Contorium: how a conspiracy narrative embraced a Turkish parody crystal

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Contorium: how a conspiracy narrative embraced a Turkish parody crystal

In 2007, Can Güney Kuseyri posted a short piece of satire about a fake element on Ekşisözlük, Turkey’s popular social media platform once described by Zeynep Tüfekçi as “Wikipedia, a social network, and Reddit rolled into one.” His inspiration came from another joke, the “feomidium” element, which had been “invented” by a journalist a year before and later adopted into the Islamist Saadet Party’s election chatter. These priceless, game-changing …