Extremist Groups (with more Will Sommer)

<p>" There are things we feel like we know that we we can't even say. It is even worse. worse. It is even more people."</p> <p>Journalist Tara Palmeri and our own Adam Davidson have been writing and podcasting about the Epstein case since 2019. There's so much new Epstein news th ... Show More

The Curator of the NSA’s National Cryptologic Museum knows if the government is watching you. He knows how to tell who’s doing hidden nuclear testing. He’s written about some of the wilder (and unsuccessful) endeavors by the CIA, and how the CIA build Miami, the second largest hu ... Show More

Jordan Klepper has heard a lot of 9/11 conspiracy theories, 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 h ... Show More

<p class=""><strong>Introduction</strong></p> <p class="">Conspiracies happen. Sometimes there really are people who are plotting. Sometimes people use their power to undermine the power of others and harm people for their own personal gain. Sometimes, your paranoia is justified. ... Show More

<p class=""><strong>Introduction</strong></p> <p class="">Conspiracies happen. Sometimes there really are people who are plotting. Sometimes people use their power to undermine the power of others and harm people for their own personal gain. Sometimes, your paranoia is justified. ... Show More

<p><strong>Mick West</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/mickwest" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@mickwest</a>) is a co-founder and former technical director of Neversoft Entertainment, coder, pilot, Metabunk and  Contrail Science founder, and author of <em><a href ... Show More

<p class=""><strong>Introduction</strong></p> <p class="">Conspiracies happen. Sometimes there really are people who are plotting. Sometimes people use their power to undermine the power of others and harm people for their own personal gain. Sometimes, your paranoia is justified. ... Show More

<p>Abby, Patrick, and Dan welcome the incomparable Liz Franczak of TrueAnon! The topic is conspiracy theories, from real to imagined, documented to discredited, ludicrous to all-too-likely, and more. The first half of the episode is ground-clearing and working through some basic ... Show More

From immigrants eating pets, to Jewish space lasers starting wildfires, to 9/11 ‘trutherism’, our disordered world – and particularly the rhetoric surrounding the 2024 US Election – is awash with conspiracy theories. Are these theories: ways of venting anti-establishment anger, m ... Show More

Journalist Andrew Callaghan sits down with 20 conspiracy theorists to debate four hot-button claims: QAnon has no basis in fact, 9/11 was carried out by Al-Qaeda, Hunter Biden’s laptop doesn’t prove corruption, and the earth is round. What happens when one journalist goes head-to ... Show More

Often in the mainstream media the term "conspiracy theory" is used as a way of dismissing a claim or idea immediately -- and it's a technique that works more often than you might think. However, despite the ardent efforts of various powerful groups across the planet, numerous eve ... Show More