and to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with we will stop the steal welcome to watch Mojo and today we're taking a closer look at 10 conspiracy theories that actually affected the real world he doesn't mention Nancy or Paul Pelosi by name but shares a conspiracy that he believes a number of individuals are part of that's hurting democracy for this list we're looking at high profile cases in which conspiracy theories have had real consequences there have been real conspiracies in history such as Watergate and big tobaccos operation Berkshire conspiracy theories however postulate conspiracies to explain events often in ways that ignore probable explanations cherry-pick evidence and can't be falsified have you watched close friends or family members get lost on the misinformation Rabbit Hole share your experiences with us in the comments satanic Panic Studies have linked violent Behavior to the game saying it promotes satanic worship ritual sacrifice moral panics over ritual abuse aren't new Romans accused early Christians of murdering children Christians did the same to Jews in medieval times and it was also a feature of witch hunts what makes you think she is a witch well she turned me into a newt newt I got better such a panic swept through the U. S in the 1980s as conservative religious reactionaries accused heavy metal musicians and Dungeons and Drgons players of promoting satanism false accusations of ritual abuse bolstered by the now discredited practice of recovered memory therapy led to 12 000 unsubstantiated cases dozens of daycare workers were brought to trial the most infamous case against the McMartin family lasted seven years before charges were dropped the conspiracy theory endures today in new forms such as Illuminati theories and the Q Anon movement which targets actors Democrats and the so-called deep State now because of the internet ferreting out Satan is now sort of a participatory misinformation Quest 5G misinformation anxiety around new technology is normal and caution about our health is healthy but 5G conspiracy theories have spun wildly out of control your body can't help enhanced communication relies on electromagnetic radiation specifically the range of frequencies called radio waves radio frequency radiation is non-ionizing it doesn't have enough energy to knock electrons from atoms and damage our cells it can convert into heat and thus be harmful at very high levels of exposure which shower devices and networks are well below right now the FCC requires that every phone on the market be tested and given a value corresponding to the amount of radiation it emits it says that value is well below the point at which adverse health effects could occur 5G the fifth generation of Wireless technology operates at a higher frequency than 4G but still relatively low on the Spectrum nonetheless conspiracy theories have blamed it for cancer the spread of covid-19 and even the deaths of bees this has erupted in protests and sabotage especially in the UK where 5G Towers have been set on fire now they even claim that it's linked to the coronavirus pandemic and impassioned Disciples of burning down mobile phone Moss around the world spreading misinformation encouraging people to ignore safety measures and interfering with vital communication Services Sandy Hook alt-right radio host Alex Jones has promoted a host of deranged conspiracy theories on his fake news show and website Infowars at that point and I do think there's some cover of Ms manipulation that is pretty much what I believe but then I was also going a devil's advocate but then we know there's mass shootings these things happen so again you're trying to have it always right no I'm not if you wrongly went out there and said it was a hoax that's wrong his most infamous claim is that the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting was staged and that the gunman's 26 victims were only actors as parents grieved their children Jones spread falsehoods online claiming that it was all a ploy to take guns away sending his revenue and viewership soaring this fueled years of harassment including death threats towards the families of victims I am a mother first and foremost and I know that you're a father and my son existed enraged conspiracy theorists told bereaved parents that their children never existed the families sued Jones and in 2022 were awarded 1. 487 billion dollars in Damages Jones has blamed globalists who he says are out to get him it seems absurd to instruct you again that you must tell the truth while you testify yet here I am you must tell the truth while you testify this is not your show pizzagate amid a perfect storm of fake news and political polarization this alt-right conspiracy theory went viral in the run-up to the 2016 United States presidential election in November of that year the personal emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John podesta were leaked online the Clinton campaign not responding to individual documents instead accusing the Russians of orchestrating the hack to help Donald Trump win proponents of the conspiracy theory claim to have uncovered dirt on Democrats in the form of coded messages implicating liberals and a Washington DC Pizzeria in a human trafficking ring on November 7th the hashtag Pizza gate was born and by November 16th people started showing up at the restaurant to investigate for themselves in a sense it was a Resurgence of the satanic Panic complete with accusations of ritual abuse the restaurant owner James elephantis and his staff received death threats and on December 4th a North Carolina man fired three rounds inside having decided to quote self-investigate pizzagate will become a forerunner to Q Anon Q Anon has an Evangelical aspect where followers encourage each other to convert friends and families they call it red pilling a reference from The Matrix films Helter Skelter in the Summer of Love in San Francisco 1967 singer-songwriter Charles Manson preached a message of Hope and salvation Charlie it saw a good thing when he realized that if somebody ran around and talked like a guru in that day and age especially up in San Francisco you could gather a group of followers in no time but he was not who he seemed a master manipulator with a criminal record that included theft forgery and sex trafficking Manson preyed on impressionable young women in the counterculture of the 60s to build a doomsday cult known as the Manson family he was a white supremacist who believed that black Americans would initiate an apocalyptic race war and choose Manson as their Master he said the black man was going to win this war but he said black he only knows what he's told him to do and they're not going to be able to handle the reins of power so they're gonna have to turn over the range to those white people who had survived helderscore I.
