20 years after September 11, conspiratorial stories about September 11 continue to circulate on the Internet and social networks. Their diffusion is even experiencing a new dynamic with the advent of movements such as Qanon in the United States, whose supporters are convinced of the existence of an all-powerful and evil deep state.
This is the case of Heather Bauer, a young American who was 14 years old in 2001. She is convinced that these attacks are the work of the United States and not of Al-Qaeda.
“I question absolutely everything, and I wonder what is true in everything we are told about history,” said this housewife from Wisconsin, in the northern United States, also convinced that Covid-19 does not exist.
For years she believed in “official” version, until she became interested in the conspiracy theories developed by the QAnon movement. She now believes the attacks were orchestrated to justify the Iraq war launched in 2003.
It is part of the movement said for the truth on 9/11, who tirelessly discusses on social media “evidence” that the World Trade Center towers collapsed after a controlled explosion, not because two airliners crashed into them.
One of the explanations often put forward is that “kerosene cannot melt steel bars”, and that it took explosives to bring down the towers so vertically. These allegations, developed in great detail over the past twenty years, have been regularly refuted by the press and documentaries.
Explosion d’internet
Several conferences are organized – with the public – as part of the anniversary to discuss September 11, but also the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and vaccines.
Thus the 17th edition of “9/11 Truth Film Festival”, in Oakland, Calif., aired two documentaries that auditors say are riddled with false information about the virus.
“There are so many things we want to talk about, and we only have eight hours.”, laments Carol Brouillet, organizer of the event and founder of the Alliance for the Truth on 9/11 in Northern California. There is no lack of material. One of the guests, Ken Jenkins, single-handedly produced dozens of DVDs on the attacks, according to the festival’s website.
9/11 conspiracy theories were the first to benefit from the internet explosion and spread much faster than older theses, such as those on the Internet.assassination of President Kennedy or the foot of Neil Armstrong on the Moon. “America is a remarkably conspiratorial country”, launches Garrett Graff, journalist and author of a book on the subject.
De l’anthrax au Covid
These theories “arose at the precise moment when social networks or online media like YouTube enabled people to communicate their ideas in a convincing way”, he said.
The Commission of Jurists for an Inquiry into 9/11 is organizing an online conference for the 20th anniversary, which will also discuss Covid-19.
The event is named “from 9/11 anthrax to pandemic”, in reference to the envelopes containing this deadly substance sent to politicians and journalists for a few weeks in September 2001.
For Mick Harrison, organizer, the fight against the official version of the attacks is a civic duty. “I am trying to improve this country by making the government more democratic, more accountable and more transparent”, he says
President Joe Biden’s decision to declassify certain documents investigation of the attacks, and the possible responsibility of Saudi Arabia, could dispel doubts … or revive conspiracy theories.
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