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Including this one. There were public hearings where you could see the extent of quiet backroom communication between the US government and Twitter for example, so why does this padlocked article suggest the very phrase itself is a conspiracy theory? The term is both nebulous and transient, and a more encyclopedic term would be "theory".14.202.215.60 (talk) 14:07, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

quiet backroom communication between the US government and Twitter. That narrative turns out to have been nonsense and is not reevant to this article anyhow. Do you have any reliable sources for your very broad statement and how the term conspiracy theory is misused in this article? O3000, Ret. (talk) 14:14, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User Pretendus‎ has three times attempted to remove the attribution statement at the start of the article replacing to with a word generally used for those accused of crimes