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Jacob Kastrenakes
Conspiracies have immediately started trending on X.

The platform is promoting trending topics including “staged” and “#falseflag” — the kinds of conspiracy theories that other major social networks might moderate away.

“#falseflag” is listed with 1,211 posts and “staged” is listed with 213k psots.
Trending topics on X right now.
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