Conspiracy Theories Run Wild Amid Mass U.S. Cell Outage

Wireless customers with AT&T, Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile, and Verizon all reported outages across the country this morning. And just like clockwork, some folks online pounced on the disruption as evidence of a global conspiracy. Alex Jones, arguably America's most popular conspiracy theorist, believes the telecom outage is a direct result of Chinese hackers. Advertisement "Is it a cyber attack? AT&T is being very tight-lipped," Jones insisted in a web broadcast on Thursday in his typical "just asking questions" style. Advertisement In fact, even people who aren't known conspiracy theorists were bringing up the apocalyptic Netflix movie Leave the World Behind,…