conspirator is a dumb little r package made up by Mathew during a conversation with Matt Williams, Stephen Hill, and Mat Marques about what is and is not a conspiracy.

It’s generally agreed that conspiracy theories must have 3 properties:

1. Multiple actors plotting together (if it’s just one person, it’s not a conspiracy)

2. Secrecy (if there’s open data, it’s not a conspiracy)

3. Malevolence/harmful goals (if you’re plotting to buy mum a present, it’s not a conspiracy)

conspirator uses these parameters to generate a random conspiracy theory for you.

conspirator is not on CRAN, install from github via:

remotes::install_github("Lingtax/conspirator")

Generate a conspiracy theory using the conspire function. By default, the function will return a conspiracy from its inbuilt dictionaries - at the time of writing, this should generate 9333 unique conspiracy theories.

library(conspirator)
conspire()
#> Big Oil is covertly building an earthquake machine.

You can now also provide the conspire function with lists or character vectors to control the outputs either partially or in full.

agents <- list("Bin chickens are", "Brush-tailed possums are")
adverbs <- c("loudly", "brazenly")
actions <- "tipping over my bird bath."

conspire(agent = agents)
#> Brush-tailed possums are deviously making flimsier shoelaces.
conspire(agent = agents, adverb = adverbs, action = actions)
#> Brush-tailed possums are loudly tipping over my bird bath.

Also, inspired by Tim Graham, the package now makes bios for twitter bot accounts, using the bot_maker() function

bot_maker()
#> [1] "live, life love and then play ... a good interesting individual which is constantly beaming and having fun. Explorer and energetic personality."

Please note that the conspirator project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms. In particular, constributors are encouraged to be mindful of perpetuating stigmatising beliefs in contributing to the conspiracy dictionaries.