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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The biggest question about disinformation is, "What do we do about this problem?" Sure, lots of debunking to be done. But what else could be done to prevent disinformation and bring politics back in line with reality? I say we start a movement! Ep 159 of Truth Unrestricted.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026

That basic problem -- the problem of the information environment, which I've banged on about for 20+ years now -- is upstream of *everything* else. There's no simple fix. It's certainly not going to be fixed with clever word choice or policy proposals. You have to shift the deep mythologies.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Have you ever had someone become righteously indignant about a thing and expect you to support them about it when they were objectively in the wrong? If you have, you have experienced what I'm now calling Ironic Righteousness, the topic of ep 158 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If a nation’s military is being run like a business, does that make it a mercenary nation? Asking for a friend…

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ethnonationalism is the belief that a nation should have only one ethnicity. Like a garden that only grows one type of flower. What other ideas spring forth once a person takes on this seemingly innocent idea? This question is explored in ep 157 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. This particular episode, It's Your Funeral, the complicated world of psy ops and fake counternarratives is intertwined with the idea that a person's future could be accurately predicted by a computer.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The ways in which we get the wrong answers are mostly known. It's time to have a look at some of the ways we resist moving to the right answers. Ep 155 of Truth Unrestricted is about the tendency to insist that something is correct even after evidence for it has been removed.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The Election Truth Alliance, despite their explicit claims to the contrary, works to provide conspiracy narratives that encourage election denial. They use confusing statistical analyses and a mystification of technology to create fear and distrust about election results.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The demand for all progress to happen immediately and to an absolute extent becomes its own poison pill that sufficiently hampers any efforts at progress. It is impossible to coordinate when all parties must meet an inexhaustible list of requirements.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. This particular episode, Checkmate, is an exploration of the inner workings of a conspiracy. How do the participants find a way to work together? How does the psychology of risk and trust intertwine? Find out in ep 153 of...

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

\We shouldn't mock those who have become victims of the coercive control of others. But neither should we allow them to have power and influence in our lives and in our governments. You don't have to hate Gabbard to understand that she can't be trusted.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Is it okay to lie in service of a noble cause? Is it okay to support someone else's lie if that lie benefits you? Where do those lies lead? Should we give in to unreality in order to create a better world for ourselves? These questions are asked in ep 152 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. The surreality created by its esthetic has allowed much speculation about its meaning even now 6 decades later. I examine this from the perspective of the conspiratorial mind in ep 150 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Existence Bias is a philosophical concept that explains some of the fundamental behaviour of all known conscious beings. How does that relate to AI and do we think AI will prefer to exist? This question is discussed in ep 149 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Conspiratorial thinking can happen to anyone. When it happens to the people others rely on to lead them out of the darkness it needs to be criticized with vigour. This is my effort to do this with @matthewremski.bsky.social

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

When Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel created the character of Superman in the 1930s they had a specific vision. Has that vision been maligned for other purposes? Is it possible to view the character through the lens of the reality maligned?

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Who and what are the globalists? Why are they talked about so often by people who push conspiracy ideation? And why haven't they provided a list? Does anti-globalism even make any sense? These questions are all answered in ep 145 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Television has changed the world. For the better or for the worse? Intentional or were they incidental? How has the capitalist marketplace intertwined itself with television? All of these questions are discussed in the 1976 classic film Network. Ep 144 of Truth Unrestricted

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

On March 19, Pierre Poilievre was a guest on Joe Rogan. The press went wild waiting for Poilievre to go full conspiracist and, when he didn't, the press collectively gave him a thumbs up. But was that approval warranted? Ep 143 of Truth Unrestricted takes a look.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Decision Paranoia describes one of the primary motivations for conspiratorial thinking. Are you afraid of powerful groups controlling your mind or negatively affecting your decisions? And where does a tin foil hat come from? Ep 142 of Truth Unrestricted

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

What would it be like to date a computer? And what would it like to be conscious but yet confined to the inside of a machine? Are we even real? Ep 141 of Truth Unrestricted examines the 2013 film Her and the intersection with the disinformation age.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

What do you think when you see propaganda? Do you see the same thing that other people see? Come with me as I examine a piece of it now to see if what I see is similar to what you see. Is the WEF a communist front? Is it the Illuminati? Find out in ep 140 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Premier (of Alberta) Danielle Smith has scheduled a referendum for Oct 19. She has 9 questions for Albertans but none about separation. What are they and why would she choose these specific questions? These questions are all answered in ep 139 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The creation of new vocabulary to describe our environment is done to assist in the communication of ideas. If our good ideas need to be expressed faster and more efficiently then maybe we should be finding ways to do that. Truth Unrestricted ep 138 features some examples of this

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Star Wars is escape fiction with a light moral touch in an expandable storytelling universe. In that fictional setting our imaginations can engage and reinterpret to create retroactive continuity to mask poor writing. But how does this affect our relationship with reality?

