crisis actor Concepts

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words

appeared on Alex Jones’s Infowars radio show. Jones was already infamous for claiming the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting were “crisis actors.” Despite the despicable nature of Jones’s rhetoric, Trump praised him on air, saying, “Your reputation is amazing.” Trump would go on to repeat Infowars

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://www.npr.org/2018/11/20/669761157/fbi-categorizes-proud-boys-as-extremist-group-with-ties-to-white-nationalism. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “crisis actors”: Shannon Bond, “How Alex Jones Helped Mainstream Conspiracy Theories into American Life,” NPR, August 6, 2022, https://www.npr.org/2022/08/06/1115936712/how

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson · 14 Apr 2020 · 491pp · 141,690 words

were interviewed on the corporate news give unrealistic and overly-detailed descriptions of what they claim to have witnessed. • Alleged victims are discovered to be crisis actors that appear in multiple events, promoting faked or staged cell phone footage to further push the intended account of events or to authenticate the story

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

by Lee McIntyre · 14 Sep 2021 · 407pp · 108,030 words

really would be over. But how could I let him get away with this hogwash? He began to talk about how the Parkland kids were “crisis actors.” That the mom of one of the “victims” said, “I don’t want thoughts and prayers, I want gun control,” which made him a little

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

by Jesselyn Cook · 22 Jul 2024 · 321pp · 95,778 words

of views. Alex Jones’s Infowars became one of the most artificially recommended political channels on the site, while videos labeling school shooting survivors as “crisis actors” soared to the top spot on the trending page. It was symbiotic: To mine users’ attention like gold from the earth, YouTube wasn’t just

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soon trended on Twitter as vigilantes encouraged each other to expose the media’s lies. Even Fox News was airing suspicions. Anons were convinced that crisis actors were posing as grieving loved ones in front of news cameras and that doctors were being paid off to stay silent about the truth or

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/unite-the-right-how-youtubes-recommendation-algorithm-connects-the-u-s-far-right-9f1387ccfabd. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT labeling school shooting survivors as “crisis actors”: M. Strachan, “A Conspiracy Theory About a Stoneman Douglas Student Reaches No. 1 on YouTube,” HuffPost, February 21, 2018, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/youtube

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-explained. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Second Amendment fanatics: D. Arkin and B. Popken, “How the Internet’s Conspiracy Theorists Turned Parkland Students into ‘Crisis Actors,’ ” NBC News, February 21, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-internet-s-conspiracy-theorists-turned-parkland-students

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-crisis-actors-n849921. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT stemming from rational hypervigilance: M. Bilewicz, “Conspiracy Beliefs as an Adaptation to Historical Trauma,” Current Opinion in Psychology

Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

by Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin · 7 Nov 2023 · 348pp · 110,533 words

white for “teaching the kids a lesson,” saying that they had used the “perfect weapons” for the job. They believed the injured civilians were just crisis actors, that all the victims were protesters and legitimate targets. The men in white had helped police punish people who were disrespectful of their government and

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein · 11 Sep 2023

” at home). About ISIS beheadings of U.S. and British captives (possibly not real murders, but staged covert ops by the U.S. government starring crisis actors). About the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, on allegations that he sexually assaulted a housekeeper in

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that restroom in Manhattan. Her earlier forays into unfounded conspiracies were frequently offensive and no doubt hurtful to those who she hinted were spies or crisis actors. But they never put large numbers of people into active danger. With Covid, that changed. And when it came to the notorious “vaccine shedding” fiction

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

by Max Fisher · 5 Sep 2022 · 439pp · 131,081 words

had been faked. Jones had pushed versions of this since the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, when he called the murdered twenty children and six teachers “crisis actors” in a vague government plot to justify confiscating guns or imposing martial law. The conspiracy had spread on YouTube ever since, consumed by growing numbers

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

by Clive Thompson · 26 Mar 2019 · 499pp · 144,278 words

speeches led to left-wing conspiracy theories and 9/11 “truthers.” At Columbia University, the researcher Jonathan Albright experimentally searched on YouTube for the phrase “crisis actors,” in the wake of a major school shooting, and took the “next up” recommendation from the recommendation system. He quickly amassed 9,000 videos, a

News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World

by Alan Rusbridger · 26 Nov 2020 · 371pp · 109,320 words

on April 7. Maybe Robert Fisk’s mysterious doctor has it right – and maybe the hundreds of survivors and eyewitnesses to the attack are all “crisis actors.”’ To add to the confusion, others rushed to defend Fisk, including the anti-corporatist ‘media criticism’ website Media Lens, whose exoneration began: ‘UK corporate media

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15

by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson · 25 Sep 2023 · 525pp · 166,724 words

Americans. People took to social media and discussion groups to argue, without any facts, that the school massacre had been staged by what they labeled “crisis actors.” They harassed the Wheelers in particular because they had done some acting before having children. Connecticut lawmakers responded quickly to the parents’ pleas. The small