CONSPIRACY 2

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8/18 see main and bak, also fake news</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see false flag
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</font></div><div><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">aha anti semite [the original archetypal conspiracy theory: unseen evil force at fault for all, vs actual structural], anti- islam (sikh temple?)</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">intolerace or inability to deal with complexity requires a single simple answer.</font></span></div><div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style=""><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?458812-2/republic-lies"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.c-span.org/video/?458812-2/republic-lies</font></a></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><span class="time" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; display: block; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><time style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">APRIL 6, 2019</font></time></span><h1 class="video-page-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Republic of Lies</font></span></h1><div class="initial" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Journalist Anna Merlan looked at how conspiracy theories take root in society.</font></p></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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President Trump tweeted that former CIA analyst Larry Johnson has

accused the United Kingdom's intelligence agencies of "helping [the]

Obama Administration Spy on the 2016 Trump Presidential Campaign." Trump

was apparently tweeting in response to a segment he <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bb0fb327b528c545d0aae6c269c763ada4d3de189df3ea8261d6a1e72e61df74d38317a0533a107f4360e75e5505689a8" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="watched">watched</a> on One America News Network, a far right news channel that traffics in conspiracy theories.</font><p style="margin-bottom:1em;">

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bd69ccdd8c72c1ab6cb5fa4e02b01feff2d33e006d05ac7e012b6b7eb4b1111c19617c9d2c9a3d2c66f6f725e57f8d1db" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a> that Trump resurfaced this week helped cause an <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b7104249e40f8bae3b0bfb76ababe023bb2a94415167f2bff6d125f11b2fdd32c80801a5607d8fbb3181e6af2f32c0c25" style="text-decoration: underline;" title=" international incident">international incident</a> between the United States and the United Kingdom in 2017.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;">

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Larry Johnson is a conservative conspiracy theorist notorious for <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b2138ba1312dfe6e62e3bf12bdc872a6bed51cd6f53e79c25b3fcbf19864ec9d525b2e5d3f69c42389eac39f12a748667" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="pushing racist smears ">pushing racist smears</a> about former first lady Michelle Obama. In 2017, Johnson <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b9532f2e4a3afb86023d84abe08166cbd5c489f83dd25bcaca2ed7218bacd454252a90732c6cd68a2bdd6d6edc75a2adb" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="argued">argued</a>

that "there was some collusion overseas" between U.S. intelligence and a

U.K. security agency, and that British intelligence fed information

about Trump to Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan. None of these

allegations are true.

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano shared the theory on <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b22f57f29c871de67d8a5fb5a1827ffaebf69eeb879dffd1e829cf401a93625f10558745071083b4287d756d75de606b7" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="two Fox News shows">two Fox News shows</a> in 2017. Then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bcee0a895086d3813b6a98414942e8a20cf47afff1e9e20b4922efbb762336506230e040b67041c4576e9d36167e22890" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="cited Napolitano's conspiracy theory">cited Napolitano's conspiracy theory</a>

in a press briefing, suggesting that one of the United States'

strongest allies was illegally spying on Trump on behalf of

then-President Barack Obama.<</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After <i>The New York Times</i> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b452e6c1113d62ae3b66420a49fbf10de57ab223116427ec3b3d02c543010e1809be6fcbaafdbacd8a513da078583fc2e" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="confirmed">confirmed</a> <i>Media Matters'</i> discovery that Johnson was one of Napolitano's sources for the conspiracy theory, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b01b8588b8af511141d80507b01734c1deacb39f2131e1294f8fe447a7d01cd51c177d939068bcd2f12e563dae0e5aa20" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="Fox News suspended Napolitano">Fox News suspended Napolitano</a> "indefinitely," which turned out to be

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b671dfa592c1b2c47d35e6e8a537f03f11dc347a766ab70f45f2b89b0c1b0b9779396792df4124b0fcf57426ed16c1a04" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="about two weeks">about two weeks

</a>. President Trump ducked all responsibility, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bfd4562037a54cbdeef1f6be2f45435770d08fe2da34927c49fae8535a0740f8b6ce501f453cdbf8148875c73b33b4bca" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="blaming Fox News">blaming Fox News</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;">

