The Kamala Harris Conspiracies Are Here

Leah Feiger: Well, yeah, no, successful your reporting, you shared posts of radical calling her the DEI candidate. That's what's going around, and it's not conscionable Trump successful the nationalist sphere sharing this. These were conspiracies that were legitimately being repeated connected Fox and each implicit the place.

David Gilbert: After those fringe platforms, we saw radical similar Laura Loomer, who would typically beryllium called fringe normally.

Leah Feiger: Yeah, a precise amusive pipeline from the Republican nominee successful Florida for Congressional territory to becoming an American acold close activist.

David Gilbert: But she's go benignant of much mainstream present due to the fact that she's got links to the Trump platform. She...

Leah Feiger: Oh, my God, the thought of calling Laura Loomer mainstream really gives maine afloat assemblage chills.

David Gilbert: I know, but I deliberation we person to due to the fact that she's conscionable integral present to the sermon online successful the Republican Party that, from my constituent of view, astatine slightest she's mainstream GOP now, alternatively than immoderate fringe quality we tin ignore.

Leah Feiger: Yeah, I mean...

David Gilbert: But yeah, you were saying astir Fox News, it precise rapidly moved from backstage Telegram channels, to fringe connection boards, to X, to, arsenic you say, Fox News.

Leah Feiger: Mm-hmm.

David Gilbert: I deliberation it was connected a amusement called Outnumbered, which I'd ne'er heard of before, but it was a big called Julie Banderas, and she was talking astir however her daughters talk much eloquently than Harris, earlier adding that, I deliberation she said, "I'm sorry, conscionable being a number does not marque you acceptable for president." I deliberation a time later, New York Post posted an op-ed saying, "America whitethorn soon beryllium subjected to the country's archetypal DEI president."

Leah Feiger: Right.

David Gilbert: So this is simply a communicative that is being dispersed overnight, practically, from precise fringe, pro-Trump, extremist connection boards to the beforehand pages of newspapers and connected mainstream TV.

Leah Feiger: Is determination immoderate contented moderation astatine all? I mean, successful your reporting, and we should speech astir this, these posts were not small. This really, arsenic you said, went from fringe to mainstream beauteous accelerated and millions and millions of views.

David Gilbert: Yeah, truthful arsenic I said earlier, the platforms similar Gab, and Telegram, nary of the racist oregon misogynistic contented is taken down oregon was taken down. In fact, that's wherefore radical spell determination due to the fact that they tin station that stuff.

Leah Feiger: Right.

David Gilbert: On X, determination is benignant of this veneer that it is simply a mainstream platform, successful that determination is immoderate benignant of rules, and determination are immoderate benignant of contented moderation successful place. But arsenic you said, immoderate of the posts astir this, and 1 of the conspiracies that truly took clasp connected X much than anyplace other was that she's ineligible to beryllium president due to the fact that some her parents were not calved successful the US. Now, this has been debunked truthful galore times.