‘I Believed Sandy Hook Was a Hoax’

‘I Believed Sandy Hook Was a Hoax’

Kate grew up believing the Sandy Hook school shooting was an elaborate false flag operation. For years she thought the 20 elementary school children and six educators who were killed that day did not actually die, but were played by crisis actors. And then, one day – in a matter of minutes – suddenly Kate realized how wrong she was.

Brian talks to Kate about what it’s like to realize you believed something so obviously wrong, so deeply damaging, for so long. And he argues that her story is a case study for reforming Section 230 – the 1996 law that gives tech companies massive immunity from getting sued over what people post. Without that law, platforms like YouTube, which amplified the lies about Sandy Hook that Kate once believed, could be taken to court by the Sandy Hook families.

Check out our Substack, with more reporting on the war on truth, free speech, and tech companies’ role in it all.

“Question Everything” is a production of KCRW and Placement Theory.

Guests:

  • Kate, a former conspiracy believer
  • Dr. Joan Donovan, disinformation scholar and Director of the Critical Internet Studies Institute at Boston University

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