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, two

years later, the president is pushing the same conspiracy theory that

previously damaged the U.S.-U.K. alliance, and which the British

government has recently denounced as <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b2f2a56025a401e86f7fa2d63f832c373756fcb085adb293a938265d8f1bd77030bc2468cb0f1fe5a6aa234ae5dc4a3be" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="" utterly="utterly" ridiculous="ridiculous">"utterly ridiculous."</a></font></p></div><div style=""><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/nra-official-contacted-sandy-hook-truther-to-discuss-conspiracy-theory-on-parkland-shooting-report/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/nra-official-contacted-sandy-hook-truther-to-discuss-conspiracy-theory-on-parkland-shooting-report/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Wednesday,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exclusive-nra-sandy-hook-hoaxer-parkland-shooting_n_5c8aa54de4b03e83bdbe59eb" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">HuffPost</a>&nbsp;reported that Mark Richardson, a National Rifle Association official and coordinator, got in touch with a noted Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist to speculate that the Parkland shooting in February 2018 may have been an inside job:</font></p><div class="p1_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="2" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; border: none !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>NRA officer Mark Richardson emailed Wolfgang Halbig, a noted harasser of parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims, to float a conspiracy theory about the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed last year.</b></font></p><div class="p2_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Just like [Sandy Hook], there is so much more to this story,” Richardson said in an email dated Feb. 15, 2018 ― just one day after the Florida shooting. Twenty children and six adults were killed during the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. “[The Parkland shooter] was not alone.” The email was sent from his official NRA email address.</font></p><div class="p3_7" style="font-style: italic; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div></div></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Reached for comment by HuffPost, Richardson doubled down. “Since an individual who was prohibited from the school was aloud [sic] to pass through the front doors with a backpack containing a long gun, it is a legitimate question to ask if he had assistance concerning access to the school,” he wrote. “No one else seems to be interested enough to even ask the question?”</b></font></p><div class="p4_7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook shooting have persisted for years. Far-right InfoWars host Alex Jones claimed that the whole thing was staged by the government with child actors and no kids were harmed ― which ultimately led to a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/sandy-hook-shooting-victims-families-legal-victory-alex-jones-infowars-778032/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">lawsuit</a>&nbsp;against him by parents of the victims.</font></p><div class="p5_7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">With the Parkland shooting, conspiracy theories have tended to focus more on the student activists like&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gq.com/story/the-sliming-of-david-hogg-and-emma-gonzalez" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">David Hogg and Emma González</a>, who have led the March For Our Lives youth campaign to effect reform of our nation’s gun laws. Hogg, in particular, has been the target of vicious smears, including claims that he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/david-hogg-on-campus-rumor-hoax/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">wasn’t actually at the shooting</a>&nbsp;or was backed by Hungarian billionaire&nbsp;<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xd47e/david-hogg-responds-to-parkland-conspiracy-theories" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">George Soros</a>.</font></p><div class="p6_7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The NRA has long agitated to crush tougher gun control laws in this country. But for its officials to be directly engaged in trutherism about school shootings is a new low.</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">also rush</font></div><div style=""><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 10px !important;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/03/19/alex-jones-has-secondary-youtube-channel-where-he-claims-new-zealand-mosque-shootings-were-false/223170" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; border: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Alex Jones has a secondary YouTube channel where he claims the New Zealand mosque shootings were a false flag</font></a></h2></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style=""><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watson’s new project appears to be the latest&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/03/01/despite-bans-youtube-still-profiting-alex-jones-and-infowars/223030" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">effort</a>&nbsp;of Infowars to get its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/06/13/here-exactly-what-alex-jones-has-said-about-sandy-hook-massacre/216889" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">brand of toxic commentary</a>&nbsp;before&nbsp;<a href="https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DS_Alternative_Influence.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">a younger audience</a>&nbsp;on a platform where the outlet is largely banned. On February 27, Jones made a nearly five-hour appearance on Joe Rogan’s show&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal;">The Joe Rogan Experience</em>&nbsp;during which he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2019/02/28/alex-jones-and-joe-rogan-made-peace-with-a-bizarre-podcast/#2ef826bc7da3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">ranted and pushed</a>outlandish conspiracy theories. The appearance has drawn more than 10 million views and Rogan’s channel is monetized, meaning YouTube is profiting off of the video through ad revenue sharing. Likewise, newly hired Infowars personality Kaitlin Bennett made a February 25 appearance on massive YouTube star Logan Paul’s podcast. Like Rogan’s show, Paul’s podcast is monetized. Recapping her appearance with Jones on his program, Bennett gloated about sharing with Paul’s audience a “perspective on gun rights and the Second Amendment that they probably didn’t think they were ever going to watch.” Jones said he was “glad” Bennett appeared on the show because of its large audience and because it’s hosted by the “college kids that the tweenies and 13-year-olds look up to.” Jones also said he would like to appear on the show himself.</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style=""><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">VirtualShield, a company that sells virtual private network (VPN) software,&nbsp;is being promoted&nbsp;most prominently by YouTube creators who produce content that features conspiracy theories and far-right political commentary, in addition to&nbsp;programming hosted by at least one open white nationalist.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As a 2017&nbsp;</span><a id="LPlnk178540" href="https://medium.com/@12504771/virtualshield-cannot-be-trusted-e5d054560699" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">blog post</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;pointed out, the ownership of VirtualShield is virtually unknown. The business was established using a method that allowed&nbsp;the&nbsp;founders to conceal their ownership and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">VirtualShield’s listed business location is the office of a company that&nbsp;<a id="LPlnk14641" href="https://titanoffices.com/product/titan-identity/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">sells</a>&nbsp;businesses a virtual office address for $45</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">VirtualShield&nbsp;runs an ambassador program in which websites and creators can make referral bonuses for directing their fans to VirtualShield&nbsp;products.</font></p><figure id="attachment_501914" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 100%; width: 1434px;"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">[img]
</font><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.2;"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">(Screenshot / VirtualShield)</font></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">However, the use&nbsp;of conspiracy theory rhetoric in its own in-house advertising suggests that VirtualShield may be making a direct effort to target right-wing audiences whose members are convinced&nbsp;that they are being surveilled&nbsp;because of&nbsp;their political beliefs.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">One advertisement, featured on VirtualShield’s&nbsp;website, warns&nbsp;viewers&nbsp;about “<b>the men in black suits” </b>who are said&nbsp;to use the internet to orchestrate&nbsp;the spread of&nbsp;political propaganda and the “controlling of your mind”—rhetoric similar to that&nbsp;spread by&nbsp;Alex Jones and his Infowars media operation. To help fuel their paranoid narrative, they rely on legitimate concerns about data collection by big tech platforms, and the possibility of that data being hacked. But then they add an even more ominous, if mysterious, note.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“I guarantee you have a 100 percent chance that someone, a government agency, internet service provider, or an online hacker, is not only watching what you watch—they’re recording what you watch and they’re selling that information to people who pummel you with target-specific ads. And that’s not the half of it,” a narrator reads during one ad posted on VirtualShield’s YouTube channel.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">[vid?]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Some of the YouTube creators&nbsp;advertising VirtualShield and&nbsp;producing far-right content and right-wing conspiracy theory content include:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Conspiracy Theorists</font></strong></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; line-height: 1.5; list-style: circle;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jordan Sather, a conspiracy theorist YouTuber who has&nbsp;<a id="LPlnk999266" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/qanon-believers-see-a-promise-in-trumps-game-of-thrones-poster-because-of-course/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">dedicated</a>&nbsp;his channel in recent months to the byzantine “QAnon” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">conspiracy theory and&nbsp;</span><a id="LPlnk56028" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGrfN3v5JL8" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">appeared</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;on Comedy Central’s “The Jim Jefferies Show” last year to vouch for the QAnon conspiracy theory;</span></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul Begley, a right-wing pastor who&nbsp;<a id="LPlnk159136" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/paul-begley-peter-strzok-is-a-part-of-a-demonically-controlled-illuminati-secret-society/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">declared</a>&nbsp;his perceived foes to be part of a demonic Illuminati secret society,<a id="LPlnk445746" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/paul-begley-the-deep-state-wants-to-remove-trump-and-place-christians-in-internment-camps/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">warned</a>&nbsp;that the “deep state” seeks to put Christians in internment camps, and&nbsp;<a id="LPlnk685800" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/paul-begley-stands-by-his-claim-that-melania-trump-ordered-the-white-house-to-be-exorcised/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">claimed</a>&nbsp;that Melania Trump ordered the White House undergo an exorcism;</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Lisa Haven, a conspiracy theorist who gives her viewers warnings about government mind-control programs and plots to exterminate human life, in addition to theories about the “deep state”;</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Rex Bear’s Leak Project,&nbsp;which&nbsp;shares,&nbsp;among other things, esoteric theories about chemtrails, the Illuminati, sasquatch sightings, and aliens.</font></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Far-Right Creators</font></strong></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; line-height: 1.5; list-style: circle;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andy “Warski” Pires, a right-wing reactionary YouTube creator who piloted a “<a id="LPlnk359102" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/welcome-to-youtube-bloodsports-the-alt-rights-newest-recruiting-tool/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">YouTube bloodsports”</a>series last year that acted as a platform for far-right and white nationalist pundits;</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James Allsup, a white nationalist YouTube pundit who flaunts his involvement in the white nationalist group<b> Identity Evropa </b>and&nbsp;<a id="LPlnk156875" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/local-gop-warms-to-alt-right-activist-james-allsup-claims-he-was-label-lynched/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">held an elected position</a>&nbsp;in his local GOP before he was&nbsp;<a id="LPlnk179421" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-ejects-charlottesville-hate-marcher-james-allsup-after-daily-beast-expose" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">ousted</a>&nbsp;from that post;</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Lauren Southern,</b> a right-wing pundit and former Rebel Media star who has produced white nationalist&nbsp;<a id="LPlnk145680" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/on-breitbart-lauren-southern-warns-south-africa-headed-toward-white-genocide/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">agitprop</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a id="LPlnk779762" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lauren-southern-praises-white-only-ethnostate-jokes-that-people-are-offended-by-its-lack-of-crime/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">praised</a>&nbsp;a whites-only town in South Africa for its low crime rate;</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Brooks Heatherly, a.k.a. “NoBullshit,” a YouTube creator who upholds “race realism,” defended the alt-right Unite the Right rally against criticism, and has expressed anti-Semitic sentiments on numerous occasions.</font></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">We attempted to reach VirtualShield for this article but did not receive a response. A customer service representative directed us to the company’s support email address. We emailed the support form, received confirmation that our message had been received, and received no further contact.</font></p></div></div><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Tags:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/andy-warski/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Andy Warski</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/james-allsup/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">James Allsup</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/jordan-sather/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Jordan Sather</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/lauren-southern/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Lauren Southern</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/lisa-haven/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Lisa Haven</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/paul-begley/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Paul Begley</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/rex-bear/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Rex Bear</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/conspiracy-theories/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">conspiracy theories</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/tech-companies/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">tech companies</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/youtube/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">YouTube</a></font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/how-mainstream-media-helps-weaponize-far-right-conspiracy-theories">https://www.alternet.org/how-mainstream-media-helps-weaponize-far-right-conspiracy-theories</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ce an anti-Semitic rumor moved from fringe to the mainstream, it took less than two weeks for violence to erupt. The false allegation that liberal philanthropist George Soros was funding or supporting a caravan of Honduran refugees heading to the U.S. spread wildly from a single tweet posted on Oct. 14.</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/us/robert-bowers-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooter.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Along with</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/cesar-sayoc-suspected-bomber-van-right-wing-trump-memes.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">far-right memes</a>, that allegation helped motivate both an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/a-conspiracy-theory-about-george-soros-and-a-migrant-caravan-inspired-horror/2018/10/28/52df587e-dae6-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html?utm_term=.5958ee23bae2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">alleged</a><a href="https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/the-rumor-caravan-from-twitter-reply-to-disaster.php" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mail-bomber</a>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/2/15946556/antisemitism-enlightenment-george-soros-conspiracy-theory-globalist" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mass</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/10/29/18037580/pittsburgh-shooter-anti-semitism-racist-jewish-caravan" style="text-decoration-line: none;">shooter</a>&nbsp;at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The way these messages traveled across the internet in this short time span is just one example of how extremist messages and memes circulate with incredible speed across mainstream social media platforms.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">From our vantage point as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.baylor.edu/communication/index.php?id=68158" style="text-decoration-line: none;">researchers of visual</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZBgs73QAAAAJ&hl=en" style="text-decoration-line: none;">digital communication</a>,&nbsp;<b>memes&nbsp;</b>– short, often image-based forms of communication – are powerful engines of persuasion, even though they can appear innocuous or even humorous. Perhaps the best known examples are&nbsp;<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lolcats" style="text-decoration-line: none;">LOLCats</a>&nbsp;memes, pairing funny pictures of cats with customizable phrases or sentences.<b>&nbsp;Memes can disseminate information quickly because they invite people to share or remix content with little effort required, making widespread dispersal more likely.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Memes need not be humorous or factual to be functional.&nbsp;All they need to do is attract attention online, which often translates into mainstream media coverage. That makes memes potent tools for distributing disinformation. Moreover, the online and mainstream platforms that amplify memes’ circulation can weaponize false claims and encourage conspiracy theorists – sometimes toward violence.</b></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><interaction data-token="5b96855f8198b4e625350260" data-context="true" data-tags="" data-fallback="true" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Memes move conspiracies</b></interaction></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Understanding how these messages embolden anti-Semitism and other forms of terrorism involves grappling with how white supremacists use digital media. As we detail in our forthcoming book “<a href="https://www.peterlang.com/abstract/title/68980" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Make America Meme Again</a>,” messages and memes weaponized in far-right networks are&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/04/technology/jobs-not-mobs.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">deft political tools</a>&nbsp;that move swiftly across social and traditional media<b>. Because memes are stealthy political messages that usually offer rebellious or irreverent humor, they can be easily retweeted, shared or even pasted to the side of a van.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before the dawn of today’s social media network, right-wing extremists were more difficult to find, often gathering in local communities and later discreetly in online forums unknown to the vast majority of internet users. Paranoid, rabid discourses of this ilk still boil around those darker corners of the internet. Today, memes help right-wing extremists communicate with one another and with mainstream audiences.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Soros has been demonized</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;by&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/soros-philanthropy/547247/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">right-wing activists for years, if not decades</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Long before the Pittsburgh attack and the mail bombings, conspiracy theories about him were common on all sorts of right-wing discussion areas – including on Infowars, 4chan, Reddit and Gab. Starting in March 2018, the terms&nbsp;</span><a href="https://medium.com/@d1gi/rumores-sin-fronteras-e181aadf7743" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">“caravan,” “immigrants” and “Soros”</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;were frequently posted together on Twitter and Facebook.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Memes&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46073979" style="text-decoration-line: none;">depicting Soros as an evil fascist</a>&nbsp;facilitating an invasion were commonplace.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The alleged mail bomber covered his van with “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/nyregion/cnn-cory-booker-pipe-bombs-sent.