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Conspiracyland

S1E4: Episode 3: “Fake news theater”

Conspiracyland

Yahoo News

Medical Ailments, Biden, Conspiracy, Yahoo News, Investigative Journalism, Havana Syndrome, Conspiracyland, Michael Isikoff, Russian Intelligence, News, Vladimr Putin, Cuba, Obama, Trump, Conspiracy Theories

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Publicity-hungry D.C. lobbyist Jack Burkman takes the unsolved murder on a wild spree, casting and filming a reenactment of the killing for his own promotional purposes. He does so as another bizarre conspiracy theory takes root — “Pizzagate,” the claim that the Clintons were linked to the sex trafficking of children in the basement of a popular D.C. pizza parlor. The episode explores the indispensable role of “super spreaders” who perpetuate conspiracy theories on social media.

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0:00.0

You don't get between a mother and a cub and...

0:08.8

Well, my cub is dead.

0:12.3

We will find his murderer, but I need all of you.

0:15.0

It was November 2016, and Mary Rich and her husband Joel were frustrated.

0:21.0

It had been four months since their son Seth had been murdered in

0:24.4

Washington, gunned down an apparent botched robbery. But there had been no

0:29.2

progress in the investigation, no suspects, no arrests.

0:33.5

So Mary and Joel flew to Washington

0:35.6

to make a personal appeal.

0:37.7

There had been other robberies in the neighborhood

0:39.7

in the weeks before, and he probably put together, hey, they're coming to get my cell phone or something,

0:46.0

and two minutes later, it was shot.

0:48.9

So what happened in those two minutes?

0:51.8

We'd like to, we'd love to know. If you saw anybody coming home that was bruised and

0:57.6

bloody please call the police and may be the lead we need.

1:02.3

Joining Joel and Mary at the police it may be the lead we need.

1:03.5

Joining Joel and Mary at the press conference that day was a seemingly improbable new figure,

1:09.0

a Capitol Hill lawyer and lobbyist who was very much a wild card.

1:14.0

Good day everyone.

1:16.0

My name is Jack Berkman, J-A-C-K-B-U-R-K-M-A-N.

1:21.0

I represent very proudly the rich family Joel and Mary rich.

1:25.0

Actually, Berkman wasn't representing the rich family at all that day.

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