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In conversation with Michael McVeigh, Arbuckle discusses his work, cultural anthropology, and the impact of 'cultural trauma'. By Michael McVeigh

Potential to get as huge as it's become. >> but in the last decade, conspiracy thinking has gone mainstream, and it may not be entirely our fault. >> if you're a democrat and i'm a republican, the algorithm is incentivized to push us apart. >> tonight we're taking a closer look at a system that's designed to stoke paranoia and play off our fears. >> it's psychological warfare with us as children. >> to meet someone who dove headfirst into a conspiracy theory. >> i can't get you that information. >> i couldn't stop thinking about it, and it broke me. >> and someone who's still very much in it. ...

Reads the suspect, quote, appeared to operate a website on which he wrote a wide variety of posts touching on almost all manner of conspiracy thinking, aliens, jewish people, communism, vaccines, voter fraud, many other topics, morrow also outlining that for us at the top. what responsibility do elected leaders have? will this make it through this congress or the next about how to deal with these things? >> look, as senator klobuchar said, every single elected official has a responsibility to call out and respond to this and stop feeding the lies that we know are feeding the energy around this...