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">images and slogans</a>&nbsp;often found on fringe right-wing social media accounts.” But the suspect didn’t find them on radical sites where white supremacists hide. Instead,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/cesar-sayoc-twitter-facebook-soros/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">based on his social media activity</a>, he likely was radicalized in the same place most people look at cute photos of friends’ kids and check up on Aunt Beatrice –&nbsp;<b>Facebook.</b></font></p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From fringe to network</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Social media platforms have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/us/gab-robert-bowers-pittsburgh-synagogue-shootings.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">tried to push hate speech and uninformed conspiracy theories</a>&nbsp;off their sites, but that’s a&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/fear-more-than-hate-feeds-online-bigotry-and-real-world-violence-106988" style="text-decoration-line: none;">difficult task both technologically and ethically</a>. Often, conspiracy promoters find ways to get their ideas into&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/cesar-sayoc-twitter-facebook-soros/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">well-trafficked social media</a>, where&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/misinformation-and-biases-infect-social-media-both-intentionally-and-accidentally-97148" style="text-decoration-line: none;">algorithms promote posts</a>&nbsp;that garner lots of responses – whether appreciative or outraged.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2018/10/31/george-soros-and-migrant-caravan-how-lie-multiplied-online/1824633002/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">repeated</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-fact-check-president-trumps-rhetoric-and-the-truth-about-migrant-caravans" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fact</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2018/10/no-evidence-soros-is-funding-immigrant-caravan/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">checking</a>, the conspiracy grew. Bots and other&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/twitters-bot-problem-still-seems-as-bad-as-ever" style="text-decoration-line: none;">automated accounts drove roughly 60 percent</a>&nbsp;of online talk about the caravan – but people were part of it too, often&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/06/16/six-in-10-of-you-will-share-this-link-without-reading-it-according-to-a-new-and-depressing-study/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">sharing posts without doing any sort of verification</a>. Ultimately, these messages and memes may have inspired terrorism.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">By October, discussions of the “caravan of immigrants” had grown beyond social media. Within a week of that Oct. 14 tweet alleging Soros was funding&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2018/10/31/george-soros-and-migrant-caravan-how-lie-multiplied-online/1824633002/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a group of refugees seeking asylum</a>, far-right commentator Alex Jones broadcast the conspiracy on Infowars, to his audience of over&nbsp;<a href="https://www.statesman.com/business/20180813/bans-dont-seem-to-be-lessening-reach-of-alex-jones-infowars" style="text-decoration-line: none;">1 million daily visitors</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conspiracy grew from there, with the video or related images popping up on nearly every platform. Eventually the conspiracy reached&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2018/10/31/george-soros-and-migrant-caravan-how-lie-multiplied-online/1824633002/https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2018/10/31/george-soros-and-migrant-caravan-how-lie-multiplied-online/1824633002/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hundreds of thousands of potential viewers</a>&nbsp;– including the men who would allegedly become the mail bomber and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-gab-tree-of-life/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">synagogue</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.is/1gI5n" style="text-decoration-line: none;">shooter</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two men may never have known of each other or the other’s plans. But their actions intertwined with a viciously networked conspiracy theory.</font></p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Connecting to mainstream media</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Once there is enough social media attention on a topic or claim, it may be&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/profit-not-free-speech-governs-media-companies-decisions-on-controversy-101292" style="text-decoration-line: none;">covered in more traditional news outlets</a>. That can spread the idea even more widely, and lend credence to inaccuracies and lies. Politicians may also notice online discussion and join in, as U.S. Sen.&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1058363039047733249" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ted Cruz</a>&nbsp;and a clerk for Texas’&nbsp;<a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/harris-county-clerk-scrubs-soros-conspiracies-from-site-will-other-gop-leaders-follow-suit/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Harris County</a>&nbsp;did with the purported Soros connection to the migrant caravan.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conspiratorial ideas often become an&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/@MediaManipulation/unite-the-right-how-youtubes-recommendation-algorithm-connects-the-u-s-far-right-9f1387ccfabd" style="text-decoration-line: none;">echo chamber</a>, in which each post draws more attention than the last, generating stronger outrage and escalating the conspiracy</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The average user who looks at a conspiratorial meme may not believe its message, but many users may.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Even people who don’t believe it initially might&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/unbelievable-news-read-it-again-and-you-might-think-its-true-69602" style="text-decoration-line: none;">come to assume it’s true</a>&nbsp;after seeing an idea several times from different sources. Still others might spread the conspiracy just for amusement in the distress of others.</span></font></p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Demonize, divide, conquer</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Memes, tweets and other forms of propaganda are designed to rile up constituents. Scaring voters with purported invasions was one way to infuriate voters as they headed to vote in the midterm elections.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/living-conspiracy-theory-trump-america-181029120503612.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">has historically</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-conspiracy-theories-2016-5" style="text-decoration-line: none;">spread</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/04/politics/donald-trump-star-of-david-tweet-explained/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">far-right</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://time.com/5356443/trump-conspiracy-theories-qanon/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">conspiracy</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/13/politics/donald-trump-conspiracy-theories/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">theories</a>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/pants-fire/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">little regard</a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-telling-worse-lies-serial-liar-fact-checking-journalist-alleges-1200769" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the truth</a>. Just before the election – after the mail bomb attempts and the tragedy in Pittsburgh&nbsp;<b>– Trump himself&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-wouldnt-be-surprised-if-democratic-megadonor-george-soros-is-funding-the-migrant-caravan/2018/11/01/9ea196a0-ddcf-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">explicitly repeated</a>&nbsp;the conspiracy about Soros.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When anti-Semitic, racist and xenophobic ideas spread through social media networks, they can infect a host of mainstream information sources – and make&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/fear-more-than-hate-feeds-online-bigotry-and-real-world-violence-106988" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fear and violence more likely</a>. That broadens the picture of a dangerous world from which people need protection. Fear appeals of this sort can influence voting, and even push people to take matters into their own violent hands. Until social media platforms or federal agencies find ways to diminish extremism, the proliferation of far-right memes, videos and texts will continue to imperil the citizenry.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/heather-woods-448246" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heather Woods</a>, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technology,&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/kansas-state-university-1150" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Kansas State University</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/leslie-hahner-586382" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Leslie Hahner</a>, Associate Professor of Communication,&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/baylor-university-1084" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Baylor University</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This article is republished from&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Conversation</a>&nbsp;under a Creative Commons license. Read the&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/how-mainstream-media-helps-weaponize-far-right-conspiracy-theories-106223" style="text-decoration-line: none;">original article</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-evangelicals-slam-soros-for-killing-america-ask-progressive-christians-to-repent/" title="Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">NOVEMBER 2, 2018 12:32 PM</a></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Right-Wing Evangelicals Accuse ‘Globalist’ Soros of ‘Killing America’</font></font></li><li class="full-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></font><p class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" line-height="line-height"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/is-visa-subsidiary-alex-jones-last-refuge/" title="Is Visa Subsidiary Alex Jones’ Last Refuge?" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/is-visa-subsidiary-alex-jones-last-refuge/" title="Is Visa Subsidiary Alex Jones’ Last Refuge?" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/is-visa-subsidiary-alex-jones-last-refuge/" title="Is Visa Subsidiary Alex Jones’ Last Refuge?" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/is-visa-subsidiary-alex-jones-last-refuge/" title="Is Visa Subsidiary Alex Jones’ Last Refuge?" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/is-visa-subsidiary-alex-jones-last-refuge/" title="Is Visa Subsidiary Alex Jones’ Last Refuge?" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/michael-savage-kavanaugh-opposition-proof-of-communist-revolution-in-america/" title="Michael Savage: Kavanaugh Opposition Proof of Communist Revolution in America" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">OCTOBER 10, 2018 3:57 PM</a></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Michael Savage: Kavanaugh Opposition Proof of Communist Revolution in America</font></font></li><li class="full-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 1em 1em 0.5em;" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></font><p class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" line-height="line-height"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-channels-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-to-explain-kavanaugh-opposition/" title="Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">OCTOBER 5, 2018 2:28 PM</a></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Donald Trump Channels Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory to Explain Kavanaugh Opposition</font></font></li></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cory bb</font></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Washington Post, Eli Saslow profiles Christopher Blair, a 46-year-old "liberal" hoaxter whose Facebook group, "America’s Last Line of Defense," is full of far-right hoaxes that he creates and then reveals, in order to humiliate the Trumpist "taters" who spread them; and Shirley Chapian, a 76-year-old retiree who believes and repeats all the racist hoaxes Saslow creates and will not disbelieve them, even when Saslow reveals the gag.&nbsp;</span><a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/11/20/pahrump-for-trump.html" class="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Read the rest</a></font></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rww</font></font></font></div><div style=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ardent pro-Trump commentator and online&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/bill-mitchell-weaves-qanon-into-his-own-wacky-conspiracy-theory/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">conspiracy theorist</a>&nbsp;Bill Mitchell declared on his “YourVoice America” program&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvHBXut0a34" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">yesterday</a>&nbsp;that the Department of Justice should investigate whether Antifa is responsible for starting the wildfires that have devastated California, despite admitting that he literally has no evidence to support this assertion.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Mitchell said that while nobody knows what caused these fires, it is possible that they could be the result of “domestic terrorism.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“Now who is the only domestic terrorist organization that we know of in America?” he asked, rhetorically. “Antifa. Who loves to light things on fire? Antifa. So we have to ask our questions: Is it possible that Antifa is behind the California fires?”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“It isn’t too much of a coincidence that after decades and decades and decades of relatively low amounts of fires, we have all of these simultaneous fires going on in California just as Democrats take back Congress,” Mitchell said. “I am willing to bet one of the first major legislations that come out of the Democrat House will be climate change legislation—based on what? The California fires. Started by who? I wonder. I wonder. It’s all too convenient by half.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“People say, ‘What evidence do you have that Antifa started this?’ Nothing,” Mitchell continued. “I have no evidence. I’m not accusing them. I’m just asking if it’s possible. It is something that we should consider because if Antifa is, in fact, a domestic terrorist organization and this is, in fact, a terrorist act, we must ask ourselves, ‘Is Antifa involved in this?'”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“The FBI, the DOJ should look into whether they are involved in that because nobody knows who started this,” Mitchell declared. “This is not some wild, fire-bomb-throwing on my part, I just want to know because inquiring minds want to know.”</font></font></font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rww</font></font></font></div><div style=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During his&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mark-taylor-stands-by-his-red-tsunami-prophecy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">recent appearance</a>&nbsp;on Greg Hunter’s “USAWatchdog”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1kcgMRYOEY" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">program</a>, so-called “<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-trump-prophecies-mark-taylors-demon-filled-predictions-for-the-us/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">firefighter prophet</a>” and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mark-taylor-hurricanes-will-be-created-to-suppress-pro-trump-voter-turnout/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">radical</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mark-taylor-freemasons-and-illuminati-are-using-a-special-frequency-to-change-dna-and-make-people-hate-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">conspiracy theorist</a>&nbsp;Mark Taylor warned that former attorney general Eric Holder is delivering secret “mind control” codes to the public via his Twitter account.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recently, Holder changed the banner image on&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ericholder?lang=en" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">his Twitter account</a>&nbsp;to feature a photo of him standing beside John F. Kennedy’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery, which both Taylor and Hunter are interpreting as Holder sending a message to President Trump.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“He changed his Twitter background to you see him standing there with his arms crossed in front of JFK’s grave site and he’s got his hands together with his two fingers, like he is giving a code,” Taylor said. “People aren’t stupid.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Do you think he’s giving the order to have the same thing happen to Donald Trump that happened to JFK?” asked Hunter.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s not looking good, let’s put it that way,” responded Taylor. “It looks like there is something being given off in the spirit by what he is doing. These guys have code words, they have symbolism, they don’t have to come right out and say something to activate these people.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taylor went on to assert that people who have carried out mass shootings have often been under CIA “mind control” and that Holder is attempting to “activate” more of them to target Trump with his Twitter image.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“These guys are totally demonic when it comes to this stuff,” he said. “They’re using the mind control, they are using the activation codes to activate these guys.”</font></font></font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/soy-boy-conspiracy-theory-why-alt-right-believes-soybeans-are-part-vast-left-wing">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/soy-boy-conspiracy-theory-why-alt-right-believes-soybeans-are-part-vast-left-wing</a></font></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nutritionists have had many debates about the health benefits of soy products; some are very pro-soy, others are critical of it. Their debates are scientific in nature, but on the alt-right, soy is being discussed in stridently political terms—and one of the leading<b> alt-right conspiracy theories is the “soy boy” conspiracy, which claims that soy products are a vast&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theringer.com/tech/2017/11/3/16598872/alt-right-lingo-soy-boy" style="text-decoration-line: none;">left-wing conspiracy</a>&nbsp;designed to emasculate men and turn their bodies estrogenic.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The alt-right has an abundance of vocabulary that one doesn’t find in more traditional conservatism. In 2018, the term “soy boy” is as common on the alt-right as “cuckservative” (right-wingers who aren’t right-wing enough) and “snowflake” (a hypersensitive liberal or progressive). “Soy boy” isn’t a term that one typically encounters in more traditional conservative outlets like the National Review and the Weekly Standard, but alt-right outlets—from Alex Jones’ Infowars to the misogynist Return of Kings website—have been a frequent source of anti-soy conspiracy theories.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones has long been promoting conspiracy theories involving government operatives and “The New World Order” using products to turn male bodies estrogenic. In 2013, Jones argued that juice boxes were feminizing male children, declaring, “After you’re done drinking your little juices, you’re ready to go out and have a baby. You’re ready to put makeup on. You’re ready to wear a short skirt….You’re ready to put lipstick on.”[hayes frogs atz?]</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones has asserted that left-wing male commentators are often “latte addicts” and “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFOVDim2xcc" style="text-decoration-line: none;">soy addicts</a>” who lack masculinity—and earlier this year, Jones’ colleague, Paul Joseph Watson posted an eight-minute video describing the alleged attributes of a “soy boy.”</font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><interaction data-token="5b96855f8198b4e625350260" data-context="true" data-tags="" data-fallback="true" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></font></font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watson asked, “What is it about soy that turns men into such spineless wimps? Soybeans contain high amounts of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kNlPzN0m1Q" style="text-decoration-line: none;">phytoestrogens</a>: organic compounds that mimic the female hormone estrogen in the human body. This reduces testosterone and lowers male sperm count.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watson elaborated, “Men with high estrogen take on feminine traits. They find it harder to handle stress. They become less assertive. They become low-energy. Their voices get higher, their genitals shrink.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Watson’s video, “environmental estrogens” are causing males to develop female-like breasts—and one of the most prominent “environmental estrogens” is soy. The use of soy baby formulas, Watson said, suggests that “rather than people with already preexisting left-wing beliefs being attracted to vegan-style tofu soy diets, we’re actually creating an army of soy boys from birth.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alt-right blogger Mike Cernovich is not only a leading proponent of the bizarre Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which in 2016, claimed that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring in a Washington, DC pizzeria—he is also a strident critic of soy products, arguing that there is a correlation between liberal and progressive beliefs and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.racked.com/2018/6/12/17442336/skin-care-alex-jones-mike-cernovich-joe-rogan-serums" style="text-decoration-line: none;">use of soy products</a>. And “soy boy” is one of his favorite insults.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roosh Valizadeh’s misogynist Return of Kings website has also been the source of numerous anti-soy diatribes, and on April 1, 2018, Valizadeh devoted an entire article to “soy face”—an open-mouth smile the alt-right believes is specific to “soy boys.” Valizadeh wrote, “There is no doubt that decreasing testosterone levels among American men are causing them to behave in childish and feminine ways. This is most clearly displayed in the ‘<a href="https://www.returnofkings.com/165452/36-soy-boy-pictures-that-reveal-an-epidemic-of-feminized-men" style="text-decoration-line: none;">soy boy face</a>’ pose that combines the feelings of excitement and fear.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In one on his anti-soy videos, Watson focused on “soy face” exclusively—arguing that because “soy boys” have lower testosterone, it shows in their&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az352YaZNM0&t=19s" style="text-decoration-line: none;">facial expressions</a>. Watson declared, “Look a little closer and see what soy face truly represents: weakness and fear….The globalist chemical warfare program to make men effeminate so they vote more like women and generally vote for left-wing policies and big government is still in full swing. But now that the testosterone-decimating effects of soy and plastics are being exposed, the reign of the soy boys is coming to an end.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Health-related websites will continue to debate the merits of soy products, doing so in a non-political way. But to the alt-right’s conspiracy buffs, the use of soy is very much a political issue—and nothing says “giant left-wing conspiracy” like the abundance of mythical “soy boys.”</font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Some of the world’s most respected geologists and scientists reckon humans have had such a profound impact on the Earth that we’ve now moved out of the Holocene and into the Anthropocene.</div><div>
