Is something fishy going on at Subway? There’s a rumor floating around that their tuna fish actually isn’t made from tuna at all. So what’s the truth? Let’s use Dekonspira to dive into this conspiracy and see how deep it goes.

First, we’ll search for “Subway tuna sandwich.”

Under Docs, we can see reports about a “tuna lawsuit” accusing Subway of fraud.

We’ll tap the pin on the first one, which allows us to add it to a lab. We’ll tap the + to create a new lab for this topic. Now, when we tap “Labs” on the bottom right, we can see our Tuna Sandwich Conspiracy Lab with that article saved under Bulk of Evidence. We can also now read the article in full.

So far, we’ve read that DNA testing showed that the tuna Subway uses was not, in fact, tuna. But Subway is adamant that they use 100% tuna. Let’s open Maps and type in “Subway tuna” to see what other related topics are out there.

Tap on New York Times, Subway, and DNA Testing on the map to highlight them, then tap Docs in the lower left corner. This shows us articles the app found that include at least two of our selections.

Now we’ll choose these first two articles, which include our three terms (New York Times, Subway, and DNA Testing), to highlight them. Then we’ll select Maps.

This generates a new map, but we don’t see anything useful for our search.

Going back to our first map, we’ll choose Subway and “Tuna industry official.”

When we tap Docs, we get an article about a tuna industry official saying Subway is “off the hook” for these accusations about their tuna. Let’s go ahead and add that to our Lab. (Also, props to that reporter for the pun!)

This article says the lawsuit’s wording has changed. At first, the lawsuit claimed the sandwiches did not contain tuna. Then in June it was reworded to specify the sandwiches did not contain “100% sustainably caught skipjack and yellowfin tuna.” Apparently, Subway also changed the description on their website to say “100% wild-caught tuna blended with creamy mayo.”

Hmm…so what kind of tuna does Subway use (or claim to use)? We’ll search “what kind of tuna does Subway sell.”

When we tap on the first result, it highlights the article in red. Tapping on the picture opens the full article, which ends with a statement from Subway: “As a member of the International Pole & Line Foundation, our restaurants in the UK and Ireland receive 100% pole-line caught, skipjack tuna.”

So what’s the deal with those suspicious DNA test results? Let’s search for “tuna DNA test” and see what comes up. Aha! According to this headline, those tests aren’t reliable.

Interesting! So wait…is the lawsuit still proceeding? Let’s do one last search for “Subway tuna lawsuit.”

That brings us to a piece on how the woman who sued in the first place has asked the judge to dismiss her case because she’s pregnant. And here’s a plot twist: it seems Subway has demanded her lawyers be sanctioned for bringing a frivolous case!