The Daily Show: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy - The Early Internet & 9/11 Conspiracies

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Jordan Klepper has heard a lot of 9/11 conspiracy theories at Trump rallies, including this shiny emerald: Osama bin Laden was a CIA operative named Tim Ossman.

Together with Dr. Joan Donovan, research director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Jordan unpacks how the early days of the internet and social media have shaped 9/11 conspiracy theories that are still popping up in more places than rallies two decades later.

They are joined by veteran and filmmaker Korey Rowe who co-produced “Loose Change,” one of the first viral conspiracy theory films on 9/11. They discuss the legacy of the film, how the right wing has weaponized conspiracy theories for political gain, and what conversations we should be having about the role of the media.

[Warpy]

1. Donovan was great and well worth the whole video

and yes, we need to start having conversations about whether or not free speech is automatically entitled to a big megaphone, and what the responsibility of the megaphone company should be in vetting their customers and policing their use of the company's megaphone.

Spare Change guy still doesn't admit how far off the mark he was with that thing.

[stopdiggin]

2. the Kyrie Irving school

of "Just sayin' .."

what we really need is a universal 'contestant buzzer' ..
social, and social media, equivalent of the vaudeville hook ..

[burrowowl]

3. K&R