</div><div>It’s not official. But it’s close.</div><div>
</div><div>Dropping nuclear bombs and burning billions of tonnes of fossil fuels will do that to a planet, as will clearing swaths of forests to make way for food production and supermarket car parks and the like.</div><div>
</div><div>The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age</div><div>&nbsp;Read more</div><div>
</div><div>That’s all in the real world though, and sometimes you might get the horrible, chilling idea that when it comes to the production of our thoughts and ideas, that’s not the place a lot of us live anymore.</div><div>
</div><div>So I’d like to also propose the idea of an&nbsp;<b>impending<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> new epoch – the Trumpocene – that in the spirit of the era itself is based solely on a few thoughts held loosely together with hyperlinks and a general feeling of malaise.</span></b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the Trumpocene, the epoch-defining impacts of climate change are nothing more than a conspiracy. Even if these impacts are real, then they’re probably good for us.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The era is named, of course, for the phenomenon that is Donald Trump, the Republican pick for US president whose candidacy has been defined by a loose grasp of facts, jingoistic posturing, populist rhetoric, his amazing hair and his treatment of women.</div><div>
</div><div>So what are the things that might define the Trumpocene?</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Is it the point at which large numbers of&nbsp;<b>people started to reject the views of large groups of actual experts</b>&nbsp;– people with university qualifications and things – in exchange for the views of anyone who agrees with them? (Brexit, anyone?)</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">How about that point when a critical mass of people have become convinced that they can Google their way out of the laws of physics?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Let’s go and dig for evidence of the Trumpocene.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A few months ago, Trump gave an interview to polemicist and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who could be the angriest person on the internet.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jones has a regular online radio and TV show called Infowars that has expanded beyond being a vehicle for Jones’s cult personality to include regular news bulletins and a line in&nbsp;<b>“alternative” health therapies.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>Las Vegas shooting was 'false flag' operation, InfoWars founder claims</div><div>&nbsp;Read more</div><div><b>Jones thinks that climate change is a scam being forced on us by the United Nations, which, in turn, is a totalitarian regime and kingpin of a new world order.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The a fervent Trump supporter has told his viewers that the both US president, Barack Obama, and the Democrat nominee, Hilary Clinton, were “literal demons” who smelt of sulphur. I kid you not.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In Australia, we have a senator who similarly sees climate change as a thing made up by the UN. Our top-rating radio host, Alan Jones (no relation), has said climate science is “witchcraft”.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Now, before I go on, there’s a prevailing view (often expressed in the comments of this blog) that climate science deniers and oddballs like Alex Jones should be ignored. In some ways, those commenters are right.</div><div>
</div><div>But then you look at the popularity of people like Jones and see that, to increasing numbers of people, they are not people to be ignored, but are paragons of fearless truth-telling.</div><div>
</div><div>There’s a demographic to which rhetoric from people like Jones and, more broadly, Trump, appeals.</div><div>
</div><div>Jones’s YouTube account has about 1.6 million subscribers and is growing. He has 1.2m likes on his Facebook account. His website, according to SimilarWeb, was getting 27m pageviews a month back in February. Now it’s at 36m.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Earlier this year Jones snagged a rare interview with the conservative blogger Matt Drudge. Jones and Drudge expressed mutual admiration.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Drudge’s news and opinion aggregator website, the Drudge Report, is a genuine web phenomenon and considered hugely influential.</div><div>
</div><div>With about 1.37bn page views a month, the Drudge Report is the second-ranked media site in the United States — 600m views behind msn.com but 300m ahead of Google’s news page.</div><div>
</div><div>The Drudge Report also tends to link to news items that disparage any action to cut greenhouse gas emissions.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There’s now a whole media ecosystem that climate science denialism can exist inside, where there’s little scrutiny of the views of deniers. US-based sites like the Drudge Report, Infowars, Breitbart and Daily Caller are part of that ecosystem.</span></div><div>
</div><div>As the Guardian’s Roy Greenslade notes,<b>&nbsp;Breitbart “has the dubious honour of challenging Fox News’s status as America’s most influential conservative media outlet”.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Not only is the outlet having influence, but its executive chairman, Stephen Bannon, is running Trump’s campaign.</div><div>
</div><div>Breitbart too is growing its audience, according to those SimilarWeb statistics. In February 2016 the site registered 89m page views. In August, it was up to 143m.</div><div>
</div><div>Conspiracy central: the activists painting Clinton as a sick, terrorist-friendly killer</div><div>&nbsp;Read more</div><div><b>Another characteristic of the Trumpocene might be the heightened levels of hubris combined with triumphant rhetoric and the tendency towards insults.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Breitbart writer James Delingpole, for example, rejects the evidence of human-caused climate change. Last week he described a Royal Society fellow and climate scientist as a “puffed-up missy”.</span></div><div>
</div><div>“What a bunch of disgraceful, money-grubbing, charlatans the climate alarmists are,” wrote Delingpole, before then trying to link “climate alarmists” with child abusers.</div><div>
</div><div>For a while, maybe the Trumpocene and the Anthropocene can coexist.</div><div>
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</div><div>Conspiracy websites and hyperpartisan media outlets are building huge online audiences who want to hear climate change is a hoax</div><div>
</div><div>&nbsp;@readfearn</div><div>Tue 6&nbsp;<b>Dec 2016</b>&nbsp;01.52 EST Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 12.08&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>&nbsp;The US president-elect, Donald Trump, who has praised the conspiracy theorist and founder of Infowars.com, Alex Jones. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images</div><div>Back in December 2015, Donald Trump gave a 30-minute live interview to the website Infowars.com and its combustible leader, Alex Jones.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“Your reputation is amazing and I will not let you down,” said Trump,</b> who, at the time, was leading in most polls for the Republican presidential nomination.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jones, a fervent Trump supporter, is a conspiracy theorist writ large. He insists there is “iron clad” evidence that the 11 September terrorist attacks in the US were an “inside job”.</span></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>How a dubious tweet about illegal votes found its way to Trump's megaphone</b></div><div>&nbsp;Read more</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jones has also said that in 1996 governments deployed a worldwide program to secretly put chemicals into the fuel of aircraft to poison people. These “chemtrails” don’t hurt the “globalists” though, because Jones says they have a “special detox”.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Oh, and Jones also thinks climate change is a hoax.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Climate change is an issue he covers regularly on his shows, where he has interviewed climate science deniers such as Christopher Monckton (a familiar name to Australians given his multiple speaking tours here), Marc Morano and James Delingpole.</span></div><div>
</div><div>While it’s easy to dismiss the conspiracy culture pushed by Jones as pseudoscientific rubbish, it is not so easy to dismiss the size of the audience he has been building. Jones’s website gets 57m page views per month – double where it was six months ago.</div><div>
</div><div>According to analytics site Social Blade, the Alex Jones YouTube channel has 1.8m subscribers and just racked up its one billionth (that’s not a typo) video view. (For comparison, the BBC News YouTube channel has 992,000 subscribers.)</div><div>
</div><div><b>Jones’s Infowars site is part of an ecosystem of hyperpartisan media outlets </b>that insist climate change is a hoax. Like Jones, that ecosystem is rapidly building a receptive online audience.</div><div>
</div><div>Those sites can now reach hundreds of millions of people with headlines insisting that human-caused climate change is a hoax, that global warming has stopped or that adding CO2 to the atmosphere is good.</div><div>
</div><div><b>One example. The most popular climate change story across social media in the past six months was not some diligently researched piece from one of the many very good science journalists writing for major news organisations around the world</b>.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rather, the story claimed that thousands of scientists had come forward to declare that climate change was a hoax. The writer was a guy running a website in Los Angeles who worked for eight years for the UK conspiracy theorist David Icke.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Icke thinks the moon might be some sort of spaceship, that the world is controlled by a globalist illuminati and, yes, that climate change is a hoax. Icke is a regular guest on Infowars.</div><div>
</div><div>Infowars will often source material from Breitbart – the website that used to be run by Trump’s campaign chairman and soon-to-be chief strategist, Steve Bannon.</div><div>
</div><div>Many of Breitbart’s most popular climate change items are written by Delingpole, a British polemicist. Guess what he thinks of climate change?</div><div>
</div><div>Given that climate science denial has become a part of the Republican party’s identity, it was hardly surprising that the GOP-led House of Representatives committee on science should tweet a link to a Breitbart climate story written by Delingpole (a story based on a deeply misleading article in the UK’s Daily Mail).</div><div>
</div><div>Breitbart is also building its audience. According to data from SimilarWeb, the site now gets 168m page views per month, doubling its reach in the past six months.</div><div>
</div><div>The Drudge Report – the wildly popular conservative-leaning news aggregator site with 1.7bn page views a month – also helps drive traffic to sites such as Infowars and Breitbart. Its founder, Matt Drudge, was another recent guest of Jones.</div><div>
</div><div>Since Trump won the US election, there has been much talk of the influence of “fake news”, with Facebook in particular identified as a key conduit. That encompasses news that is blatantly fabricated but also lounge room content farms that pass themselves off as news. Then there are the hyperpartisan opinion sites.</div><div>
</div><div>I’m happy to admit the online growth and reach of climate science denialists and conspiracy theorists terrifies me. Why?</div><div>
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</div><div>LeBron James will not stay at Trump-branded hotel in New York</div><div>&nbsp;Read more]</div><div>
</div><div><b>The problem is not that these sites exist but that not enough people seem to know the difference between actual news, fake news, partisan opinion and conspiratorial bullshit. One of those people is the president-elect of the United States.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Either that, or people don’t even care to differentiate between fake and real, especially if what they read taps into their own prejudices.</div><div>
</div><div>There is a concerted attempt to cut sensible climate policy off at the knees by building a popular online movement against the science itself.</div><div>
</div><div>For decades, the fossil fuel industry and so-called “free market” ideologues at conservative thinktanks have misled the public on the science and the risks of climate change.</div><div>
</div><div>Now, the decades of material produced by that climate science denial machinery is finding a new audience. Those talking points are being reheated and screamed, in FULL CAPS.</div><div>
</div><div>So what’s the answer? No one seems to know but much appears to be in the hands of Google and Facebook.</div><div>
</div><div>Other than that, a crash course in critical thinking and recognising climate science denial brought to you by the illuminati might be the order of the day.</div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><b>Trump's potential science adviser William Happer: hanging around with conspiracy theorists</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div>Graham Readfearn</div><div>The Princeton atomic physicist is no climate scientist – and he’s pushing the same old denier myths</div><div>
</div><div>&nbsp;@readfearn</div><div>Mon 20&nbsp;<b>Feb 2017&nbsp;</b>23.14 EST Last modified on Thu 5 Jul 2018 16.52 EDT</div><div>&nbsp;William Happer: who is Trump’s likely science adviser? – video report</div><div>
</div><div>William Happer is a physicist at Princeton University – one of those US academic institutions with brand recognition for academic excellence that travels the globe.</div><div>
</div><div>Happer is well known for his contrarian views (that’s the polite term) on human-caused climate change.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So when it emerged last week that the professor might seriously be in the running to be President Donald Trump’s science adviser, that Princeton tag no doubt added an air of authority to his opinions.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In short, Happer thinks more CO2 will only be good for the planet – putting him at odds with science academies around the world.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump's likely science adviser calls climate scientists 'glassy-eyed cult'</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Read more</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“There’s a whole area of climate so-called science that is really more like a cult,” Happer told the Guardian. “It’s like Hare Krishna or something like that. They’re glassy-eyed and they chant. It will potentially harm the image of all science.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Happer has also compared the “demonisation” of carbon dioxide to the “demonisation of poor Jews under Hitler” – because a Nazi reference will always get you noticed.</span></div><div>
</div><div>But here’s the thing — the first of many to note about Happer. First, he is not, by any stretch, an expert on climate change science.</div><div>
</div><div>Happer’s record of getting scientific papers published in leading journals on climate change science is at, or very close to, zero. Simply, he knows a lot about some stuff, but he is not a climate scientist.</div><div>
</div><div>While he has a&nbsp;<b>distinguished career as an atomic physicist, previously serving the administration of George HW Bush as a science director,&nbsp;</b>the 77-year-old’s views on climate science are outnumbered by all the credible evidence, all the credible science agencies and are also being laughed at by the Earth’s thermometers and its melting ice sheets and glaciers.</div><div>
</div><div>Prof Michael Oppenheimer has scores of articles on climate science in leading journals going back to the mid-1990s. He’s a climate scientist … at Princeton.</div><div>
</div><div>So what does Oppenheimer think of his colleague?</div><div>
</div><div>“With respect to climate science and scientists,” Oppenheimer told me by email,&nbsp;<b>“[Happer] is not only unknowledgeable but appears to have become unmoored.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>Ouch. But then, maybe Oppenheimer has glassy eyes?</div><div>
</div><div>Happer has laid out his thoughts on climate change in some detail in an ongoing&nbsp;<b>Focused Civil Dialogue (my irony meter just exploded</b>) with the Australian climate scientist Prof David Karoly.</div><div>
</div><div>While Happer’s contribution seems technical, it’s the same parade of zombie talking points that actual climate scientists have been dealing with for years.</div><div>
</div><div>Happer says CO2 levels and temperatures have been much higher in the past and that life “flourished” under these conditions many millions of years ago.</div><div>
</div><div>He doesn’t mention that during those times sea levels were probably several metres – sometimes well over 10 metres – higher than they are today. If that’s the world you want to advocate, then it’s time to call the removal guys for most of the world’s major coastal cities.</div><div>
</div><div>The climate scientist Dr Nerilie Abram, of Australian National University, specialises in the climate of the ancient past. She told me:</div><div>
</div><div>Warm periods in Earth’s past tell us a lot about how our climate works and what we can expect if we don’t act to halt current climate change. The last time that temperatures were similar to now, this caused parts of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets to slowly melt and sea level globally ended up six to nine metres higher than now. If we go back 3 million years – the last time carbon dioxide levels were at today’s level – sea level was probably around 10 to 40 metres higher. Life on Earth might not be fazed by those numbers or even higher ones, but for human civilisations they would be catastrophic.</div><div>
</div><div>Happer also rolls out that mouldy old chestnut that CO2 is just food for plants, but ignores the research on the impacts that higher concentrations of CO2 will have on our global food supply.</div><div>
</div><div>Research into some staple crops such as rice, wheat and sorghum, for example, finds that they end up with less protein when CO2 is at higher concentrations. That’s before you worry about how food crops will cope with droughts and heatwaves.</div><div>
</div><div>At a conference in December Happer said his “main concern” was that climate change was “likely to damage public perceptions of science”.</div><div>
</div><div>If Happer is concerned about the reputation of science, then he’s picking some very odd places to hang around – that conference being one of them.</div><div>
</div><div>The Arizona gathering was organised by&nbsp;<b>Freedom Force International – a group led by the famed conspiracy theorist G Edward Griffin.</b>&nbsp;He fits right in with the booming culture of conspiracy that’s growing big audiences online.</div><div>
</div><div>Among many other things, Griffin has said there is “no such thing” as HIV and that human-caused climate change is a hoax.</div><div>
</div><div>Griffin also promotes conspiracies around “chemtrails”. Just punch that word into your favourite search engine for hours of family fun (don’t actually do that).</div><div>
</div><div>To summarise, there’s a plan to spray the atmosphere with chemicals added to planes to poison everyone and “they” are using weather modification as a weapon.</div><div>
</div><div>Griffin has said “somebody is spending a lot of money and effort to spray the planet” and that this is probably some international effort.</div><div>
</div><div>Also appearing at the conference was the British hereditary peer and climate science denier Lord Christopher Monckton, who likes to say he was appointed as a reviewer of the last big UN intergovernmental panel on climate change report without mentioning that, literally, you need no qualifications and can “appoint” yourself.</div><div>
</div><div>Happer’s speech to the conference isn’t yet online but an interview he gave at the venue after is.</div><div>
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</div><div>William Happer gives an interview on the sidelines of a<b>&nbsp;Freedom Force International conference in Arizona in December]</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div>He goes over the same ground. CO2 is really awesome and life would be much better if there was a lot more of it.</div><div>
