social psychologist
• Learn to recognize hallmarks of online disinformation...
• 5 Types of Threat - how those who want to divide us, use language to stoke violence
• Disinformation is rampant on social media - a social psychologist explains the tactics used against you

You can't "tear it apart" with facts. Because everything he states is opinion and manipulation. Consider the following nonsense:

Confirmed conspiracies typically involve small, isolated groups, like the top echelon of a company or a single terrorist cell. Even the alliance among tobacco companies to hide their products’ danger was confined to those at the top, who made decisions and enlisted paid scientists and ad agencies to spread their messages.

False conspiracies tend to implicate wide swaths of people, such as world leaders, mainstream media outlets, the global scientific community, the Hollywood entertainment industry and interconnected government agencies.

Note how he makes a blanket statement which is just a statistical prediction, and then uses it to discount the very real conspiracy of the globalist criminal syndicate. Yet I'm sure if you ask him if he believes that a mafia like group could control municipalities in the early 20th century, he'd agree. And then go right on to vehemently deny that those same control mechanisms could be used on a global scale.

You can't tear apart narratives that are designed to sound real to those only too willing to let someone else do their thinking and believe in psy-ence.

Don't waste your time with this one. This is what you get from the intellectual elite who are unwilling to consider their fundamental biases. He claims that it is "conspiracy theorists" who don't apply the scientific method, but then he does exactly the same thing by not applying the scientific method to the detritus that spews from his own mouth.

And consensus is not science

Conspiracy theory beliefs are not welcome here either, so not a lot of point...

The woman is a paid propagandist. Below is an excerpt from her bio:

My program of research is broad. I take a theory-grounded, multi-method, approach to tackling social issues. I have funding from the Department of Defense, the Gates Foundation, and the Department of Corrections.

Much of my data collection is in the field. I work on: Understanding the hazards of the information highway, including dis/misinformation, conspiracy theories, & dangerous speech and their links to extremism. Investigating means to improve equity and access in educational, policy, and correctional settings. Examining challenges within intergroup and interpersonal relations, broadly construed.

It is easy: democrat / DS conspiracy theories are fake news. MAGA conspiracy theories are true. The track record is perfect. 😎

Trash. ..