Ever-growing influence of social media and AI means such ideas spreading at faster rates than before, experts say<\/p>\n
Hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks carry with them familiar attendants in the US: extreme conspiracy theories about a planned pandemic, or \u201cplandemic\u201d, designed to upend midterms elections or push new vaccines or any one of a myriad of wild ideas.<\/p>\n
Ebola, which the World Health Organization warned Friday is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and poses a \u201cvery high\u201d risk at the national level. In the upside-down world of conspiracy theories it could be a bioweapon, a financial plot, or a scheme to extract national resources.<\/p>\n
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