</div><div>“I don’t think there are any cons to CO2 … we are really in a CO2 famine,” he says. “My main concern is that it’s likely to damage public perceptions of science. I am hoping that I and other scientists can persuade the public that we are not all for sale.”</div><div>
</div><div>I’m struggling to understand how someone concerned with the reputation of science would want to lend his name, and the name of Princeton University, to a conference organised by conspiracy theorists.</div><div>
</div><div>Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science</div><div>&nbsp;Read more</div><div>This is also the bit when we mention that Happer was caught in a sting by Greenpeace activists in 2015, when he offered to write a report on the benefits of carbon dioxide for a fake fossil fuel client while avoiding any need to disclose the funding’s source.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Happer asked that rather than pay him, the fake lobbyists should instead pay the CO2 Coalition – a climate science denial group based in the US. Tax documents list Happer as a director and president.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He has also given evidence in a court case on behalf of the coal company Peabody Energy where he similarly asked that his fee go to the CO2 Coalition. He laid these facts out in emails released by Greenpeace, stating that the coalition did not pay him any fees or salary.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Remembering Happer’s dislike of science being “for sale”, it’s noteworthy that his CO2 Coalition colleague Patrick Moore was paid last year by a major European coal lobby organisation to give a presentation in Strasbourg telling the audience we should “celebrate CO2”.</b></div><div>
</div><div>No doubt Happer would argue that money does not influence the views of people like Moore, though he does say that it influences actual climate scientists who get research grants from universities and governments. Go figure.</div><div>
</div><div>Whether or not Happer gets the gig as Trump’s science adviser remains to be seen. But given the climate science deniers and fossil fuel advocates who Trump has already employed, it seems Happer will fit right in.</div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Along with&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4QQ6GaCZnfClpebFy3PusqCqhKgHKSKKRlXdHeKgCZFRLvhJ_X3u2wy0_cL7D0Mk1LFgvb6l4NV1DKpMY3hJFbx7tHhUeSAQmzfSPAPscnKDl-0dTuWQIs7Oj9w1m3wYDE&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=930weekly&n=17&v=1444" style="">predictable attacks</a>, false claims and conspiracy theories were promoted across outlets like 4chan and Infowars, as well as by conservative media figureheads, such as Laura Ingraham and Erick Erickson.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong /></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4T6XYvSOgeSg2MTaAwk5bMAyaCIliHX1jSUj9UhMT3b0FWFCBGKTjXR3VZshw5IrytT24Du5e-ML9C531PjaGa4p-pG06rFJ0fL8y1d1AmFKHfJybEZSsPyaRIiLKd8riPLpF8g7RnxVF-s16vD85hL&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=930weekly&n=18&v=1444" style="">quick rundown of the top conspiracies</a>&nbsp;conservatives are spreading:<strong /></font></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></p><ol style=""><li dir="ltr" style=""><p dir="ltr" style=""><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Right-wing media figures attacked Christine Blasey Ford based on student reviews of a different professor with a similar name</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin, right-wing blogger Jim Hoft, and others highlighted student reviews of the wrong Professor Ford in an absurd attempt to discredit her accusation against Kavanaugh.</span></font></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p dir="ltr"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing websites and media figures pushed a conspiracy theory that Ford’s accusation was motivated by revenge for her parents’ home foreclosure. Right-wing <b>bloggers Hoft and Erick Erickson</b> repeated a conspiracy theory that Ford reported Kavanaugh for assault because his mother, also a judge, presided over a foreclose of Ford’s childhood home. But Kavanaugh’s mother had actually dismissed the foreclosure case after Ford’s parents worked out an agreement with their lender, and Ford’s parents still own the home.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p dir="ltr"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pro-Trump outlets fabricated a connection between Ford and Fusion GPS to discredit her accusation. Right-wing websites and social media trolls smeared Ford over her brother Ralph Blasey’s work at a law firm that did legal work for Fusion GPS, a company connected to the Trump/Russia investigation. His work at the law firm ended six years before Fusion GPS was even founded.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p dir="ltr"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rush Limbaugh and other conservative media spread a fake claim from a serial hoaxer that Ford similarly accused Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.</b> Right-wing media figures including Rush Limbaugh repeated a made-up claim by serial hoaxer Josh Cornett that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was reluctant to share a letter Ford wrote with Feinstein’s colleagues because Ford sent a similar letter about Gorsuch last year during his confirmation hearings.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style=""><p dir="ltr" style=""><strong><strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Infowars’ Alex Jones falsely identified a high school yearbook photo of a girl wearing a miniskirt as Ford and called her “captain of the sluts.” Jones and his website smeared Ford over excerpts from high school yearbooks of Ford’s school, calling her a “hussy.”</font></strong></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p dir="ltr"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative media figures&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs329-orm6gU4hmXIvGP9G5gXCAPMkGy16uIrXYKe8WyrUqax7D7My9ct4ldRQfTec8vQOY9W1d2jZqrV1q1ivdeeG7fV-k25I5qA8Q5uD79ie_Nn1-0J0tOcj2PNTinBp-OcG7QOwRjSF9gwGlSyLmkrAmfR3AqN9SiDdBxvXF1NhqA&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=930weekly&n=19&v=1444" style="">embraced</a>&nbsp;the bizarre theory that Ford misidentified her attacker, who they claimed was really Kavanaugh’s doppelganger.&nbsp;Fox News, Erick Erickson,&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;columnist Ross Douthat, and The Gateway Pundit promoted a theory tweeted by conservative legal commentator Ed Whelan that Ford had confused Kavanaugh with another boy who Whelan claimed looked similar. Ford quickly and unequivocally debunked the claim of mistaken identity. By the next day, Whelan had deleted his Twitter thread and apologized for publicly naming the person he suggested was the actual assailant, calling it an “appalling” mistake.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style=""><p dir="ltr" style=""><strong><strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing columnists attacked the wrong Deborah Ramirez over a “tie to George Soros.” After Ramirez told The New Yorker that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party in college, right-wing columnists Quin Hillyer and John Fund claimed that Ramirez won a Soros Justice Fellowship in 2003 and criticized the magazine for leaving out that irrelevant detail -- but they identified the wrong Deborah Ramirez. Hillyer and Fund later apologized for mixing up the two women.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p dir="ltr"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News falsely claimed Republicans were kept in the dark about Ramirez’s report until it was published by The New Yorker. In its article on Ramirez’s report of sexual assault by Kavanaugh, The New Yorker wrote that “senior Republican staffers also learned of the allegation last week. … Soon after, Senate Republicans issued renewed calls to accelerate the timing of a committee vote.” But Fox News hosts instead pushed Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) evidence-free claim that Republican staff didn’t know about the report.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p dir="ltr"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News legal analyst tried to hurt Ramirez's credibility by falsely claiming The New York Times “refused to report” Ramirez’s accusations in an effort to hurt her credibility. Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano claimed Ramirez had “no credibility” with her accusation against Kavanaugh because “The New York Times refused to report her story.” But the Times didn’t publish an initial story on Ramirez’s accusation because she was already exclusively talking to The New Yorker.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p dir="ltr"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>TMZ and Erick Erickson pushed a false 8chan claim that Ford’s lawyer was pictured with Hillary Clinton during the presidential election</b>. They ran with the false claim that Ford’s lawyer Debra Katz was spotted in a photo with Hillary Clinton in August 2016. In fact, the woman in the photo was Clinton photographer Barbara Kinney.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p dir="ltr"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Photos falsely represented as Ford have been repeatedly shared online to discredit her. The fact-checking website Snopes.com has debunked several purported images of Ford that were spread online to discredit her. One of them was actually a photo of Ukrainian human rights activist Lyudmyla Kozlovska with philanthropist George Soros, whom the right-wing treats as a boogeyman. Another featured a photo of a half-naked woman pouring alcohol that is apparently from the 1960s, possibly before Ford was even born. Another smear attempt claimed that various women pictured at anti-Trump protests were Ford; one of them was identified as a woman named Liz Darner, while the other doesn’t “have much resemblance” to Ford, according to Snopes. The anti-choice outlet Life News and the conservative Daily Caller promoted the miscaptioned protest photos.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative media defenders of Kavanaugh&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4SmnnmkdzWs7WkU9p-ZMV8m77t0zEvYuB3VwxalGgQfEsQNQEqDtD9FwflUns6ZH7nsz21O7AxfBNaGd2_t8vJ7DLWjNhLAmokJ-mVYIvRtSb1oMbXr4Pv26gacBO-AyYu86b44Lt2wGh6i8cpT_gE&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=930weekly&n=20&v=1444" style="">attempted</a>&nbsp;to make hay over the fact that Ford didn’t know who paid for a polygraph exam she took. There is nothing unusual about lawyers paying for their client's polygraph test. It is the same process through which they, rather than the client, would typically select an expert witness for a legal proceeding and then later bill the client -- or not bill the client if the legal work was being done on a pro bono basis, as it is in this instance.</font></strong></strong></strong></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservatives&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4QOXzypLwGew1xRuAdX3U4iI7ylk-VTfMoo3cqD19KkU4utpXUrvr2o4CRSKk4-PddtVYxj624g1Y0itq-Kb-0Vml0tFq_N4IGNYy6YRuvgAwfmF1jFnlJmdcOO9WnfOCM4s19HraIRSrB5w-5HjAlXy_Giu_PiAcWPCRiBARt7zA&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=930weekly&n=21&v=1444" style="">claimed that</a>&nbsp;Ford's fear of flying discredited her. As Christine Blasey Ford testified, Rachel Mitchell, the prosecutor Republican committee members hired to ask questions on their behalf, asked Ford at length about the times she has flown on an airplane. Ford told senators that she finally decided to fly after some encouragement from her friends. It is simply&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=YqgukYA3Mrlri-dqG7I8ThNz_dVRYJw7L0CYDyTAJ_McmeMmi7p26_gprN7OkEKJlvnt48vkjFwZyv0Rr02wXw&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=930weekly&n=22&v=1444" style="">indisputably true</a>&nbsp;that people overcome their fears to do things regularly.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style=""><p dir="ltr" style=""><strong><strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative radio host and conspiracy theorist Michael Savage is promoting a&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4RjGF-rILVhb2WkPSq2MSMFBI0c_agjyM9EfeWHfRQLgru_ol4V49T0BDgSQLXZRk-XMM0xi04iuV-SONtzMvLHj9AoQPcZIB_mNPwrrXlL1n0gKqWI45QxTqvKN7g0NiLHu0omkMmtvLyTQRKheEOG&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=930weekly&n=23&v=1444" style="">rapidly spreading</a>&nbsp;conspiracy theory that professor Christine Blasey Ford has “deep” connections to the Central Intelligence Agency. Savage has met with Trump in the Oval Office and partied with him in Mar-a-Lago.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This entire phenomenon -- the outlandish false claims, the desperate&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4QQ6GaCZnfClpebFy3PusqCqhKgHKSKKRlXdHeKgCZFRLvhJ_X3u2wy0_cL7D0Mk1LFgvb6l4NV1DKpMY3hJFbx7tHhUeSAQmzfSPAPscnKDl-0dTuWQIs7Oj9w1m3wYDE&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=930weekly&n=24&v=1444" style="">attempts to smear women&nbsp;</a>coming forward to tell painful stories -- demonstrates that there is truly no low to which right-wing media figures won’t stoop. Trump’s media sycophants continue to wreak havoc on the lives of sexual assault survivors and their families by promoting blatant lies and fabrications.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></div><div><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">*</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div><div><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This year, the Republican candidate for governor in Georgia was decided in a special runoff election between Brian Kemp and Casey Cagle, the top two finishers in the Republican primary. Before the runoff election, Casey Cagle was secretly recorded talking about the craziness of the Georgia Republican primary. He said:</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The problem is in a primary—and you and I are just talking off-the-record frank—they don’t give a shit about those things. Okay. In the general election, they care about it. Okay. But they don’t care about it in a primary. This primary felt like it was who had the biggest gun, who had the biggest truck, and who could be the craziest.</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kemp quickly pounced on these remarks and used them to win the runoff by 40 points—which, ironically, validated Cagle’s remarks.</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Here in Ohio, I saw the same thing in our race for governor. The entire race was about&nbsp; who was the most conservative. Mary Taylor called Mike DeWine a “liberal” and DeWine said Taylor was a criminal, so “lock her up.</span>”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You’ve probably seen something similar in a race where you live. Conspiracy theorists are falling out of trees in Republican primaries.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So why is this going, on and what can we learn from it?&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Politicians are cowards</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Almost a year before the 2016 election, Devin Nunes spoke with The New Yorker about then-House Speaker John Boehner’s ouster.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nunes told the author that one of the biggest changes he’s seen since his arrival in 2002 is the&nbsp;<b>rise of online media outlets and for-profit groups that spread bad or even false information:</b></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>I used to spend ninety per cent of my constituent response time on people who call, e-mail, or send a letter, such as, ‘I really like this bill, H.R. 123,</b>’ and they really believe in it because they heard about it through one of the groups that they belong to, but their view was based on actual legislation.<b>&nbsp;Ten per cent were about ‘Chemtrails from airplanes are poisoning me’ to every other conspiracy theory that’s out there. And that has essentially flipped on its head.</b></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today, the calls and emails are 90 percent about the bad information and conspiracy theories, and only a small percentage are about things that are actually true.</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course today, we know Nunes as the point man from the House Intelligence Committee who keeps trying to push the lie that it was Hillary Clinton who actually colluded with Russia. Nunes is also a global warming denier even as Fresno, the largest city in his California district, experienced a record consecutive days with highs that topped 100 degrees.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nunes is now one of the leaders in disinformation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because Fox News and other right-wing conspiracy media outlets have made him famous. His fame has brought in $7.4 million in campaign donations, the most of any California Republican. This is also three to seven times any previous amount he’s raised.</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So … conspiracy away!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In three years Nunes went from Freedom Party critic to one of the lead conspiracy theorists in Congress. Along the way, he threw out every principle he once might have had.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He’s not a leader. He’s a Fox News puppet.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Devin Nunes calls his own paper, The Sacramento Bee, ‘fake news’&nbsp;</font></b></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s important to understand that this is not just true for Nunes, but for most politicians</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s easy for liberals to see this with Devin Nunes because he’s a lying conspiracy theorist Republican.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The mistake we often make, however, is seeing Democratic politicians differently. They’re not conspiracy theorists like Nunes. But they also don’t tend to be leaders like we want them to be. They have to get elected, too. So they will do what it takes to get elected.&nbsp;</b>They will champion causes that are hot-button issues in the media. They will talk about what they think they can talk about in order to win. If an issue is going to hurt them politically, they may avoid it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The simple model for what they’re doing looks like this:</font></b></div><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></div><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Social change -> political change -> policy change</font></b></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Social change is cultural change.&nbsp;</span>It is what is popular in the public mind. Political change is winning elections. And policy change is when politicians write legislation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Politicians will do what those who get them elected want.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If we look at someone saying this on the Democratic side, it looks like Barack Obama in 2009 talking about health care. Obama took a page out of President Franklin Roosevelt’s playbook.&nbsp;<b>FDR</b>&nbsp;once met with a group of activists who wanted support for new, bold legislation. After listening to their arguments, he then said, “You’ve convinced me<b>. Now go out and make me do it.”....</b></font></span></div></div></div><div><div><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></strong></strong></strong></div><div><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ggl gamed SEO (data void, suggested searches)</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">excellent for pushing conspiracy theory</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Proselytizing Conspiracy Theories</b></span></font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's not clear who first asked whether or not the<b>&nbsp;massacre at Sandy Hook was a hoax,&nbsp;</b>but that notion was circulating on talk radio among well-established conspiracy theorists within days of the mass shooting. The conspiracy connected multiple well-trodden frames, most notably the presence of a deep state that wanted to limit access to guns and the idea that the news media was operating on behalf of the Obama administration. As conspiratorial thinkers and other digital actors obsessed over the story, they devised a term to dismiss the people who appeared on TV. They called these people "crisis actors."</font></span></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This concept is linked to an earlier phenomenon that Whitney Phillips documented:<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;RIP trolling.</span>&nbsp;In various message boards, people lamented what they called "grief tourism," referring to the tendency of well-meaning people to post messages on someone's page after they died even when they didn't know that person. In response, trolls used cruel commentary, sick jokes, and harassment to attack anyone who added to the media spectacle surrounding a person's death. RIP trolling was a form of harassment, but it was also a way of mocking how social media and news media created spectacle around death.</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By labeling those who had witnessed terroristic gun violence "crisis actors," conspiracy theorists didn't simply seek to undermine those who were sharing their stories. They wanted to troll the news media. Some had a political agenda; others simply wanted to mock the media for its "grief tourism."<b>&nbsp;But collectively, they wanted to seed doubt in the public about the honesty of the media's reporting.</b></font></span></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Phrases like "crisis actor" don't spread naturally through word-of-mouth networks, even on social media. To get them into the public lexicon, media manipulators must convince<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;major media amplifiers</span>&nbsp;to work on their behalf.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Over the last six years, networks of online antagonists have jumped on every mass tragedy to manipulate the media and propel this term into the mainstream. They use fake accounts on social media to talk with journalists, to ask journalists if there is any truth to the idea that witnesses are really crisis actors. They deface&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Wikipedia&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">entries.</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;They try to</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;manipulate trending topics and autocomplete on search</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But algorithmic systems aren't their target. Journalists are the real target of their digital shenanigans.