PBS News Weekend helped their brethren at NPR promote a podcast series on Sunday in a segment headlined “How online misinformation is ‘supercharging’ conspiracy theories.” Podcaster Zach Mack made a three-part podcast on how his conservative Christian father has gone down a “rabbit hole” of conspiracy thinking, causing a deep rift in his family. One might imagine doing a podcast on Dad losing his marbles isn’t going to heal the rift.
For a segment on “online misinformation,” it’s not very specific. We get this snippet of shards of conspiracies:
DAD: They’re going to shut us down because of this EMP [electro-magnetic pulse]. All the supply lines are going to be disrupted. So there will be a one-world government with a one-world currency. I think the Biden has probably three or four maybe more body doubles. Obama will be found guilty of treason.
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