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2025-03-31 04:39:51 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: F917018515769FB4A990E60490E0D7C81FEA8F720CC820940433EEF0DBDF27D2
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The claim that the term “conspiracy theory” was invented by the CIA in the late 1960s is false. It was first recorded in 1863 in The New York Times: https://hapgood.us/2018/12/24/the-first-use-of-the-term-conspiracy-theory-is-much-earlier-and-more-interesting-than-historians-have-thought/ https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-conspiracy-theory-jfk-941578119864 There’s a conspiracy theory that the CIA invented the term "conspiracy theory": https://theconversation.com/theres-a-conspiracy-theory-that-the-cia-invented-the-term-conspiracy-theory-heres-why-132117 https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/tinfoil-hats-not-needed-to-repel-cia-conspiracy-theorist-creation-claim/
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