</span></font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Manipulators aren't trying to get journalists to say that witnesses to gun violence and terrorism are actually crisis actors.</b>&nbsp;Their goal is to get the news media to negate that frame?-?and negate the conspirators who are propagating that frame. This may be&nbsp;<b>counter-intuitive, but when news media negates a conspiratorial frame, the people who are most open to such a conspiracy will want to self-investigate precisely because they don't trust the news media. As a result, negation enables a boomerang effect.</b></font></span></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Algorithmic systems aren't their target. Journalists are the real target of their digital shenanigans.</font></b></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Propelling the term into public lexicon is only the first step. Sure, it's fun to celebrate an effort to manipulate major newscasters. But a secondary goal is to get people to search for a term that they've never considered before. Once news media starts negating the concept of a crisis actor, searches for that term spiked. What did they find when they did that search? For example, in the first days after&nbsp;<b>Parkland,</b>&nbsp;they found blog posts and online conversations staged to mock the news media and gaslight the public.</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>For example, a video from the aforementioned conspiracy </b>theorist focused on crisis actors opens with: "Are we saying the shooting didn't happen? Are we saying they're all actors and that they're faking that something happened? No. The media is saying that. What we're saying is [that] 'School Shooting Survivor Turned Activist dad, Hogg's Father in FBI appears to have been coached.'"&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This particular video then continues on to imply Anderson Cooper is a well-known CIA operative and describes how CNN fakes things… all to build the case that David Hogg is fundamentally a Democratic Party operative.<b> Viewers may not believe everything, but they are initiated into frames that they've never considered. And that's the point of triggering people to search.</b></span></font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Using search to your advantage relies on what Michael Golebiewski at Bing calls a "data void." When people search for a phrase that does not have natural informative results, it's easy for manipulators to control the results.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Take, for example, "did the Holocaust exist?" If no one produces content to combat that frame, what people get when they search for that phrase is conspiratorial. Media manipulators design and exploit data voids. They galvanize around phrases, create digital content around that phrase, and then work to push those phrases into the mainstream lexicon by using news media's instinct to cover something new. When it came to "crisis actors," they knew what search results would appear at the top,<b> especially on YouTube.</b></span></font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Google and Bing rely heavily on legitimate news content to cover up data voids about breaking topics. But&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">YouTube is a disaster.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">First, there's a lot less content on YouTube, which means that problematic content surfaces to the top faster. Second, YouTube isn't simply a search engine; it's also a recommendation engine that encourages people to view more videos and go on a journey. This is great for music discovery, but not so great when manipulators game the recommendation system to create pathways to extremist content. Third, while newsrooms and text creators have gotten smart about SEO on Google and Bing, they're weak with<b>&nbsp;<u>YouTube, even though it's the primary search engine for the under-25s.</u></b></span></font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My colleague Becca Lewis is about to release a report that shows how media manipulators have leveraged data voids, recommendation processes of YouTube, and potential recruits' interest in self-investigation to walk people from quasi-mainstream debates to extremism. Through the use of comments, linking, and strategic cross-participation, those who are curious to self-investigate follow breadcrumbs that were designed to promote conspiracy and hate.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Unfortunately,<b>&nbsp;most media making organizations don't think about the networked nature of video&nbsp;</b>or the importance of creating high quality, easily findable content on YouTube.</span></font></strong></strong></strong></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></strong></strong></strong></div><div><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></strong></strong></strong></div></div><div><p style=""><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">atalie Martinez reported that two Republican Party officials&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4S48a-a9_sXQIR1h9mK8VI4twbpXlJ8nYiOLVw-faOpt6zLpprkZ61ag5aQ9qQ7xpHIDVGPdAcGFKGRWMIb9e21pUmIxZGbRMFE6395mJLdZ6Dyccs6KdmEkbj4XDms6UU&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=916weekly&n=27&v=1437" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">are administrators</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of the</span><b style=""> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">private conspiracy theory Facebook group</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Florida Republicans United. Lou Marin and Kathy Gibson are the vice chair and state committeewoman, respectively, for the Orange County Republican Executive Committee. Gibson recently&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=wASwMT-mzd1xA6fVCdqVOoY3HBaCcK2ireEB3mRq2Oicu9UQUEOuAr7Q0afM9LWOduE1Ft1bgdLoy7FcOKV6RuTS0tcNhPNi_H3ofLFvV2txFNdSnzp_cLli8CJiDc6rJGV7Ph1jD8voFPI9yHOBw&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=916weekly&n=28&v=1437" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">came under fire</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;for posting a racist meme targeting Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, which she claims was posted by someone who had&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=z_3kjHTpdzgNPsJN0qg2JYi35LsB1aR645ooz3pbQ3XyM8GPhW0sNCbBMZ7Ft9ZEMY1xPrwJBbORpkMLBujai5BYl2lza3MOeg5EV9ZyfvsoL78RDewXUyCKPXKxPBsO&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=916weekly&n=29&v=1437" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hacked into her Facebook account</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></strong></strong></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Numerous far-right conspiracy theories have been pushed in the group:</font></strong></strong></strong></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Administrators shared posts about the&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4RjFFr5pciVDFAgdgozMnjwrACJD119QD-O3PsOM7eewIM2guzRvD2hFrKmJ8NCAeoayRUb566GfL26mHFC0z3z6jsbALpnQfLppPjGXGnWg&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=916weekly&n=30&v=1437" style="">'QAnon' conspiracy theory</a>, which claims that there is a secret pro-Trump effort fighting against widespread sex trafficking.</font></strong></strong></strong></li><li><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marin alleged that the mass shooting in Parkland, FL, may have been "Just Another FALSE FLAG Designed to Take YOUR Guns."</font></strong></strong></strong></li><li><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another administrator alleged that the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VA, was a false flag. Another post defended the neo-Nazi who killed counterprotester Heather Heyer when he drove his car into the crowd.</font></strong></strong></strong></li><li><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marin and others shared conspiracy theories about murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich.</font></strong></strong></strong></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Numerous Florida Republicans are listed as members of this Facebook group, including state Attorney General Pam Bondi, who recently spent a week&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=5KnwbrGvvC7ideTp5vwYxk8KcEvOSVNv9H9T-Fefo4mOJz9bv1h8wwJjSQDbJgKa06QiHJcRb2e-nqTslW_JzzBuqKD22F4vzYgW0eOmVVeah1v79Qq0OYlqZI6pvLLaeOuDjNmuq-rE38ccElKFXXNSoV2Q6FiGivo-iyKH4GnFCEUQPPppU0DWEB43crcS&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=916weekly&n=31&v=1437" style="">as a guest host</a>&nbsp;on Fox News.</font></strong></strong></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Martinez has&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4QWzr9GacSVOrtzSKQNQ-F-Dx6nnGT4j21-SpZFQXmxBG6FNNx2lg2Qi9lYzgZUzF_2u9r2rLZsVHuX9jZdcdNHXyf2fC_pOAI5daY87V0Gz6kYkMYlY66mDga2UfVHP1h_u8TPNN1bPJDZjIyAnlGoEVVX3XybUoEYIqb5RQilQ&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=916weekly&n=32&v=1437" style="">previously reported</a>&nbsp;about top Republicans who were administrators for a racist Facebook group.</font></strong></strong></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><em>Also:</em></strong>&nbsp;Eric Hananoki&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4Sp0wGD6PjuzYSXA3JIDP0yrDMjUPv5KtxHdYiQX3RTFRwau0jMjdX5uvuVXVJy4vpp7zN7obNSl6sLfmD45-rSdzn1QCJI4jF76sPawiJ7BQ1perCLNsB4vWIXdDO2YPQdGASFVNqaziGpCSLB5gyg6MzJ_oR0JQUS4X-dSrn8-A&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=916weekly&n=33&v=1437" style="">reports that</a>&nbsp;Dale Mensing, a congressional candidate who’s backed by the California Republican Party, wrote that the chemtrails conspiracy theory "is one of the three primary issues” of his campaign and used a video from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as evidence.</font></strong></strong></strong></p></div><div><p><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/trump-calls-google-search-rigged-after-watching-diamond-and-silk">https://www.alternet.org/trump-calls-google-search-rigged-after-watching-diamond-and-silk</a></font></strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>&nbsp;Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted a bizarre attack on Google, calling their search results "RIGGED" and possibly "illegal" because "Google search results for 'Trump News' shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New [sic] Media."</b></font></strong></strong></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-error" data-twitter-extracted-i1535481644920162577="true" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p dir="ltr" xml:lang="en" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;" lang="en" xmlns:xml="xml"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Google search results for “Trump News” shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% of...</font></strong></strong></p><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1034371152204967936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration-line: none;">August 28, 2018</a></font></strong></strong></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-error" data-twitter-extracted-i1535481644920162577="true"><p dir="ltr" xml:lang="en" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;" lang="en" xmlns:xml="xml"><strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">....results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!</font></strong></strong></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 20px;"><strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1034373707047882759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration-line: none;">August 28, 2018</a></font></strong></strong></div></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It didn't take long for Media Matters For America's Matt Gertz to&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1034412161781706753" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">uncover</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;what Trump was talking about: he had been watching a&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox Business interview between Lou Dobbs&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and right-wing YouTubers Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, known by the stage names &nbsp;"Diamond and Silk."</span></b></font></strong></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the interview, the two&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/trumps-crazed-rant-google-inspired-fox-news-interview-youtube-stars-diamond-silk/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">accused</a>&nbsp;Google of "tyranny" and "political lynching" for not showing a larger number of articles favorable to Trump. Hardaway warned that "somebody's going to have to step in and take a look at this here."</font></strong></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">..During the segment, Diamond and Silk, identified as "President Trump's most loyal supporters," described this as "tyranny" and "a form of political lynching." </span><a href="https://t.co/vHa9SJPKZp" class="PrettyLink link media customisable" data-pre-embedded="true" dir="ltr" data-scribe="" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" outline="outline" px="px">pic.twitter.com/vHa9SJPKZ</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent">p</span></font></strong></strong></p><div data-twitter-event-id="2" class="SandboxRoot env-bp-350" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4; white-space: initial; direction: ltr; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative;"><div class="EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent" data-click-to-open-target="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1034412161781706753" data-iframe-title="Twitter Tweet" data-scribe="page:tweet" id="twitter-widget-2" data-twitter-event-id="3" style="overflow: hidden; cursor: pointer; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); border-radius: 5px; max-width: 520px; position: relative;" lang="en"><div class="EmbeddedTweet-ancestor EmbeddedTweet-ancestor--repliesRefresh" data-scribe="section:conversation" style="padding: 20px 20px 0px;"><blockquote class="Tweet Tweet--compact h-entry reply js-tweetIdInfo" cite="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1034411341426118656" data-tweet-id="1034411341426118656" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; border: none;"><div class="Tweet-ancestorContainer Tweet-ancestorContainer--repliesRefresh" style="display: flex; position: relative;"><div class="Tweet-ancestorContents Tweet-ancestorContents--repliesRefresh" style="min-width: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%; padding-bottom: 14px;"><div class="Tweet-body e-entry-content" data-scribe="component:tweet" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><p class="Tweet-text e-entry-title" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; border: none; white-space: pre-wrap; cursor: text; word-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr;" lang="en"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></p><p class="Tweet-text e-entry-title" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; border: none; white-space: pre-wrap; cursor: text; word-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr;" lang="en"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Diamond adds that "somebody's going to have to step in and take a look at this here." Watching the program this morning, Trump tweets, "This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!" <a href="https://t.co/YvydCbLvQG" class="PrettyLink link media customisable" data-pre-embedded="true" dir="ltr" data-scribe="" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;">pic.twitter.com/YvydCbLvQG</a></font></strong></strong></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="EmbeddedTweet-tweet" style="padding: 0px 20px 11.6px;"><blockquote class="Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded" cite="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1034412161781706753" data-tweet-id="1034412161781706753" data-scribe="section:subject" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; border: none;"><div class="Tweet-body e-entry-content" data-scribe="component:tweet" style="margin-top: 14px;"><div class="Tweet-metadata dateline" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 3.2px;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink" data-datetime="2018-08-28T12:07:32+0000" data-scribe="element:full_timestamp" href="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1034412161781706753" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: inherit; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit;">5:07 AM - Aug 28, 201</a>8</font></strong></strong></div><div class="Tweet-metadata dateline" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 3.2px;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></div><div class="Tweet-metadata dateline" style="margin-top: 3.2px;"><strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Diamond and Silk, who previously were caught&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/diamond-silk-busted-lying-oath-trump-payments-house-hearing-goes-off-rails/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lying under oath</a>&nbsp;about a payment they received from the Trump campaign, become a GOP cause celebré after Facebook sent them an<b>erroneous</b>&nbsp;message deeming their content "<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/04/10/facebook-accused-of-deeming-black-pro-trump-sisters-unsafe/?utm_term=.5c9a9bf53289" style="text-decoration-line: none;">unsafe</a>." They have leveraged this into a sweeping conspiracy theory that big tech sites are silencing conservative content —&nbsp;<b>which is&nbsp;<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/diamond-and-silks-facebook-censorship-hoax-a764012eed5b/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">debunked</a>&nbsp;by hard data showing their Facebook engagements actually increased in the past year.</b></font></strong></strong></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Likewise, there is no evidence whatsoever that Google is deliberately suppressing pro-Trump content. Nor, as Trump suggestions, is any algorithm a private tech platform uses to determine search results "illegal," as Google is a private company and there is no constitutional right to appear at the top of its search results.</font></strong></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moreover, it is curious that<b>&nbsp;if the GOP is genuinely concerned that tech companies have too much power over what people see and hear, they do not push for tougher&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws" style="text-decoration-line: none;">antitrust laws</a>&nbsp;against the business practices that allow tech platforms to hold near-total monopolies — the few laws we have on the matter are swiftly being&nbsp;<a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/ohio-v-american-express-co/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">dismantled</a>&nbsp;by the Supreme Court, and with the vote of Trump's own judicial picks.</b></font></strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong><twitterwidget class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg);"><twitterwidget class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><twitterwidget class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-2" data-tweet-id="1034412161781706753" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); max-width: 100%; width: 500px; min-width: 220px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" /></font></twitterwidget></twitterwidget></strong></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">None of this, however, has stopped the right-wing kangaroo courts against social media "censorship." And Trump's rant is just the latest example of how ubiquitous the false narrative has become.</font></strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></strong></strong></p></div><div><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></strong></strong></div><div><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AN</font></strong></strong></div><div><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Paul Rosenberg / Salon August 18, 2018, 3:53 AM GMT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Aug. 3, two days after Trump’s Tampa rally served as a kind of “coming out” party for enthusiasts of the QAnon conspiracy (according to which Trump is totally in control, working secretly with Robert Mueller to put the entire Democratic Party leadership in prison — probably Guantánamo), political scientist Joe Uscinski, co-author of “American Conspiracy Theories,” along with Joseph Parent, tweeted:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It struck me as an odd tweet in a number of ways, not just because QAnon itself is so obviously newsworthy, particularly with this public display, but because the rise of conspiracies on the left is historically unsurprising, as Uscinski’s own book shows, and because the left-wing conspiracy theories cited in the stories he linked to seem far less coherently developed into a widely-shared alternative reality.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Vox story, for example, was a severe critique of Nancy MacLean’s “Democracy in Chains,” </b>which, it should suffice to note, has had nowhere near the impact of classic conservative conspiracy texts such as “A Choice Not An Echo" or “None Dare Call It Treason” in the 1960s, or Pat Robertson’s “The New World Order” in the 1990s — all of which were far more removed from reality.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Indeed, another story — at the Atlantic — expressly denied any left-right equivalence:</b> Before we go on, let me try to quiet the cries of “False equivalence!” before they begin: No, these personalities and publications do not yet wield the same influence in the Democratic Party that their counterparts do in the GOP. But ignoring them would be a mistake.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That sort of balanced perspective is what I would have expected from Uscinski, given the findings in his book, which as I mentioned here in March 2016, “looked at letters to the editor to the New York Times from 1890 to 2010, and found that the villains in conspiracy theories were more often on the left when a Democrat was president, and on the right when a Republicans was in the White House.”<b> The ratios were three-to-one in both cases, </b>and the book makes the more general argument that “Conspiracy Theories Are for Losers” — the title of chapter six.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So by the logic of Uscinski’s own book, QAnon is more exceptional, which should make it more newsworthy, and coverage of it less overblown. So why not say so, I wondered? Why throw the emphasis the other way? “Why should the examples you pointed out (in the 4 articles you linked to) be considered remarkable?” I asked him, via email.