While they might be bafflingly popular and useless, the humble fidget spinner is supposedly a tool undermining the Russian state. Alexey Kazakov, a host at state-run channel Rossiya 24, said in a June ...

You might know them as one of the world’s most annoying crazes, but could fidget spinners actually be an elaborate form of mind control? Probably not. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.