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Logline ‘Age of Conspiracy’ (WT) Takes a Closer Look at the World of Conspiracy Theories taglicht media and Hawkeye Pictures Logline ‘Age of Conspiracy’ (WT) takes a closer look at the world of conspiracy theories. Various protagonists, scientists and public characters, will explore the impact and history of conspiracy theories, which represent the dark side of the Enlightenment. These modern religions claim to bring order and meaning into our present world of confusion. 1 Synopsis Suddenly conspiracy theories are everywhere, and everyone is talking about them. Every day, thousands of people are doing research in the dark web for ‘forbidden knowledge’. B-listers inform their fans about their fight against world conspiracy. Long forgotten celebrities regain popularity by spreading crude theories. Protestors wear huge paper ‘Qs’, a secret sign of their conspiracy sect. Even heads of state are using Twitter to gossip: ‘Fake, manipulation, conspiracy’. The world wide web connects average citizens to a scene that has always had a great sense of mission, but never had the technical possibilities to unfold. ..until now. Google’s, YouTube’s and Facebook’s algorithms boost conspiracy theories. Likes represent success. It's only a matter of clicks until a video or an article with confusing theories will be everywhere. The Internet has become Alice in Wonderland's rabbit hole. With every click, truth seekers of all kind are getting more and more drawn into a fantasy world of conspiracy theories. ©! taglicht media ·!Film- &!Fernsehproduktion!GmbH!·!Cäsarstraße!58!·!D-50968!Köln!·!T!+49!(0)221!34!90!90!·! www.taglichtmedia.de 2 In ‘Conspiracy Land’, HAARP is a weapon for weather control, which has caused Hurricane Katrina. Commercial airliners drop chemicals to make people sick, infertile or homosexual. The Bilderbergers are a circle of secret conspirators who decide the fate of the world at their annual meetings. The British Royals are an ancient race of reptiloids. They have lived among humans for thousands of years and they are able to change shape. It is an exciting world and it is full of secrets. Especially in times of a pandemic, which demands discipline and perseverance from citizens, rumors about the coronavirus are particularly dangerous. Conspiracy theories range from simple denigration to absurdism: Bill Gates is suspected of world conspiracy; others question the existence of the disease. Still others blame the radiation from 5G mobile phone towers for the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Therefore, activists around the world set mobile phone masts on fire. Are we living in the Age of Conspiracy? Crazy theories are flooding the Internet. Platforms like YouTube and Facebook or confusing chat programs like Discord offer unexpected possibilities to conspiracy theorists and their supporters to share their theories. A race for truth, which fact-checkers and journalists seem to be losing. ©! taglicht media ·!Film- &!Fernsehproduktion!GmbH!·!Cäsarstraße!58!·!D-50968!Köln!·!T!+49!(0)221!34!90!90!·! www.taglichtmedia.de 3 It is not the first time that technology has accelerated the spreading of conspiracy theories. Before the Age of Enlightenment, conspiracy theories hardly occurred at all. Rumors, exclusively spread by governments and the educated, about secret and harmful changes were used by the powerful as a secret weapon to dominate others. After the invention of the letterpress, this “knowledge” made its way into a broader public. Along with knowledge came conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories have been on everyone's lips since the 17th century. Technical innovations made it possible to spread knowledge further and further. But the Internet surpasses everything that had ever existed before. A single smartphone user can reach an audience of millions. Entire conspiracy subcultures meet online. Conspiracy theorists become popstars and multimillionaires – thanks to hundreds of thousands of fans. ©! taglicht media ·!Film- &!Fernsehproduktion!GmbH!·!Cäsarstraße!58!·!D-50968!Köln!·!T!+49!(0)221!34!90!90!·! www.taglichtmedia.de 4 Popstars! of Fake!News In the past, conspiratorial world narratives were printed in limited editions by obscure publishers and reached just a very small readership. Thanks to the Internet, publication is no longer an obstacle. Now, conspiracy theories can reach millions. Conspiracy theorists are mushrooming all over the world. In Great Britain, former sports reporter David Icke is spreading stories of shape-shifting reptiles which secretly control the world. In Germany, singer Xavier Naidoo addresses his fans and spreads theories inspired by the American Alt-Right movement. Kopp Verlag, a German publishing house, makes a fortune by selling books on esotericism, occult phenomena, and conspiracy theories. Among the Top 10 most visited German news sites is now ‘KenFM’, a platform run by former radio presenter Ken Jebsen. Mixing activism and investigative journalism he regularly feeds his fans with new conspiracy theories. ©! taglicht media ·!Film- &!Fernsehproduktion!GmbH!