The Early Internet & 9/11 Conspiracies - Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Jordan Klepper has heard a lot of 9/11 conspiracy theories at Trump rallies, including this shiny emerald: Osama bin Laden was a CIA operative named Tim Ossman. Together with Dr. Joan Donovan, research director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Jordan unpacks how the early days of the internet and social media have shaped 9/11 conspiracy theories that are still popping up in more places than rallies two decades later. They are joined by veteran and filmmaker Korey Rowe who co-produced “Loose Change,” one of the first viral conspiracy theory films on 9/11. They discuss the legacy of the film, how the right wing has weaponized conspiracy theories for political gain, and what conversations we should be having about the role of the media.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.6	Pfff!
0:03.6	Hey, it's Roy Wood Jr. Correspondent for the Daily Show.
0:07.8	Up next is an episode of a new Daily Show podcast from my friend and Daily Show contributor,
0:12.7	Jordan Klepper.
0:14.0	Klepper is going deeper into some of the conspiracy theories he's heard in the past seven years
0:18.7	on the Trump campaign trail.
0:20.7	Enjoy this episode of Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy.
0:24.8	Take it away, Jordan.
0:28.4	Come back 20 years.
0:30.1	Maybe you're in school or college.
0:31.6	The friend comes up to you at the $20 bill and they say check this out.
0:34.4	And they start folding it in a kind of weird way.
0:37.4	Kind of in half, then it comes to a point and you realize it's the shape of the Pentagon.
0:42.1	An image on the bill is now that twin towers was smoke coming out of them.
0:45.4	What did the government know about 9-11 before it happened?
0:47.9	If you ever experienced that or if you ever had that thought, then congrats Alex Jones.
0:53.2	You're a 9-11 conspiracy theorist.
0:56.0	This is Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy.
0:58.8	September 11th really was the ground zero of conspiracy theories.
1:03.3	Chances are you can name one.
1:05.1	Jet fuel can't melt steel beams.
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