Conspiracy Theories Run Wild Amid Mass U.S. Cell Outage

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Wireless customers with AT&T, Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile, and Verizon all reported outages across the country this morning. And just like clockwork, some folks online pounced on the disruption as evidence of a global conspiracy. Alex Jones, arguably America’s most popular conspiracy theorist, believes the telecom outage is a direct result of Chinese hackers. Advertisement “Is it a cyber attack? AT&T is being very tight-lipped,” Jones insisted in a web broadcast on Thursday in his typical “just asking questions” style. Advertisement In fact, even people who aren’t known conspiracy theorists were bringing up the apocalyptic Netflix movie Leave the World Behind,...