Conspiracy theories have gone from fringe to mainstream in recent years, propagated by the dispersion of memes that have, for some, replaced factual news reporting. Conspiracy-minded folks have pinned the implementation of 5G wireless internet technology as the cause of the COVID-19 outbreak and, recently, it was believed that a blueprint for a 5G mind control chip was discovered, but it was actually just a blueprint for a guitar pedal.
Twitter user Mario Fusco shared a photo of two blueprints, one that conspiracy theorists believe is the 5G mind control chip being inserted into the various COVID-19 vaccines (spoiler alert: it s not), and the other being the electric circuit diagram of the Boss MetalZone MT-2 guitar pedal.
Look, you have to hand it to conspiracy theorists they come up with some truly incredible stuff.
When last we checked in on 5G truthers, they were buying fake Faraday cages because they believed the fifth generation of broadband cell networks spreads COVID-19, and if they put their WiFi routers in the metallic boxes, they’d be protected from the harmful radiation. (Just go with it.) In a fun twist, those who bought the router guards disguised as the real thing were mad when they
did, in fact, block their WiFi signals … just not the 5G radiation.
Now, 5G conspiracy theorists are at it again, and this time they’ve upped the ante by spreading a hoax that will appeal to metalheads.
Conspiracy theories have gone from fringe to mainstream in recent years, propagated by the dispersion of memes that have, for some, replaced factual news reporting. Conspiracy-minded folks have pinned the implementation of 5G wireless internet technology as the cause of the COVID-19 outbreak and, recently, it was believed that a blueprint for a 5G mind control chip was discovered, but it was actually just a blueprint for a guitar pedal.
Twitter user Mario Fusco shared a photo of two blueprints, one that conspiracy theorists believe is the 5G mind control chip being inserted into the various COVID-19 vaccines (spoiler alert: it s not), and the other being the electric circuit diagram of the Boss MetalZone MT-2 guitar pedal.
By Marvin Moore
Jan 5, 2021
There s a fun story up at Mashable about a viral image conspiracy theorists believed proved that 5G chips were being inserted into doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. The claim has been debunked and the image actually depicts a circuit board for the Boss Metal Zone guitar pedal.
The clues were there all along. The diagram includes terms like Bass, Treble, and Volume.
Photo: Getty Images