Author: Government’s Use Of Secrecy, Other ‘Subtle Tools’ Post-9/11 Has Eroded Democracy

September 11, 2021

Archived 5 years ago from Wisconsin Public Radio
Author: Government’s Use Of Secrecy, Other ‘Subtle Tools’ Post-9/11 Has Eroded Democracy

In the 20 years between George W. Bush and Donald Trump’s presidencies, American democracy has been chipped away at by the use of “subtle tools” that government officials have wielded and weaponized, especially after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. That’s according to Karen J. Greenberg, who directs …

9/11

September 11, 2021 2020 election, alex jones, maga, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from The New York Times
‘We’re Going to Take Over the World’

michael barbaro From The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily. Two decades later, there are many legacies of September 11th. Thousands of lives lost. Two forever wars. The birth of a surveillance state. But also, a new era of conspiratorial thinking. Today: My colleague, Kevin …

How 9/11 influenced the way conspiracy theories spread today

9/11

September 10, 2021 alex jones, antivax, epstein, illuminati, qanon

Archived 1 year ago from Yahoo!
How 9/11 influenced the way conspiracy theories spread today

There are some things so difficult to countenance that it can seem simply easier to believe they didn’t happen: that one man could put a bullet through the president’s skull, that human beings could stand on the moon, that a seemingly average man might walk into a school and kill the children …

Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Videos Rife on Facebook Despite …

9/11

September 10, 2021 big tech, david icke, illuminati

Archived 1 year ago from Newsweek
Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Videos Rife on Facebook Despite …

Videos promoting Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the 9/11 terror attacks continue to be rife on Facebook on the 20th anniversary of the tragic events despite the social media giant’s repeated pledges to tackle fake news.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has previously said the company would do …

9/11 conspiracy theories: ‘The truth is people will do evil things in the name of religion’

9/11

September 10, 2021

Archived 2 years ago from Lancashire Telegraph
9/11 conspiracy theories: ‘The truth is people will do evil things in the name of religion’

This is an almost flippant attitude to the events and a belief that this was staged so western powers could invade countries in the Middle East. By sharing these ridiculous views we are discounting the lives of the people who died and were injured. Of course, there is evidence that the attack was …

How 9/11 truthers planted the seeds for QAnon

9/11

September 10, 2021 qanon

Archived 2 years ago from News Literacy Project
How 9/11 truthers planted the seeds for QAnon

Episode Transcript Darragh Worland: Welcome back to Is that a fact?, brought to you by the nonprofit News Literacy Project. I’m your host, Darragh Worland. On September 11, 2021, the United States will mark the 20th anniversary of the most deadly foreign attack on American soil. It changed a way of …

9/11 Conspiracies Continue To Live On Via Social Media

9/11

September 10, 2021 2020 election, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Forbes
9/11 Conspiracies Continue To Live On Via Social Media

9/11 conspiracy theorists protest outside the memorial service at the World Trade Center … [+] construction site marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001. (Photo by James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images It has been 20 years since the tragic events of …

Even the ‘Loose Change’ 9/11 Truthers Think MAGA Conspiracies Are Nuts

9/11

September 10, 2021 2020 election, alex jones, big tech, cia, deep state, flat earth, illuminati, maga, moon landing, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 1 year ago from Yahoo!
Even the ‘Loose Change’ 9/11 Truthers Think MAGA Conspiracies Are Nuts

Korey Rowe was climbing into the car to report for Army basic training when his best friend stopped him. “He was kind of like, ‘Dude, what are you doing?’” Rowe recalled. “I was like, ‘Don’t worry, man. There’s not going to be a war.’”It was late August 2001. By the end of the year, Rowe was in …

How the shock and confusion of 9/11 enabled our modern conspiracy era

9/11

September 10, 2021 2020 election, moon landing, roswell

Archived 1 year ago from Mic
How the shock and confusion of 9/11 enabled our modern conspiracy era

For the last half-decade, it has felt like we’ve been living in the land of conspiracy, with new rumors and misinformation in need of debunking every day. Reality — or at least an agreed-upon version of it — has never felt easier to detach from, with alternate explanations readily available to …

‘25th Hour’: The Best 9/11 Movie Was Always About New York

9/11

September 10, 2021 nazi

Archived 5 years ago from The New York Times
‘25th Hour’: The Best 9/11 Movie Was Always About New York

When Spike Lee came under fire last month for including 9/11 conspiracy theorists in his HBO documentary series “NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021½,” historians and others expressed disappointment that Lee had seemed to give credibility to long-debunked claims. (He subsequently edited them out.) But for …

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