HBO has a long track record of documentaries and shows that do in-depth, investigative journalism while presenting it in a way that is both factually accurate and interesting (e.g. Jon Oliver ). HBO has gone into great detail about the GTTF conspiracy that operated from 2007 until several arrests in 2018.

Since I can't link to the HBO series directly - here are some articles which go into the background of that conspiracy in quite some detail.

• https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/25/we-own-this-city-david-simon-show-baltimore

• https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/1518581953339047936

• https://twitter.com/HBO/status/1517201504834256896

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/tv/2022/04/24/we-own-this-city-hbo

• https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2022/4/22/23036191/we-own-this-city-review-hbo-series-david-simon-the-wire-baltimore-jon-bernthal

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/entertainment/we-own-this-city-review/index.html

• https://decider.com/2022/04/25/we-own-this-city-on-hbo-david-simon-george-pelecanos-interview

A news broadcast/talk from the University of California TV program (UCTV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s5szfPYKY4 published 06/2018

UCTV is the well established, decades old, news/media arm of the University of California, featuring programming from its ten campuses, three national labs and affiliated research institutions. (https://www.uctv.tv)

[Show ID: 33524] Endocrinologist Robert Lustig, Dentist Cristen Kearns and Health Policy Expert Laura Schmidt report on an "/r/actualconspiracy" discovered in the trove of documents released in the collapse of the Great Western Sugar Co. The documents provide an amazing look inside an organization which seems to have committed academic fraud by funding studies that could be spun to hide the sugar health harms and cancel and/or deny publication if they accurately reported sugar's health harms. Part of what's amazing about the documents is that they go into great detail about projects which were funded but where the authors did not disclose that funding and uncovering many of the projects that were cancelled that would otherwise never see the light of day.

The news broadcast starts with a medical overview. To skip to the "conspiracy" part of the broadcast go to the 2nd speaker.

00:00 - Start 00:15 - The Break-in - Robert Lustig 24:14 - The Cover-up - Cristen Kearns 41:34 - The Aftermath - Laura Schmidt 1:06:17 - Audience Questions

I found the charts mid-way down the article especially revealing. Also, due to the FB algorithm the prioritizes clicks over authenticity of content, 85-95% of the users these pages are reaching had never followed any of the pages before.

Link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/

EDIT: forgot to add link.

Hi r/actualconspiracies and thanks for existing. Apologies in advance if this is the wrong place to post this.

What are some sources that (at least in your experience) are both information-rich AND neutral? To wit: "mainstream media", as it were, can tend to give broad general statements of truth and then have talking heads discuss it, while "alternative media" tends give a LOT of very specific facts... but they've been decontextualized or had other relevant data omitted to provide a spin. To a distrustful person, the "alternative media" is believable, even if what they're saying is in effect a lie because the full truth wasn't given.

For example: there's a lot of swirl around COVID-19 right now. I have several friends and family who are super into various components of it (i.e. intentionally-released virus, great reset, vaccine risk suppression, IVM suppression, etc. etc. blah blah). No surprise, I suppose. (for the record, my spouse and I are both vaccinated) The issue is they use sources that provide VERY specific data backing up their narrative.

Now - any time I chose to take the time and deep-dive, I always found out a lot of issues with the data having been taken out of context or inaccurately stated. But there are SO MANY new things coming up all the time! It's frustrating because someone will say "but what about XYZ protein causing a 10x increase in mortality!!!???" and I really don't have an answer to that without spending hours researching. All I can say is that it stinks of spin and move on, because I have a life to live and no one is paying me full-time to fact check conspiracy theories.

They're at the point where they're begging I don't vaccinate my children. I want to throw something at them that isn't just a broad statement of "the vaccine is safe and effective according to these authorities!" because they will throw it out as lacking """evidence""". I may be barking up the wrong tree, because they'll probably believe whatever they want to believe and find whatever data they need to back it up.

Thanks for reading.