·!Cäsarstraße!58!·!D-50968!Köln!·!T!+49!(0)221!34!90!90!·! www.taglichtmedia.de 5 The king of conspiracy theorists is most likely Alex Jones. For more than 20 years he has been spreading his stories. Formerly over the radio. Then he built a private media empire, based on his website ‘Infowars’. Alex Jones is no longer a nobody. He is a star. In 2018 his site was visited 1.4 million times at an average – per day. His YouTube channel used to have 2.4 million subscribers and 1.6 billion clicks before it got shut down. Jones, a self-proclaimed resistance fighter against evil of all kind has a reaches more people than some major newspapers, such as Newsweek and The Economist . Conspiracy theories as mass entertainment. Jones mainly focuses his interest on what he calls the ‘New World Order’. He also produced a documentary film about it which is titled ‘Endgame’. From his point of view, a global elite has conspired against the majority. Part of this elite are the Freemasons, Bilderbergers, the Atlantic Bridge, the American Catastrophe Management Agency FEMA and the military-industrial complex. These conspirators manipulate history, commit murders, stage wars and carry out terrorist attacks under false flags. According to Jones, leaders of the world are a bunch of satanic pedophiles, possessed by demons. And their aim is a genocide. Only 500 million people will survive and are g oing to be confined in reservations. Having done so, the world leaders can live a happy life in the most beautiful places on earth. They will genetically transform themselves into supermen and ultimately expand into space. Millions of loyal followers believe in Jones. But he probably has more profane interests than enlightening mankind. His theories of allegedly staged school shootings foil all efforts of ‘Gun Control’ in the USA. His online shop offers products to protect from threats he has made up. This kind of business has made him a multimillionaire. Before they split up, Alex Jones was a passionate supporter of Donald Trump. His election recommendation for the then presidential candidate reached millions of fans. When Jones interviewed him for his show, Trump showed no fear of contact towards the community of conspiracy theorists. This is no coincidence. For Trump, conspiracy theorists as more than just potential voters. He himself is one of them. ©! taglicht media ·!Film- &!Fernsehproduktion!GmbH!·!Cäsarstraße!58!·!D-50968!Köln!·!T!+49!(0)221!34!90!90!·! www.taglichtmedia.de 6 Conspiracy Central With Donald Trump, a proven conspiracy theorist has become president of the United States. He is supported by a dedicated community. He uses Twitter to share his reality with the general public. It is proven that he spreads lies and conspiracies of all kinds. For his most fanatical followers, Trump is the long-awaited heroic fighter against all evil. This group is called QAnon, founded by a Reddit user called ‘Q’. Q claims to be a senior government official, who reports on the president's fight against the ‘Deep State’. The Deep State is said to be a Satanic conspiracy. A group of high government officials and Hollywood stars kidnap and abuse children. They remove their organs in order to obtain an anti-aging drug. From QAnon's point of view, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Barack Obama, famous Hollywood actors and singers are amongst the conspirators. They are bestial Satanists. The political enemy is turned into a monster. ©! taglicht media ·!Film- &!Fernsehproduktion!GmbH!·!Cäsarstraße!58!·!D-50968!Köln!·!T!+49!(0)221!34!90!90!·! www.taglichtmedia.de 7 We will probably never know whether Trump really believes in these theo ries or if he just skillfully exploits the delusion of his fans. But consequences are real: In 2016, for example, armed Edgar M. Welch stormed the pizzeria Comet Ping Pong in Washington. He wanted to free the children who were allegedly being held there in the basement by Jo Podesta and Hillary Clinton. On another occasion, a group called ‘Veterans on Patrol’ searched a homeless camp because the expected it to be a hidden children's sex camp. In another incident, a man blocked the Hoover Dam with his shielded truck for about 90 minutes. He demanded the release of certain reports, which according to Q had been withheld from the public. In 2019, Frank Cali, a member of the Mafia, was gunned down in New York by 24 year old Anthony Cornello. In court, Cornello’s lawyer e xplained that his client was a supporter of Q's theories: for him Frank Cali was a member of the great conspiracy against Trump. For QAnon even the coronavirus is a scam. To fight COVID-19, the group is recommending Miracle Mineral Solution, a dangerous, bleach- like substance that can cause kidney failure. Several deaths can be attributed to this practice. QAnon has become more than just an association of conspiracy theorists. It is a sect that reaches deep into American society. In 2018, a patch displaying a Q was spotted on the jacket of a member of a SWAT team.
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