"Conspiracy" has numerous definitions. Simply put, it's an agreement between two or more persons to engage in evil, unlawful, treacherous, or subversive acts for their personal gain. The words "conspiracy theory" carry heavy connotative weight and they're often applied when a business or governmental agency is suspected of being up to no good.
So when it was revealed that Facebook, the leading social network company, was implicated in a conspiracy to push negative press about Google, a ripple of surprise went through the digital community. What would prompt Facebook to stoop so low as to hire a PR firm to pitch news articles falsely accusing Google of privacy violations, and subtly pushing for investigations by federal authorities? Whispered rumors of Facebook's involvement in the relatively minor PR scandal turned out to be true.
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