To all fans of political conspiracy theories and those following the situation in the US, I highly recommend the English-language podcast series BBC The Coming Storm (link), which returns for its third season on September 11, 2024. In the first episode, Gabriel Gatehouse delves deeper into the world of American conspiracy culture. On the eve of the US presidential elections, Gatehouse explores how millions of Americans came to believe that their democracy has been taken over by a mysterious elite known as the Deep State.

The dominance of Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, and Facebook contributes to the rise of conspiracy theories. Therefore, today’s article, though not strictly about conspiracy theories, is an essential element of the ongoing discussions at dadalo.pl. On July 3, 2024, the Polish branch of Google responded in a letter to the creators’ protests concerning the Copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market and legislative amendments. This fragment complements an article I will publish regarding hypocrisy.

Podcast Interview with Kwaśniewski In today’s fragment, a short topic. I was listening to a podcast on Spotify: Aleksander Kwaśniewski: everyone is accusing everyone of being an agent where the former president stated that the current witch hunt and mass accusations of people being Russian agents are part of political warfare, and one cannot say that Law and Justice is pro-Russian or, as I understood, controlled by Russia. Aleksander Kwaśniewski: We’ll see what the outcome will be.

I haven’t written about conspiracy theories related to planned obsolescence in products before. Today’s example is worth examining to show that some theories, when falsifiable (verifiable), can turn out to be true. In such cases, they stop being conspiracy theories and become simple facts. This is what happened with the dishonest practices and collusion of appliance manufacturers. What is Planned Obsolescence? Planned obsolescence is a strategy used by manufacturers to design products in such a way that they have limited durability or become obsolete after a certain period.

Introduction to Conspiracy Fragments In today’s inaugural fragment, we will tackle information that electrified internet users in the second week of May. A solar storm and the solar wind reaching Earth were said to be the cause of increased aurora borealis activity. According to scientists, this could be observed in Poland and many other places around the world. Unfortunately, cloudy skies thwarted our observation plans. Theory in Social Media Conspiracy theories quickly started to appear on social networks, questioning whether the solar storm generated such a phenomenon.