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title: "Conspiracy Theories: MySpace, Facebook, Amazon"
date: 2006-01-09
author: "Richard MacManus"
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  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
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# Conspiracy Theories: MySpace, Facebook, Amazon

Perhaps I ventured a bit too far out of my echo chamber, but today I came across 3 different conspiracy theory articles about popular Web companies. One was about e-commerce giant Amazon.com and the other two related to leading Social Networking sites MySpace and Facebook. The theories namecheck the CIA, the FBI and a non-showering CEO who allegedly used to a run porn site. \[[continued on my ZDNet blog…](https://web.archive.org/web/20090513034135/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=95)\]

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/conspiracy_theo.php))*