Netflix's 'Leave the World Behind' started trending today as people couldn't use their phones.
Wireless customers with AT&T, Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile, and Verizon all reported outages across the country this morning. And just like clockwork, some folks online pounced on the disruption as evidence of a global conspiracy. Alex Jones, arguably America’s most popular conspiracy theorist, believes the telecom outage is a direct result of Chinese hackers.
which President Donald Trump helped spread. But it wasn’t just conspiracy theorists who were comparing this outage to Leave the World Behind. Apocalyptic movies work by tapping into our greatest fears for the future. In this case, the movie did a good job of making viewers feel like they weren’t sure what was happening.
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