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Cold-callers might be fraudsters and emails could be phishing scams.
Dotted lines of dirty money connect venal Westerners with hostile powers.
When a gunman tries to storm a presidential dinner,
half the internet thinks it's a hoax.
Nothing and no one can be trusted, it may seem—
not in real life and, these days, definitely not on TV.
For just as this is a heyday of conspiracism,
it is becoming a golden age of conspiracies on television.
The villains of crime shows and thrillers have traditionally been terrorists,
mobsters and serial killers.
Now they are likely to be dodgy cops, double agents and corrupt politicians.
The danger is coming from inside the house—often the White House.
The fear such stories dramatise is not of a lone maniac but a rogue system.
"Secret Service" supplies the latest inside job on British tellies.