- With conspiracy theories of the past there was also a a certain closure or ending to the ideas. They reached a conclusion and the loops were closed. In the digital age these theories just keep spreading and there seems to be no way to stop them really. ----- "In the digital age, he said, sense-making had become a fragmented, nonlinear and crowdsourced affair that as a result could never reach a conclusion and lacked internal logic. There were always potential new connections to be spotted — in the case of the 2020 election, for instance, two imprisoned Italian hackers, or a voting machine company founded by Venezuelans. This lack of satisfying resolution meant the new theories had no natural stopping point, he said, and their perpetual motion eventually brought them to a place that was “much more strident” " - [Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/conspiracy-theory-qanon.html)