emergent digital highway, they acted as “thought contagions” that spread “information diseases.” Works like JFK and the X-Files that “expose millions to their counter-narratives” now became a source of transmission for this disease. McVeigh and his ilk possessed a form of “dangerous knowledge” said to be infecting the mainstream on both the political left and right and a conspiratorial ideology that many now claimed led its adherents to commit hate crimes.
