A faulty update to Microsoft’s Windows operating systems shook the planet on Friday, grounding planes, putting workers out of work and disrupting financial markets.

The American cybersecurity group CrowdStrike, whose software was the cause of the outage, ruled out the idea of a cyberattack or IT security problem.

But that hasn’t stopped conspiracy theories from proliferating on social networks, many of which have removed the safeguards that prevent the spread of false information. Illustration of the fact that today, informational chaos almost systematically follows a global event.. . Source