re: #10 Areozol

Indeed, it sounds very familiar. I’m wondering if it’s more a sign of how credulous people propagate their fiction? All those entries on Snopes had to pass through a number of people willing to suspend disbelief at some point, right? ;)
(Of course, that would indicate that the original yarnspinners are predominately American..)

As I said, I personally think that this a by-product of Internet revolution in communication. Lets suppose, that someone have some paranoid views about the world. What he does? He looks on the Internet, uses Google, YouTube and finds “proofs”, like the the video of dude, who is claiming that Bill Gated advocates depopulation on TEDTalk or the trooofer “documentary” about 9/11.

Then he meets on-line people who are thinking exactly like he. They share more videos, links, articles etc. some of them knows English and translates textes from abroad etc.

This is how it works, IMO.