Communications Major

Make-believe girlfriends, truthers, the man who watched cat videos while outsourcing his six-figure job to China, Jodie Foster is not Honey Boo Boo and when is it time to stop taking your own Instagrams and hire a social media butler? - it all seems so surreal. And it is, because this is what people are talking about online this week. Yowza!

In recent weeks, Sandy Hook conspiracy theories have cut into an ever growing share of attention focused on the tragedy, with many on the web “questioning the official narrative” regarding the sad event — positing that the Newtown school massacre didn't happen as reported - or maybe didn't even happen at all. The Sandy Hook conspiracy crowd has been referred to as “Sandy Hook truthers,” and in a digital age, amplify their message via Twitter, YouTube and on Facebook.