It has been 20 years since the tragic events of 9/11 and in those two decades the world has changed. The Pentagon was repaired and New York City recovered, even if the day wasn't forgotten. In fact, much like December 7, 1941, the late summer day will forever be remembered as it rightfully should.
However, even after all these years the 9/11 Truth movement also lives on, as do the countless conspiracy theories. Even as the official report should have to put to rest the most dubious of claims – "jet fuel cannot melt steel beams" or that the World Trade Center's Twin Towers demolished by explosives – the conspiracy theories continue and are widely shared on social media.
"9/11 was the first major crisis to take place in the social media era," said Prof. Sinnreich. "While MySpace, Facebook and YouTube didn't exist, there were proto-versions of other social media sites, and web 2.0 was already starting to show the capacity for viral media to be shared."
That of course included the images of the second plane hitting the World Trade Center, the buildings coming down and the aftermath as many people were covered in dust.
"So much sentiment could be condensed to just a couple of megabytes and shared around the world," added Sinnreich.
But just as how early social media allowed the events of 9/11 to be shared, it also created an opportunity for conspiracies to grow more rapidly. In the days before the Internet, conspiracy theories largely were confined to books and magazines, and...
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