{"id":1467,"date":"2026-04-01T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:04:46","slug":"just-like-during-covid-conspiracy-theorists-are-thriving-amid-the-middle-east-fuel-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/just-like-during-covid-conspiracy-theorists-are-thriving-amid-the-middle-east-fuel-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Just like during Covid, conspiracy theorists are thriving amid the Middle East fuel crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aidan O&#8217;Brien from EDMO Ireland spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/conspiracy-theorists-are-exploiting-the-fuel-crisis-to-spread-fear-6999760-Mar2026\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/conspiracy-theorists-are-exploiting-the-fuel-crisis-to-spread-fear-6999760-Mar2026\">the Journal Factcheck<\/a> about the sudden spike in &#8220;energy lockdown&#8221; conspiracy theories, which are recycling old COVID-19 conspiracy theories about Net-Zero, The Globalist Agenda, and Population Control. However, unlike during COVID, where social media platforms committed to tackling health disinformation of their own volition, we are unlikely to see such voluntary cooperation in any emerging crisis from the platforms in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/conspiracy-theorists-are-exploiting-the-fuel-crisis-to-spread-fear-6999760-Mar2026\">https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/conspiracy-theorists-are-exploiting-the-fuel-crisis-to-spread-fear-6999760-Mar2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aidan O&#8217;Brien from EDMO Ireland spoke to the Journal Factcheck about the sudden spike in &#8220;energy lockdown&#8221; conspiracy theories, which are recycling old COVID-19 conspiracy theories about Net-Zero, The Globalist Agenda, and Population Control. However, unlike during COVID, where social media platforms committed to tackling health disinformation of their own volition, we are unlikely to &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/just-like-during-covid-conspiracy-theorists-are-thriving-amid-the-middle-east-fuel-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just like during Covid, conspiracy theorists are thriving amid the Middle East fuel crisis&#8221;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[30,27,34,32,31,33],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-policy","tag-covid","tag-disinformation","tag-energy","tag-iran","tag-lockdown","tag-middle-east"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-01-at-12.53.42.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}