Episode 31: The U.S. Government Spies on Everyone Conspiracy Theory

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Episode 31: The US Government Is Spying on Everyone

In June 2013, a former National Security Agency contractor named Edward Snowden released to journalists a collection of classified documents that revealed the existence of a global surveillance apparatus operated by the United States government on a scale that almost no one — including most members of Congress — had known existed. The NSA was collecting the phone records of hundreds of millions of Americans. It had built backdoors into major internet companies. It operated a programme called PRISM that gave it direct access to the servers of Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo. It monitored the communications of allied world leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

What had been called a conspiracy theory before June 2013 — the claim that the US government was conducting mass surveillance of its own citizens and the citizens of allied nations — was confirmed as documented fact.

In this episode of The Conspiracy Theory Analyst, we examine the government surveillance conspiracy in the post-Snowden era. We examine what the Snowden documents actually revealed, what the specific programmes were called and what they could access, and what has and has not changed in the decade since those revelations.

We examine the specific capabilities of government surveillance that are now confirmed: the metadata collection programme under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, the PRISM programme, the XKeyscore system that Snowden described as being able to see almost everything a person does on the internet, and the collection of internet traffic at major fibre optic backbone nodes.

We also examine the conspiracy theories that go beyond confirmed Snowden revelations — the claims about smart devices as active listening tools, the theory that surveillance goes far beyond metadata to include content of all communications, and the specific questions about what the intelligence community has built since 2013 that remains classified.

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