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Donald Trump is a bully who wants to feel powerful. His influence causes reactions that oppose him. Alberta separatists seek to seize their opportunity to do… something in the middle of this chaos. How should we react?

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Dark City is a film about a secret reality that is being hidden from its residents. What does that look like? What does it lead to? How do we cope with divergent realities? These questions are explored in ep 135 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Hey @rachelgilmore.bsky.social , this looks like it fits your skill set and interest. Who do you think this might be in this Epstein email? Can’t be a whole lot of places that teach polo in Calgary in 2009. Might be interesting to dig into.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Ep 134 of Truth Unrestricted is about how both versions of The Manchurian Candidate affect conspiracy thinking. How does the realism affect the audience's viewing experience? How do the ideas carried by the films and affect our ability to navigate reality?

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Snowden Bishop has attempted to thread the needle between a previous life as a platformer of disinformation and a current life as an advocate for science. Has she done this appropriately? Find out in Ep 133 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I call upon Alex Hale @climatecrisisclub.org to ask Snowden Bishop when her podcast episodes featuring dangerous antivaccine disinformation will be removed from Spotify and iHeartRadio. youtu.be/70ADZbUQf28

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The Manchurian Candidate has long been an idea separated from the film that created the term. The idea that a person could be reshaped and controlled as an assassin has long inspired conspiratorial thinking. So what other ideas from the film inspire these errant notions?

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Subjective reality is the mind's best estimation of what the objective world is. "Best estimation" is doing a *lot* of heavy lifting in that sentence. Ep 130 of Truth Unrestricted takes a look at the ways in which what you know both is and isn't real.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

They Live is a film about wealth inequality, not grand conspiracies. So why do so many people see it as a wink and a nod to their conspiratorial ideas? And how can we use that to understand them better? Ep 129 of Truth Unrestricted dives into this film and its conspiracy ideas.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The US influences many other nations, particularly the English speaking ones. And most Americans don't think much about it. So I decide to talk to @arestlessnative.bsky.social about American Cultural Influence In Scotland. Truth Unrestricted Ep 128.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Inception is a film about the barriers between the real and the imaginary. It provides a rich backdrop for understanding reality. The concept of incepting an idea into another's mind helps us understand the decision paranoia at the heart of all conspiracism.

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Stephanie Kemmerer @doubtisthewayout.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It's always a pleasure to be a guest on Spencers podcast!

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The recent (apparent) heelturn of Marjorie Taylor Greene gives us the perfect reason to discuss how to leave conspiracy beliefs behind. @formerantivax.bsky.social and @doubtisthewayout.bsky.social join me to discuss how to navigate some of our future parasocial relationships with unreal politicians.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Ep 125 of Truth Unrestricted is about the film Wag The Dog and how its ideas intersect with unreal ideas about our world. Also, for a few minutes near the end, I decided to name and shame famous actors who wouldn't be good enough to be crisis actors. Fun stuff. Enjoy.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Ep 124 of Truth Unrestricted is about how the film The Matrix presents ideas that fuel conspiratorial notions and provide building blocks for justifying radically unreal ideas. The value of choices. The nature of fate. The strength of will to shape reality.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

When Dean Withers got surprised by someone asking him point blank why pedophilia is wrong I knew I wanted to tell the world why. So I asked @fixinyouruglies.bsky.social to help and we made Ep 123 of Truth Unrestricted! Why Pedophilia Is Wrong.

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𝒩𝒾𝒸𝑜𝓁𝒶𝓈 𝒸 𝒢𝓇𝑒𝓎 @nicolascgrey.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

This is a excellent podcast with @doubtisthewayout.bsky.social and @spencerwatson.bsky.social . I had a lot of thoughts about it, which I wouldn’t bother to share, but it’s a great listen. ( this is part 2 ) both parts are great. podcasts.apple.com/kh/podcast/t...

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Conspiracy Addiction 2 with Stephanie Kemmerer

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

It's been more than a year since my previous episode dedicated to the shooting in Butler, PA. So when I saw the opportunity to have @scorpionthebird.bsky.social and @quoracthebard.bsky.social on the podcast to discuss it, I jumped at the chance. Ep 212 of Truth Unrestricted (link to follow).

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IntotheStewniverse @intothestewniverse.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Fox Sisters: the original "rap" stars. Tonight at 8:00PM EST

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This is going to divide the internet yet again. One side will proclaim that it’s just one more joyous thing she has given the world and the other will add it to the list of grievous wounds on her ledger. This is how tribes are built.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Everyone who says I shouldn’t criticize Jim Stewartson because I’m “causing division on the left” needs to explain to me why they’re okay with Stewartson causing division on the left. He causes the division. I’m trying to remove the cause of the division.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The conversation occurring in my head: bsky.app/profile/spen...

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Violence is not the answer to our political situation. Showing restraint in the face of belligerence and insult is the best way to prevent the manipulations and machinations of fascists.

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Some people believe that violence is an expression of strength. This isn’t true. Violence is what happens when you don’t have the strength for #Restraint

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