Conspiracy Theorists Rule The Internet On 7/7

On the anniversary of the 7/7 terror attacks in London that killed 52 people and injured many more, conspiracy theorists dominate video coverage of these events. Case in point: in a YouTube search of "7/7 London", 19 of the 24 videos featured on the first page of search results were posted by conspiracists accusing the British government or other nefarious states (anyone but the home-grown jihadist murderers captured on CCTV cameras) of being behind the "false flag" attacks.

How will historians look back on the years when a global network of religious fanatics began ratcheting up their indiscriminate slaughter of innocents living in the West? As memory recedes, the more lazy among them will increasingly rely on the plentiful video resources made ubiquitous and accessible over the Internet.

Conspiracy theories may become more mainstream only because these obsessive kooks seem to working a lot harder than the rest of us to get their own twisted narrative out.

It is no longer sufficient to fight falsehood with fact. Our side must redouble our efforts to combat this rapidly-consolidating narrative of lunatics posing as experts. As the famous line from the conspiracy-minded X-Files television series put it, "The Truth Is Out There". Let's make sure people know about it.

Jonathon Narvey is the Editor of The Propagandist