Yeah, and what I noticed after the tragedy is that people were affected by this.
So most people responded, of course, with compassion and the people that didn’t responded with kind of hate. And that took on the form of all of the accusations that started.Īnd that hate manifested itself with blaming. There’s always been conspiracy theories, but this took on an amplification level and I would say a hate level that was unprecedented. It did, and there was something about the timing of this and the evolution of the internet that really, I’ve heard it referred to as the canary in the coal mine for this type of expansion and these ideas. So it made me angry when I saw that right away. I had entertained many conspiracy theories.
And of course, I was familiar with Alex Jones. But to hear them directed at me and what I was going through was extremely upsetting.