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Hello, this is six minute English from BBC learning English. I'm Neil and I'm Sam

tell me Sam do you think Neil Armstrong really landed on the moon in 1969?

I mean that must be fake news.

And who shot John F Kennedy?

Surely the CIA were involved, unless it was the giant lizards controlling the government.

Oh dear it looks like reading online conspiracies has sent Neil down the rabbit

hole an expression used to describe a situation which seems interesting and

uncomplicated at first but ends up becoming strange, confusing and hard to escape

from.

Luckily in this program we'll be hearing some advice on how to talk to people who've become

convinced by online conspiracies.

It seems that during times of crisis as people feel uncertain and

fearful they actively look for information to feel more secure. Nowadays

as information is often found online. And while there are reliable facts out there,

there's also a lot of misinformation.

Somebody who's the target of many conspiracy theories is Microsoft's Bill Gates and our BBC fact-checkers have been

busy debunking or exposing some of the more bizarre accusations made against him.

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