Dead Internet Theory is the online conspiracy that could really come true

Is the future bleak for the internet? (Picture: Getty/iStockphoto)‘The US government is engaging in an artificial intelligence-powered gaslighting of the entire world population.’Those words are the basis of an online conspiracy theory gaining followers that, weirdly, might be coming true.Well, not the government gaslighting part. That’s tinfoil hat territory. But the ‘Dead Internet Theory’ which it went on to propose – the idea that online is just a sea