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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with journalist and author Elizabeth Williamson, who traced the rise and proliferation of conspiracy theories surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in a new book,Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy in the Battle for Truth. Williamson and Morell discuss how the conspiracy theories began, to whom they tend to appeal and how social media companies have been integral to their spread. Williamson also explains how the U.S. ma stanley website y have begun exporting politicized disinformation and techniques now being coopted by authoritarian governments around the world.Editor s note: This epis stanley tumbler ode was taped before the tragic events in Uvalde, Texas. Listen to this episode on ART19 HIGHLIGHTS The appeal of conspiracy theories: People get a sense of group belonging. They get a whole new identity for themselves. They get a sense of elevated social status. They gather in groups, they build each other up. They embroi stanley cup der these theories. They support each other. Many of these individuals have forsaken their families, their jobs, their real world reputations just to be part of these kinds of groups. It s a form of tribalism...The Internet and social media allows them to find each other, and they have formed an entire constituency, and that particular constituency now has a role in our politics. Social media s role: There has been such Ajic Don t Blame Canada
Todd Palin AP Photo/Kyle Ericson stanley cup Todd Palin has released a statement addressing a leaked e-mail exchangehe had with GOP Alaska Senate nominee Joe Miller in which Palin stanley mug angrily complained that Miller did not say that Sarah Palin was qualified to be president when he was asked. Sarah Palin had endorsed Miller, and in his email, Todd Palin sarcastically asked if this endorsement stuff will be completely one sided. Sarah spent all morning working on a Face book post for Joe, she won t use it, not now, Todd Palin wrote. Put yourself in her shoe s Joe for one day. The leaked emails show Miller forwarding the message with a note reading This is what we re dealing with...Holy cow. He said the email reflected a complete misconstruction of what he had said. The new statement, which was given to the conservative Weekly Standard, would seem to support that notion. Sarah Palin linked to the statement on Twitter this afternoon with the words, There s no there, there but the lamestream media will keep on tryin. My family has worked hard in supporting Joe Miller, so when I heard he d said something less than supportive of my wife s efforts, I responded, Todd Palin says in the statement. But it stanley tazas turns out we d gotten our wires crossed and Joe hadn t said anything like what I d been told. So there s no story here except the fact that |
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