THE CONSPIRASPHERE
TRUTH BOFFINS
The news that AI boffififins have created an algorithm that can tell the difference between conspiracy theories and real conspiracies was greeted with a peal of hollow laughter in this particular garret of Fortean Towers. Leaving aside the painfully obvious observation that many conspiracy theories are, in fact, theories about real conspiracies – and thus there is no hard line between the two categories – one has to ask what would motivate a team of pointy-heads to tilt at this particular windmill.
The answer, it transpires, is that tired old academic
