Spike Lee, famous filmmaker…and 9-11 Truther?
Pop culture reporter Reggie Ugwu delivered a mostly fawning interview promoting Lee’s Home Box Office docuseries on the pandemic and the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks, New York Epicenters 9/11-2021½.
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At a time when news reports are awash with warnings about misinformation and conspiracy theories, it’s surprising that more attention is not being paid to the fact that filmmaker Spike Lee has just come out as a 9/11 truther and HBO has agreed to spread his crazy conspiracy theory.
In March of 2020, HBO aired a Brian Stelter-produced documentary titled After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News, which typically focused on how a “mainstream media” dedicated to truth had to expose and defeat pro-Trump kooks and grifters, like InfoWars claiming the Sandy Hook school shooting was faked.
New York Times TV critic James Poniewozik celebrated Stelter, a Times alumnus, for his focus: “its strongest animating idea is that fake news is not simply a political abstraction. It’s a real offense that harms real people.”
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