As they say, everything's bigger in America, cars, burgers, medical bills, and you can probably

stick conspiracy theories on that list too.

When I was a kid, my mum had a hard back book that I couldn't get enough of, 100 of the

world's greatest unsolved mysteries or something to that effect.

But from Area 51 to the assassination of JFK, it felt like the rolling planes of the

USA were a fertile meadow where all manner of weird stuff could happen.

The land of the free and the home of the batshit.

I was fascinated because you don't get many flying saucers in Enfield.

The contents of that book, compiled and published long before the first screech of a dial-up

modem, look almost quaint now.

These are all things which might sound preposterous, but they've ruined lives and led to brutal

acts of violence.

Though the internet has connected us better than ever to sources of high quality information,

like this, science, history, news and the arts, it's also atrophied our collective grasp

on the truth.

So what happens when the most powerful nation on earth, with 120 civilian guns for every

100 people, becomes gripped by paranoia?

I can think of no one better to talk about this with than Nikki Wolf, which is lucky because

he's joining me today.

He's a journalist and editor, focusing on the sticky overlap between technology and politics,

whose investigative podcasts have set a pretty high bar for what a serialised audio can do.

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