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“They shouldn’t, as far as I am concerned,” Uscinski responded. “They show exactly what the ‘Conspiracy Theories are for Losers’ argument predicts. The left turned to conspiracy theories quickly – in a vocal way -- as a salve for their loss in 2016,” he added. “There seems to be little Trump can do without it being treated as a conspiracy by some people on the left. This was no different during the Bush Administration.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oh, really? Well, perhaps there was good reason. After all, the Bush administration actually did conspire to mislead the world into war with Iraq, as the Downing Street memo later revealed. With actual conspiracies like that, who needs theories, anyway?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Do any of those articles indicate an equivalent degree of conspiracist influence on the left today?” I asked.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“My point by posting the articles was that even journalists at left leaning publications noticed an uptick in conspiracy theories on the left since Trump took office,” Uscinski answered. “To me, the most important thing is that conspiracy thinking in the public – as far as my data has shown -- is largely even between the two parties. Sure, we can find places where there are small differences, but these are rarely big if measured in an even-handed way.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s important to understand what he means by “conspiracy thinking in the public.” His book defined individual predispositions toward conspiratorial thinking via previously-used survey questions that “were selected because they address general concepts and get to the heart of conspiratorial thinking: powerful groups covertly controlling events against the common good.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s these predispositions which are largely even between the two parties. This certainly captures an important dimension of conspiracy thinking. But it’s not everything that everyone studying conspiracy thinking means. By excluding some dimensions, they’ve made the problem more manageable, a time-honored strategy in science, but one that inevitably has a time-limit on it. Following the tweets to the four articles, Uscinski concluded:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The problem with this tweet is twofold: first, there are some individual differences between left and right — which I wrote about in that March 2016 article mentioned before — and second, individual-level differences are not the whole story — not by a long shot. Diamonds and coal are both made of carbon. At the atomic level, they’re identical. At the molecular level, not so much. It’s not what they’re made of that makes them different, it’s how they’re put together.</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The same is true of political coalitions. Consider two flagship examples the media has used: birtherism and 9/11 trutherism. The study cited in that March 2016 article found almost no difference between liberals and conservatives on a 9/11 truther question, but in his book Uscinski cites a poll discussed by Brendan Nyhan, which shows relative parity between the two views. Does it matter which result is right? Of course it does — but not in terms of political impact.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump rode his promotion of birtherism all the way to the GOP nomination, and (with a wink and a nod) to the White House as well. No one even dreamed of doing something similar with 9/11 trutherism on the Democratic side. And Trump wasn’t alone, just much more flamboyant. Trump was unique in taking advantage of the situation. But the situation was there for him to exploit within the GOP. There was no such situation on the Democratic side.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Or consider the “death panel” conspiracy theory used to whip the newly-formed Tea Party movement into a frenzy during the August 2009 recess. While not strong enough to prevent the Affordable Care Act from being passed, it played a crucial role in laying the foundations for the GOP’s wave election victory in 2010 — one of the most consequential midterm elections in American history. Is there anything remotely like it on the Democratic side?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recall the conspiratorial books I mentioned above: “A Choice, Not an Echo,” “None Dare Call It Treason,” “The New World Order.” Is there any comparable book on the left? And what about media? Is there any left counterpart to conspiracists like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Alex Jones? Is there any left conspiracist narrative like voter fraud? Or like the strain of global warming denialism that paints global warming as a conspiracy?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In short, coal and diamonds aren’t just aggregates of carbon atoms, and neither are political cultures merely aggregates of individual psychology. It’s the cultural level where left/right differences regarding conspiracism come most sharply into focus.&nbsp; The argument is not that everyone on the left is "sound and savvy" while everyone on the right is a "conspiracy nut." It's that conspiracist thinking has a much larger influence in conservative circles than it does in liberal/progressive ones, for a variety of historical and cultural reasons.</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When I put this argument to Uscinski, he responded: "This is something that I can’t really speak to because it makes a mushy claim that could be tightened up and studied, but hasn’t been yet. We could go back and forth with anecdotes showing that each set of partisan elites engage with conspiracy theories in one way or another. Until a systematic study measures this “influence” you are talking about, I am unwilling to accept a claim that one party’s elites or “circles” are more influenced by conspiracy theories than the other. If future studies show that there is a difference, then so be it."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But I had some very specific frameworks in mind. First is the asymmetry of American politics, described by Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins in “Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats.” Although they do not argue it themselves, the more unified ideological nature of the GOP they describe sets up the preconditions for widely-shared conspiracy narratives much better than the pragmatic coalitional nature of the Democratic Party.&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These include much higher levels of ideological self-identification, stronger, sharper us/them dividing lines, with a more cohesive sense of "us," and less focus on policy specifics, which would divert attention away from conspiracist narratives.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> A second reason for asymmetry in the intensity of conspiracism springs from different models of human cognition, as described by Chris Mooney in “The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science — and Reality,” where he argues, accurately, that the GOP/conservative focus on persuasion is far more in line with the evolutionary record than the Democratic/liberal focus on fact-finding.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The right's greater focus on persuasion appears to be perfectly consistent with a greater propensity to conspiracism under the model in "American Conspiracy Theories," given that widespread communicative responses to perceived threat are required in order for them to spread. Individuals on the left might be just as inclined toward conspiracism, in other words, but shared models and practices about how to think and what to think about politically create a less hospitable environment for conspiracy theories to thrive, so they will cohere less readily, even with similar individual-level tendencies to engage in conspiracist thinking.&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I asked Uscinski for his response to these arguments. “I am familiar with these works and with the asymmetry arguments more broadly,” he said. “When I started my work on conspiracy theories, I expected the right to be big conspiracy theorists. But that is not what my data found, and I have to side with my data. I am sure there are differences between right and left on some dimensions, but for now I have to go with what my data says. If new data shows changes on this point, then I will change what I say to be in line with the new evidence.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But I don’t expect individual-level data to be the key here. Especially the kind that fits his under-dimensioned model of what conspiracy theories involve. Several things in particular seem missing: the question of how realistic such thinking is, what traditions it draws on, how elaborate and artificial or fanciful or bizarre it becomes. Consider the question of realism, for example. Human societies generally are run by elites, who constitute “powerful groups,” who generally exert control through a combination of overt and covert means, with varying degrees of coinciding with the common good. Hence, Uscinski’s definition of conspiratorial thinking is factually accurate for at least some periods of time.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But feelings of grievance are not necessarily accurately connected to causes, which brings us to the question of the traditions being drawn on. Using Jews as a scapegoat in times of mass suffering was long a favorite strategy of European elites. Hence, the saying, “Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.” Unfortunately, Uscinski’s approach wipes out that distinction. Neither questions of realism nor of tradition enter into his thinking when he equates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, as he did in discussing why 2016 has produced more GOP conspiracism than his theory predicts. The reason he says (“provisionally”) is Donald Trump:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump entered the Republican primaries against 25 other Republicans, all more experienced and more Republican than himself. To differentiate himself, he turned to conspiracy rhetoric to mobilize the conspiracy-minded wing of the Republican Party.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump went after the voters who:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. Would normally be less likely to turn out to begin with, and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. Would not be excited by an establishment candidate like Jeb Bush.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump mobilized these conspiracy minded Republicans and won the primary with a plurality (Sanders did the same thing on the Democratic side and got an equal amount of support using his ‘the 1 percent rigged everything’ conspiracy theories).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sanders only warranted a parenthetical mention, but it’s a telling one. Adopting an under-dimensioned model of conspiracism, Uscinski feels perfectly justified in treating Sanders as equivalent to Trump. For him, there is no difference between socialism and the socialism of fools. Or consider another equivalence from his book — the way in which he deals with the conservative voter fraud conspiracy.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">First, he quotes Jonathan Chait, accurately describing the situation: “Bizarre, counterfactual beliefs about massive electoral fraud exist on both right and left. The important difference is that left-wing electoral conspiracy theories are almost completely marginal, rejected by even highly partisan outlets like Daily Kos, whereas the right-wing equivalent enjoys mainstream support.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rather than respond to Chait’s claim, Uscinski shifts focus to a poll of individual attitudes — from the level of coal vs. diamonds to the level of carbon vs. carbon. Fifty percent of Republicans said voter fraud would be very or somewhat likely if their preferred presidential candidate didn't win the election, versus 44 percent of Democrats, "about a tie."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But then Uscinski shifts focus again, rather dramatically. Using his lens of under-dimensioned conspiracy thinking, he equates voter registration on the one hand with voter suppression on the other:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Each side believes that when the other side wins cheating is to blame, and they believe it about equally. These beliefs rebound upon each other. Democrats, responding to the belief that their voters had been suppressed in 2000 and 2004, made herculean efforts at voter registration and mobilization in 2008 and 2012. Republicans saw these efforts as an attempt to commit voter fraud by stuffing ballot boxes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Responding to their perception, Republican governors and legislatures across the states attempted to institute tougher restrictions on voting, including requiring voter identification. In response to this, Democrats accused Republicans of manufacturing phony assertions of voter fraud as part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to curtail Democratic voters’ access to the polls. This spiral of hostility is bound to continue.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Needless to say, this is a cartoon version of what’s actually happened — a story with a much longer history, dating back to the earliest days of our republic. Suppressing voters is a long-standing conservative tradition, upheld by Southern Democrats more than anyone, when they had the most to fear from both blacks and whites without property.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the 1990s, after Democrats passed the Motor Voter bill, integrating voter registration into a wide range of citizen/government interactions, there was fierce state-level opposition to implementing it by Republicans, a story told by Francis Fox Piven and Richard Clower in their book, “Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way,” an updated version of a book that was crucial in getting Motor Voter passed in the first place.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was only after the updated version was published, in 2000, that Democrats began to grow more interested in registering new voters, while Republican obstructionism only deepened. To this day, the United States remains unique in its high level of voter non-participation. Nowhere else does this level of sustained conflict to suppress voters exist. Yet Uscinski’s account turns it into just another case of “both sides do it.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another dimension of conspiracism that Uscinski’s account leaves out is how elaborate it becomes, and the kinds of flawed reasoning involved. In a January 2017 story, I ticked off a set of six characteristics of conspiracist thought investigated by Stephan Lewandowsky, which I had described in detail in a previous article,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They come in three pairs: The first two establish a morally self-justifying framework — hidden conspirators are bad (“nefarious intention”), but conspiracy theorists are good (“persecution-victimization”) — which subverts the conspiracists’ purported interest in truth-seeking. The second pair does this by managing unwanted information: First by ignoring or denying contradictory evidence (“nihilistic skepticism”) and then by building an elaborate fantasy edifice, incorporating random evidence (“nothing happens by accident”). The last pair subverts truth-seeking by fending off sounder explanations, either by dogmatically insisting there’s a conspiracy even if no coherent account of it can be given (and, in the extreme, when conspiracists hold self-contradictory beliefs), or by insisting that evidence against the conspiracy is actually evidence in favor of it — proof of how badly the conspirators want to hide the truth (“self-sealing”).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This kind of focus on the thinking process involved is perhaps the most striking, simple way to distinguish between the very different worlds of Donald Trump and QAnon, on the one hand, and Bernie Sanders and DSA on the other. There is simply no similarity in how they develop and defend their arguments.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In short, Uscinski’s work leaves me with two conflicting feelings. On the one hand, I appreciate what he’s done with his simplified model of conspiracy thinking — it’s clarified a lot. On the other, I’m frustrated by what it excludes, and by the distorted picture that results. Sanders and Trump are not two peas in a pod, nor is voter registration the flip side of voter suppression, and any theoretical framework that supports such views is seriously incomplete, at best.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The truth is, we’re only just beginning to understand the phenomena of conspiracy theories and how they fit into the larger scheme of all the things humans do. We need more creative thinking about how the different aspects of this all fit together, more critical thinking to evaluate those creative ideas and, finally, more rigorous data, as reality will be the ultimate test.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul H. Rosenberg is senior editor at Random Lengths News, a biweekly serving the Los Angeles harbor area.&nbsp;</font></div></div><div><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></strong></strong></div><div><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/we-have-cia-thank-qanon-conspiracy-theory">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/we-have-cia-thank-qanon-conspiracy-theory</a></font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the editor of the JFK Facts blog, I try not to spend a lot of time on stupid conspiracy theories, but given widespread ignorance and confusion on the subject, unpleasant journalist duty often calls.</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Who killed JFK? The Federal Reserve?&nbsp;<a href="https://jfkfacts.org/absolved-the-fed-ron-paul-and-jfk/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Nah.</a>&nbsp;The Secret Service man? A&nbsp;<a href="https://jfkfacts.org/stupidity-goes-viral-lame-jfk-conspiracy-theory-spreads-around-the-world/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hoax</a>. Ted Cruz’s father?&nbsp;<a href="https://jfkfacts.org/bogus-rafael-cruz-conspiracy-theory-fizzles/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Pure B.S.</a>&nbsp;George H.W. Bush?&nbsp;Heavy breathing is not the same as&nbsp;<a href="https://jfkfacts.org/absolved-george-h-w-bush/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">credible evidence.</a>&nbsp;On a recent&nbsp;<a href="https://jfkfacts.org/my-conversation-with-john-greenewald-of-the-black-vault/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Black Vault podcast,</a>&nbsp;the most common JFK question I heard was, “Was Kennedy assassinated because of his interest in UFOs?” Um, no, he was not.</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Which brings me to&nbsp;<b>QAnon</b>, the imaginative conspiracy theorist now dominating the internet,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/qanon-conspiracy-nuts-freak-out-after-hbos-bill-maher-ridicules-their-bonkers-theories" style="text-decoration-line: none;">attracting followers</a>&nbsp;of President Trump, and obsessing the Washington Post, which has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/01/we-are-q-a-deranged-conspiracy-cult-leaps-from-the-internet-to-the-crowd-at-trumps-maga-tour/?utm_term=.bf8cf0f0e2b3" style="text-decoration-line: none;">published</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/as-the-bizarre-qanon-group-emerges-trump-rallies-go-from-nasty-to-dangerous/2018/08/01/063ed6f8-9585-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?utm_term=.44d808d8c240" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a&nbsp;</a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/08/01/trumps-most-despicable-supporters-tell-us-who-they-are/?utm_term=.2b22d627407c" style="text-decoration-line: none;">dozen</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/08/01/how-qanon-the-conspiracy-theory-spawned-by-a-trump-quip-got-so-big-and-scary/?utm_term=.e707a90443c5" style="text-decoration-line: none;">articles</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-mystery-of-q-how-an-anonymous-conspiracy-monger-launched-a-movement-if-he-even-exists/2018/08/01/6d10f5b4-95a3-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html?utm_term=.6defc46bee1b" style="text-decoration-line: none;">about</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/08/02/what-makes-qanon-so-scary/?utm_term=.262dcc8a85f7" style="text-decoration-line: none;">QAnon</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/08/02/conspiracy-theories-are-for-losers-qanon-is-no-exception/?utm_term=.909636eb94db" style="text-decoration-line: none;">in the</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/03/qanon-meet-a-real-life-believer-in-the-online-pro-trump-conspiracy-theory-thats-bursting-into-view/?utm_term=.1f2f67af9293" style="text-decoration-line: none;">span</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/08/03/this-is-the-moment-how-a-wave-of-media-coverage-gave-qanon-conspiracy-theorists-their-best-week-ever/?utm_term=.58ff7ec47846" style="text-decoration-line: none;">of</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/08/04/how-j-p-morgan-didnt-sink-the-titanic-and-other-qanon-conspiracy-theories-debunked/?utm_term=.1071097e4a57" style="text-decoration-line: none;">four&nbsp;</a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/08/05/jfk-jr-didnt-die-he-runs-qanon-and-hes-no-1-trump-fan-omg/?utm_term=.94ae3d0e15d0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">days.</a>&nbsp;Like many conspiracy theories, the QAnon fever dream can be traced back to the assassination of JFK.&nbsp; The QAnon conspiracy theory is a psychedelic mushroom planted in the fertile manure of the Warren Commission. This mind-altering proposition grows in the gloom of anonymous chat groups. It is then stimulated by the bright lights of social media. And finally it is harvested and ingested by Trump cultists eager to prolong the alt-reality buzz that commenced on January 20, 2017.</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But it all began on November 22, 1963.</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Who Is QAnon?</font></strong></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For the uninitiated, “Q” is the moniker of a person or group of persons who post to 4Chan, a popular image website favored by the anonymous. Q’s “theory” (and I use the term generously) is that President Trump was persuaded by the military to smash a network of “deep state” pedophiles that has ruled America for decades. The president (it is said) is working with John F. Kennedy Jr. (who did not die in a plane crash). They will soon smash the perfidious plotters, QAnon predicts, and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will be sent to Guantanamo.