Sure, there was a conspiracy. A bunch of right-wing social media people coordinated the ballroom message: https://slate.com/technology/2026/04/trump-ballroom-ashley-st-clair-maga.html I was referring to people calling it staged. As in the President knew this was going to happen, planned for it to happen and made it happen. It's nonsense, there is zero evidence for this being true. I mean, as far as a conspiracy, there's ample evidence that [adversarial nations use their intelligence services, bots and hired trolls to push messaging on social media to create conflict and division](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_farm). What are these troll farms doing around this situation? They are not simply sitting out and not messaging around this topic... so what message are these kinds of groups pushing? It does seem pretty suspicious that every single one of these security incidents was followed by a tsunami of 'it was staged' posts full of the same bad faith interpretations, misinformation, toxic trolling behavior and vote manipulation. After a few weeks all of the people rabidly pushing these ideas seem to disappear outside of the regular conspiracy places. Kind of like they've moved on to another topic en masse. If you're a member of this community you'll recognize how different a tone exists in these kinds of threads than in all of the others related to Privacy. It is almost as if there are people from outside of the community who are going around to the various communities and pushing a specific message. If you looked at the comment history of the people pushing these messages you'd find that they have few, if any, comments in this community before this topic. On the other hand, there is ZERO evidence to support the shooter being part of a secret plan to (...what?) get a ballroom built.