Consumers freely mix reliable journalism with fact-free conspiracy claims.

Evidence

Enough incidents like this over the years have led me to conclude that the line between unsupported conspiracy claims and reliable investigative research is neither as firm nor as stable as many of us would like to believe. It’s clear that some people consume investigative journalism, fact-based analysis, and fact-free conspiracy interchangeably, drawing their own connections and mixing and matching between the three. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 738

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the rubric theme of how the right metabolizes real grievances and to earlier Doppelganger material on diagonalism; also echoes ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s theme of boundary permeability.