</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You may think this is nutty stuff. Buzzfeed News&nbsp;<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/its-looking-extremely-likely-that-qanon-is-probably-a" style="text-decoration-line: none;">speculates</a>&nbsp;that QAnon is actually a leftist goof on right-wing suckers. But read the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/5/q-qanon-followers-gain-prominence-donald-trump-ral/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">respectful coverage</a>&nbsp;of the pro-Trump Washington Times, where&nbsp;QAnon is described as a “mysterious figure” who has been “posting provocative questions about the government since October.”&nbsp;This stuff is taken seriously.</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The historical foundation of this mash-up of the preposterous, the ludicrous and the vile is, you guessed it, the assassination of JFK.</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From a&nbsp;<a href="https://8ch.net/cbts/res/98535.html#99525" style="text-decoration-line: none;">December 2017 QAnon post</a>&nbsp;about Trump’s alleged enemies:</font></strong></strong></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a backup, they defined ‘conspiracy’ as crazy/mentally unstable and label anything ‘true’ as such.</font></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This works given most of what they engage in is pure evil and simply unbelievable (hard to swallow).</font></strong></strong></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ‘fix’ has always been in – no matter which party won the election (-JFK (killed)/Reagan(shot)).</font></strong></strong></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why do people believe this nonsense?</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">One reason is that a few kernels of it are not nonsense. The CIA, in this&nbsp;<a href="https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=49975" style="text-decoration-line: none;">April 1967 memo,</a>&nbsp;launched a worldwide campaign to demonize critics of the Warren Commission as “conspiracy theorists.” Skepticism about official theory of JFK’s assassination, wrote one agency official with the approval of CIA director Richard Helms, “is of concern to the U.S. government including our organization.”</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The agency distributed talking points for “friendly elite contacts,</b>” including the bald-faced lie that accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was “an unknown quantity to any professional intelligence service.” In fact, CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton had&nbsp;<a href="https://jfkfacts.org/how-the-cia-watched-oswald-make-his-way-to-dallas/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">monitored Oswald’s movements, politics, personal life and foreign contacts</a>&nbsp;for four years before he allegedly killed JFK.</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If that fact became known, the CIA would have a world of hurt on its hands. So the agency said in its memo that the members of the Warren Commission were eminent men and “efforts to impugn their rectitude and wisdom tend to cast doubt on the whole leadership of American society.”</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Commission’s critics, said the CIA, “are enticed by a form of intellectual pride: they light on some theory and fall in love with it; they also scoff at the Commission because it did not always answer every question with a flat decision one way or another.”&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In other words, the CIA&nbsp;<em>did</em>&nbsp;define belief in “conspiracy” as a symptom of the mentally unstable and patriotically unreliable.</span></font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, the doubts were fact-based. Skepticism about the Warren Commission’s conclusions percolated among the&nbsp;<a href="https://jfkfacts.org/insiders-who-suspected-a-jfk-plot/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Washington insiders</a>&nbsp;(including Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and Jackie Kennedy) and among foreign leaders (including&nbsp;<a href="https://jfkfacts.org/what-did-fidel-castro-think-about-jfks-assassination/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Fidel Castro</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://jfkfacts.org/devils-chessboard-jfk-assassination-story-foreshadowed-in-1961-france/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Charles DeGaulle</a>). All of them concluded privately that JFK had been killed by his enemies, not by a lone gunman.</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, there are other factors contributing to the vogue of QAnon that have nothing to do with JFK.</font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The echo chamber effects of social media encourage the credulous. So does a president enamored with “alternative facts” (aka bullshit). The exhaustion of the American<b>economic system, which no longer provides the majority with affordable education or upward mobility, leaves young people grasping for explanation of their plight.</b></font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the U.S. government’s implausible account of JFK’s assassination—and the CIA’s self-serving defense—can always be cited by those who say “The government is lying.” So if you want to trace the roots of QAnon in American society, look to the Warren Commission and Langley<b>. Please leave us JFK researchers out of it.</b></font></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Origins of JFK Theories</font></strong></strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></strong></strong></strong></p></div><div><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></strong></strong></div><div><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/heres-why-americans-throughout-history-have-loved-conspiracy-theorists">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/heres-why-americans-throughout-history-have-loved-conspiracy-theorists</a></font></strong></strong></div><div><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></strong></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Confrontational characters spouting conspiracy theories and promoting fringe ideas have been with us since the invention of American broadcasting. First on radio, then on television, the American audience has consistently proven eager to consume the rants of angry and bitter men.</font></strong></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/alex-jones-lawsuit-will-help-redefine-free-speech/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Alex Jones and InfoWars</a>, there was Glenn Beck.</font></strong></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A decade ago, Beck was hawking his conspiracy theories on HLN and Fox News. Beck eventually&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/04/06/135181398/glenn-beck-to-leave-daily-fox-news-show" style="text-decoration-line: none;">left HLN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/business/media/17fox.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">and lost the Fox News job</a>, just as the inflammatory&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-morton-downey-jr-documentary-20150817-story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Morton Downey Jr.</a>&nbsp;lost his lucrative syndicated broadcast decades earlier.&nbsp; And before Morton Downey Jr., there was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/joe-pyne-first-shock-jock-180963237/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Pyne</a>, the war hero who eventually ended up railing against “hippies, homosexuals and feminists” on the airwaves in the 1960s.</font></strong></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before Pyne, there was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005516" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Father Coughlin</a>, “the radio priest.” Coughlin was eased off CBS in the 1930s when&nbsp;<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=y6jnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA45&dq=%22Erik+Barnouw%22+%22Coughlin+increasingly+berated+President+Hoover%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7urTL79jcAhXFxFkKHXIsClwQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=%22Erik%20Barnouw%22%20%22Coughlin%20increasingly%20berated%20President%20Hoover%22&f=false" style="text-decoration-line: none;">he refused to allow the network to vet</a>&nbsp;his inflammatory commentary.</font></strong></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You get the idea. Alex Jones is not unique. Nor do I believe, as&nbsp;<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YxTJsxoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a historian of American media</a>, that he will be the last of his kind.</font></strong></strong></p><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Public airwaves in private hands</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></strong></strong><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier this week, Jones’ InfoWars&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/636030043/youtube-apple-and-facebook-ban-infowars-which-decries-mega-purge" style="text-decoration-line: none;">content was banned</a>&nbsp;by Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and other web content distributors. It apparently violated policies against hate speech and inciting violence.</font></strong></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whether you agree or disagree with the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/technology/infowars-alex-jones-apple-facebook-spotify.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">decision</a>&nbsp;to constrict the reach of Jones’ toxic InfoWars videos, the upholding of these speech policies by commercial corporations represents a thorny historical issue in existence since the inception of broadcasting in the U.S.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Traditionally, it’s not been state censorship that’s cleansed American public debate. Rather, since the advent of electronic communication, commercial corporations have often acted out of fear of reprisal - from both the government and the public.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The U.S. regulatory system for broadcasting began in 1912, when&nbsp;<a href="https://earlyradiohistory.us/doc_recs.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the Commerce Department assumed an administrative role</a>&nbsp;that up until then had been haphazardly applied by different governmental agencies.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That system lasted until it was struck down by&nbsp;<a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/F2/12/614/1490149/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a U.S. federal court ruling in 1926</a>, which resulted in Congress establishing the&nbsp;<a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2016/02/anniversary-of-the-radio-act-of-1927-the-beginning-of-broadcast-regulation/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the Federal Radio Commission</a>&nbsp;the next year and its successor, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Communications-Act-of-1934" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Federal Communications Commission</a>&nbsp;in 1934. Each regulatory entity generally ceded supervision of broadcast content to independent, commercial entities acting as licensees of the airwaves.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This means the U.S. government has entrusted, and continues to entrust, private corporations with structuring public debate and discussion.</b> Regulators are empowered to act but rarely do because the expectation that independent outlets remain responsible and civic-minded is deeply ingrained in the American system.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The web is governed by different protocols than broadcast media. The web was invented to share information widely and open up new spaces for community interaction, exchange and engagement that the old mass media made difficult (if not impossible).</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The web’s inventors saw their role in contrast to broadcast media: as facilitating rather than censoring. The regulatory system that specifically indemnifies and protects them from content posted&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230" style="text-decoration-line: none;">under their banners</a>&nbsp;is a recognition of this status.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">So, despite this new, open, democratic and accessible ideal of the web – the opposite of corporate-owned traditional broadcast media – the fact that mass web access to the American public remains largely controlled by corporate gatekeepers such as Facebook and Google may seem surprising.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet history, in the guise of Alex Jones and InfoWars, seems to have cast these social media and search engine giants into a more traditional role.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Google and Facebook might not want to police the marketplace of ideas, but it appears that they have little choice at this point.</b> The creation they spawned is now&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/fffb59b0-3ef9-11e8-b7e0-52972418fec4" style="text-decoration-line: none;">littered with crackpots and conspiracy theorists</a>, and it’s been&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/politics/russia-mueller-election.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">exploited by a foreign government</a>&nbsp;to damage the American political system.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But strong believers in the unfettered exchange of ideas as embodied by the&nbsp;<a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-i" style="text-decoration-line: none;">First Amendment</a>&nbsp;can take comfort in knowing the moves to limit peddlers of hate and lies like InfoWars won’t actually change much. There will be another Alex Jones in existence eventually.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s the American way.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From self-invention to crazy</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/25/archives/richard-hofstadter-pulitzer-historian-54-dies-author-of-13-books.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Hofstadter</a>, the noted American historian, published “<a href="https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Paranoid Style in American Politics</a>,” he identified a timeless and universal problem inherent in American political discourse.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Freakish conspiracy beliefs have continually given rise to such movements as the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Know-Nothing-party" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Know Nothings in the 1850s</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://time.com/3623761/john-birch/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">John Birch Society</a>&nbsp;in the 1950s. Long before Hofstadter,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.history.com/topics/alexis-de-tocqueville" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Alexis de Tocqueville</a>&nbsp;noted that a particularly American insecurity sprung from the ideology of democratic equality.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In societies where everyone knows their place – say, in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35650616" style="text-decoration-line: none;">caste system of India</a>&nbsp;or the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.debretts.com/expertise/essential-guide-to-the-peerage/ranks-and-privileges-of-the-peerage/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">traditional aristocratic hierarchies</a>&nbsp;of Europe – the lack of personal opportunity and social mobility often creates apathy and acquiescence</b>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">But in the United States,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/967284?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" style="text-decoration-line: none;">where everyone is officially born equal</a>, we are supposedly empowered to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3233003?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" style="text-decoration-line: none;">make of ourselves what we will</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whether it’s unscientific&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/anti-vaccination-beliefs-dont-follow-the-usual-political-polarization-81001" style="text-decoration-line: none;">anti-vaccination theories</a>, anti-Semitic rantings, or baldfaced scientific racism,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/03/technology/suddenly-everybody-s-an-expert.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">anybody can be an “expert”</a>&nbsp;in America simply by proclaiming their expertise.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though this expertise might be assisted by celebrity, it’s in no way beholden to education or class. That’s the American way.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Failure begets conspiracy thinking</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Alex Joneses, Glenn Becks and Father Coughlins in our media world represent fissures in our dominant ideology of success. When the American Dream isn’t working out well,&nbsp;<a href="https://hbr.org/2017/02/why-you-need-an-imaginary-scapegoat" style="text-decoration-line: none;">scapegoats must be found</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And a large audience of&nbsp;<a href="https://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/social-psychology-theories/scapegoat-theory/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">disappointed people looking for excuses</a>&nbsp;will always exist. Their civics textbooks and teachers taught them that hard work, diligence, obedience to authority and responsible living&nbsp;<a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/american-dream.asp" style="text-decoration-line: none;">inevitably results in economic prosperity</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But it often&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/6/28/17469080/american-dream-steven-brill-inequality-poverty-tailspin" style="text-decoration-line: none;">doesn’t work out that way</a>. They feel lied to, and InfoWars exists to confirm their suspicions.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because there will always exist a rabble to be aroused, this is the space that rabble-rousers historically exploit.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They speak to – and claim to speak for – not simply the downtrodden and downwardly-mobile; they also speak to those feeling wronged and forgotten. They simultaneously soothe and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/20/15295822/alex-jones-fans-climate-change-vaccines-science" style="text-decoration-line: none;">stoke the anxieties and insecurities of Americans</a>&nbsp;living in a world that’s increasingly complex and beyond comprehension. Author Julia Belluz interviewed Jones’ fans and wrote, “I learned that Jones’s listeners felt let down by government, medicine and the media.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People turn to Alex Jones and Glenn Beck for the same reason they tuned in the earlier incarnations – to obtain answers that explain their experience.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s a rational choice that sadly often results in an irrational outcome. The conspiracy theorists are always very good at giving details, but they tend to be far less effective at imparting information and knowledge.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alex Jones promotes InfoWars as educational, but its pedagogical function resembles nothing so much as Trump University,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/11/18/reports-trump-nears-settlement-trump-u-fraud-case/94068946/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">which was sued by New York state</a>&nbsp;for “… making false promises to convince people to spend tens of thousands of dollars … for lessons they never got.” Trump settled that suit.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whether Jones believes his theories or not –&nbsp;<a href="https://time.com/4743025/alex-jones-infowars-divorce-donald-trump/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">and there exists some question about this</a>&nbsp;– InfoWars looks like little more than a classic American con job. Even Alex Jones’ attorneys have argued that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/alex-joness-attorneys-defamation-suit-argue-no-reasonable-person-believe-says/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“no reasonable person”</a>&nbsp;could believe what he says.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s ultimately why Jones is just a symptom.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conspiracies are interwoven into the fabric of our national culture, and, as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2013/09/07/219718597/suspicious-in-united-states-of-paranoia-its-not-just-you" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Jesse Walker pointed out</a>&nbsp;in “<a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062383228/the-united-states-of-paranoia/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">United States of Paranoia</a>,” they are so cyclical and persistent as to be thematically detectable across centuries. As long as insecurity and anxiety can be exploited, there will be new versions of InfoWars to pollute our nation.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/101168/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic" alt="The Conversation" style="border: none;" width="1" height="1" />How’s that for a conspiracy theory?</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/michael-j-socolow-458258" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Michael J. Socolow</a>, Associate Professor, Communication and Journalism,&nbsp;<em><a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-maine-2120" style="text-decoration-line: none;">University of Maine</a></em></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This article was originally published on&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Conversation</a>. Read the&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/audiences-love-the-anger-alex-jones-or-someone-like-him-will-be-back-101168" style="text-decoration-line: none;">original article</a>.</font></p></div><div><strong><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></strong></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div>