E Charles Manson his family according to his conspiracy theory it was all foretold in the Beatles song Helter Skelter [Music] foreign the ideology may have been a motive in the family's murders of six people in August 1969 including actress Sharon Tate over two nights in August 1969 actress Sharon Tate and six others had been slain in one of the Century's most infamous crimes the anti-vaxx movement ultimately you are the person most invested in your health and doing real research with reliable sources is important however that is not the basis of the anti-vaxx movement in 1998 British physician Andrew Wakefield published a paper alleging a link between the MMR vaccine and autism I could no longer support the MMR vaccine I would continue to vigorously support the use of single vaccines spaced out that the safety studies of MMR vaccine were not there they were not adequate investigations revealed he'd falsified data and had been paid over four hundred thousand pounds by lawyers who wanted to sue vaccine manufacturers reportedly he expected to make 43 million dollars a year selling diagnostic kits wakefield's paper was retracted and his medical license revoked I think what we now know is that the Lancet paper which was always felt to be bad science is a deliberate fraud that was perpetrated in order to try to show a link between the vaccine and autism nonetheless his work kicked off the modern anti-vaxx movement reductions in vaccinations have led to outbreaks around the world in 2019 reported cases of measles were the highest in 23 years once declared eradicated in the United States measles outbreaks are rattling regions of the country again this year there have been more than 200 confirmed cases in just the past few months Trump's big lie we have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated lawfully slated former president Donald Trump has peddled a long list of conspiracy theories such as the birther movement around Barack Obama's citizenship after he lost his bid for a second term in 2020 he claimed the election had been rigged and led a campaign to overturn the results and reinstall himself as president so he said something to the effect of I don't want people to know we lost mark this is embarrassing figure it out we need to figure it out however his pressure on state and federal officials failed courts threw out 63 lawsuits which failed to substantiate their conspiratorial claims and recounts some by machine and some by hand confirmed Biden's win nonetheless Trump's falsehoods about a stolen election inspired the January 6 United States capital attack in 2021 As Trump supporters among them neo-fascists and far-right militias assaulted police and stormed the building for some it was just a rally for their president for others it was a call to Arms march on Congress directly after Trump's speech the attack left five dead and four distraught officers later took their own lives Arabia in his Manifesto far-right extremist Anders Breivik cited British writer bakya Orr's concept of urabia a conspiracy theory that political Elites are plotting to islamize Europe so this is a a kind of a surrender of Europe yes it is yes certainly on July 22nd 2011 90 minutes after disseminating his Manifesto online Breivik exploded a car bomb in also Norway killing eight people he moved on to a summer camp on the island of utoya organized by the youth wing of the Norwegian labor party shooting and killing a further 67. we all have the Sensation that an act of war was really taking place brevik saw himself as a knight opposing Muslim immigration into Europe in 2019 Australian terrorist Brenton Tarrant would cite Breivik as inspiration for his attacks on two mosques in Christchurch New Zealand which left 51 people dead Branson tyrant opened fire at two mosques in Christchurch killing 51 people it's just an animal this guy is an animal Terence own Manifesto cited the great replacement Theory a similar far-right conspiracy theory about Muslim immigration HIV AIDS denialism conspiracy theories about HIV AIDS have circulated since it was recognized as a global epidemic in the 1980s a Soviet disinformation campaign operation infection sought to propagate belief it was made in the USA this is when a remarkable story appears in a newspaper called The Patriot it claims the HIV virus was secretly created by U.
