“[We’re] fighting lunacy with lunacy”
“[We’re] fighting lunacy with lunacy,” Claire Chronis, one of Peter McIndoe’s Birds Aren’t Real co-conspirators, tells 60 Minutes.
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“[We’re] fighting lunacy with lunacy,” Claire Chronis, one of Peter McIndoe’s Birds Aren’t Real co-conspirators, tells 60 Minutes.
Sharyn Alfonsi meets the founder of Birds Aren't Real, the conspiracy theory parodying conspiracy theories.
On December 14, 2012, a gunman shot and killed 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The new book "Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth" examines how conspiracy theories about the shooting spread. Elizabeth Williamson, the book's author and a writer for the New York Times, joined CBS News' Jericka Duncan and Vladimir Duthiers to discuss.
The false assertions being spread on social media would have readers believe the Biden administration is intentionally driving up the price of gas to get more Americans to buy electric cars.