Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Conspiracy theories exploded online in the hours and days after Charlie Kirk’s murder. WIRED reporter David Gilbert hosts a discussion Nina Jankowics, author of “How To Lose The Information War” and Boston University Professor Joan Donovan to investigate why conspiracy theories around Kirk’s death are so potent, what they have in common with past assassination conspiracies, and how they spread so rapidly. This is WIRED: Disinfonation.

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