How 9/11 conspiracy theories moved into mainstream American politics

Type the words “9/11 conspiracy theories” into the search bar of YouTube, and there is no shortage of people lining up to tell you what “really” happened.There are countless videos of commentators like Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson giving their hot takes, alongside a seemingly limitless collection of video accounts blaming the CIA, the “deep state”, or the Illuminati. “Inside Job?” reads the thumbnail of one video that has been viewed more than 500,000 times, before it zooms in on footage of the World Trade Center’s two towers on fire on September 11, 2001.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Houthis advance along Yemen’s southern Red Sea coastlist 2 of 4Pakistan U19 cricketers mistaken for asylum seekers by protesters in UKlist 3 of 4Multicultural Malmo: Swedish city loathed by far right braces for electionlist 4 of 4Yemen’s Houthis seize strategic Red Sea city of Mochaend of listTwenty-five years after two planes flew into the World Trade Center in New York City, killing nearly 3,000 people, the conspiracy theories are still going strong. If anything, they have only continued to gain pace and mutate. While conspiracy theories were once associated with slightly odd people ...