AP Claims World Economic Forum is Very Good, Anyone Who Questions Them a Conspiracy Theorist

You’d have to be completely off your rocker to think that there is something wrong with the most powerful people in the world meeting together to plan the global future without the consent of the global population.

It’s really just kooky to think that the richest people are anything other than the most morally righteous and best fit for controlling everyone.

AP:

When some of the world’s wealthiest and most influential figures gathered at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting last year, sessions on climate change drew high-level discussions on topics such as carbon financing and sustainable food systems.

But an entirely different narrative played out on the internet, where social media users claimed leaders wanted to force the population to eat insects instead of meat in the name of saving the environment.

They literally say that.

It is just pathological the way the media now calls things you can get from a 2 second internet search “conspiracy theories.”

The annual event in the Swiss ski resort town of Davos, which opens Monday, has increasingly become a target of bizarre claims from a growing chorus of commentators who believe the forum involves a group of elites manipulating global events for their own benefit. Experts say what was once a conspiracy theory found in the internet’s underbelly has now hit the mainstream.

This isn’t a conspiracy that is playing out on the extreme fringes,” said Alex Friedfeld, a researcher with the Anti-Defamation League who studies anti-government extremism. “We’re seeing it on mainstream social media platforms being shared by regular Americans. We were seeing it being spread by mainstream media figures right on their prime time news, on their nightly networks.”

Why does the ADL consult the media on this? I thought they just existed to defend rapist-murderer pencil factory owners?

Is the WEF Jewish? Surely that’s what getting the ADL involved implies.

The meeting draws heads of state, business executives, cultural trendsetters and representatives from international organizations to the luxe mountain town. Though it’s always unclear how much concrete action will emerge, the meeting is slated to take on pressing global issues from climate change and economic uncertainty to geopolitical instability and public health.

Hundreds of public sessions are planned, but the four-day conference is also known for secretive backroom meetings and deal-making by business leaders. This gap between what’s shown to the public and what happens behind closed doors helps make that makes the meeting a flashpoint for misinformation.

Haha.

Why are they having secret meetings if they’re all very open and honest people, I wonder???

Does that makes sense???

“When we have very high levels of ambiguity, it’s very easy to fill in narratives,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who is the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and also studies misinformation.

Oh, another Jewish group???

This article is about people who believe in “conspiracy theories,” but they do not interview any of them.

They could have called Elon Musk, who according to them is a kook theorist for questioning the WEF.

Theories about influential global leaders are not new, she said, but scrutiny of the forum and its chairman, Klaus Schwab, intensified in 2020 in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. That year, the theme of the annual meeting was “The Great Reset.” The initiative envisioned sweeping changes to how societies and economies would work to recover from the pandemic and build a more sustainable future.

So is it a theory, or are they implementing sweeping changes?

How can it be both a kook theory and also what is literally happening?

Now, in increasingly mainstream corners of the internet and on conservative talk shows, “The Great Reset” has become shorthand for what skeptics say is a reorganization of society, using global uncertainty as a guise to take away rights. Believers argue that measures including pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates are tools to consolidate power and undercut individual sovereignty.

Meanwhile, the popular claim that the forum wants people to replace meat with bugs is a distorted reference to an article once published on the organization’s website.

It’s not one article.

It’s also not really the main issue here. The main issue is that a tiny body of unelected shadowy figures are setting global policy at all. Whether or not the policy involves eating bugs is secondary.

In another instance, a widely shared post claimed without evidence that the forum had “appointed” U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House before the actual vote had taken place.

No one said they “appointed” him, that’s a total lie. What they said is that he’s a member, which is a fact.

I pity whoever has to write these shill articles. They must be on the edge of sanity.

The concern, Friedfeld says, is that posts like these could introduce people to more fringe and dangerous conspiracy theories or even translate into real-world violence. Yann Zopf, head of media for the forum, says the organization has increased its monitoring of this kind of online activity and carefully watches for direct threats.

“Creating all that kind of stuff can generate enemies that people believe are responsible for whatever bad thing is happening in the world,” Friedfeld said. “Once that happens, when you believe that that things are happening in the world and a certain person or group of people is responsible for these attacks, all of a sudden, the idea of using violence to resist becomes more plausible.”

Actually, what causes violence is when people are told they’re not allowed to talk about certain topics.

No one wants violence. People want to understand what is going on with these shady people controlling the world, and what their goals are.

We want a say in our own future. We don’t want our lives manipulated for the purposes of a shadowy cabal of transhumanist lunatics.

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