How Clinton health conspiracies migrated from far-right to mainstream media

WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) — Hillary Clinton had a three-minute coughing fit on Labor Day that set the media ablaze.
It got written up on heavily trafficked sites like Buzzfeed (Hillary Clinton Jokes Cough is Because She’s “Allergic” to Donald Trump) and NBC News (Hillary Clinton Fights Back Coughing Attack).
The hashtag #HackingHillary began trending on Twitter.
It’s a narrative native to the nooks and crannies of the conservative online world, and widely populari