The US Election in Conspiracyland
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Why Do You Hate Me? USA x The Coming Storm x Americast.
A special episode on how social media, and conspiracy theories, are directly impacting the U.S. election in a new way. Who are the Americans sharing their theories online, and what is the real world impact on the election and those people affected by it? Marianna shares insights with Justin from her reporting in the United States for her new BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds podcast Why Do You Hate Me USA, where she hears the views of two women from different backgrounds who believe Trump’s assassination was staged. She also investigates the impact on election workers who are having to work underground. Also joining today’s conversation is Gabriel Gatehouse, presenter of the Coming Storm podcast, which looks at why millions of Americans are convinced their democracy has been hijacked by a sinister Deep State cabal. How did this happen, and what might happen after this November's election regardless of which candidate wins?
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HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, BBC’s Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent
GUEST: Gabriel Gatehouse, presenter of “The Coming Storm” podcast on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | We're going down a rabbit hole. |
| 0:06.3 | We're going through the looking glass. |
| 0:07.4 | We're going into conspiracy land. |
| 0:10.2 | And there are so many conspiracy theories, millions of Americans believed to be true such as these from one polling organization |
| 0:17.0 | 29% apparently believe that voting machines were programmed to change votes in the 2020 election and 41% |
| 0:28.0 | saying there is a single group of people who secretly control events and rule the world together. |
| 0:35.1 | Mariana, we are in your world. |
| 0:37.0 | I know. |
| 0:38.0 | You're my world that you try very hard to not have to be involved in. |
| 0:42.2 | Yeah. We're going to be spending today's podcast talking all about conspiracy theories, how they unfold, |
| 0:47.9 | what they mean, who they affect, who's getting sucked into them, and why this actually matters |
| 0:51.9 | because it's not just a |
| 0:53.0 | fringe quirky other thing anymore it does have a real world impact particularly I |
| 0:57.8 | think when we're talking about this election and what it could mean or what it doesn't |
| 1:01.2 | mean when that election is a very very close one. |
| 1:04.0 | Welcome to AmeriCast down the rabbit hole. |
| 1:06.5 | Americaest. |
| 1:10.0 | AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 1:12.0 | There was blood pouring everywhere and yet I had God on my side. |
| 1:17.2 | So I decided the best way forward is the past torch for a new generation. |
| 1:21.0 | You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? We're effectively |
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