Technology & Surveillance Theories

Claims that a secret US military base at Camp Hero in Montauk, New York ran experiments on time travel, mind control, teleportation, and contact with extraterrestrials from 1971 to 1983.

The claim that the US Navy conducted an October 1943 experiment at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard that made the destroyer USS Eldridge temporarily invisible and teleported it to Norfolk, Virginia — with horrific effects on crew members.

A sophisticated computer worm discovered in 2010 that sabotaged centrifuges at Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility — later confirmed to have been developed jointly by the US (NSA/CIA) and Israel (Unit 8200) under Operation Olympic Games.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (Boeing 777) vanished on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Primary-radar, satellite ping, and debris analysis place the crash in the southern Indian Ocean, but the main wreckage has never been located.

A UK-based political consulting firm that harvested Facebook data of up to 87 million users through a personality quiz app, then used the data for psychographic targeting on behalf of the Trump 2016 campaign and Leave.EU.

Volkswagen deliberately programmed 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide with "defeat device" software that detected emissions testing and temporarily reduced pollution output. During normal driving, the cars emitted up to 40 times the legal limit of nitrogen oxides. Exposed by West Virginia University researchers in 2014.

Facebook secretly manipulated the news feeds of 689,003 users for one week in January 2012 to test whether emotional contagion could be achieved through social media. Published in PNAS in 2014 without informed consent from subjects.

The theory that social media platforms deliberately design their algorithms to maximize division, radicalization, and addiction for profit, with full knowledge of the psychological and social harm they cause.

The theory that governments and corporations use smartphones, smart speakers, social media, and other connected devices to conduct mass surveillance on citizens far beyond what is publicly acknowledged.