Glenn Greenwald

At MIT, exactly.

And a lot of the speculation, some of it turned out to be false.

Others of it turned out to be very unfounded.

And a lot of people are...

not unreasonably, that one of the problems with this kind of online sleuth thing is that it often leads to politically motivated speculation or things.

Okay, I agree with that.

I do think that's an issue.

The reason that happens, though, is because of the inability or refusal of people in power and in authorities to answer the most basic questions, to give us the most basic information about a crime that, of course, is a great concern to huge numbers of people and ought to be.

And it's in that vacuum of like this evasive kind of answer, this refusal to give any kind of, to be accountable in any way that citizens start thinking, we can't trust the police.

We can't trust investigators.

They lied to us.

They're incompetent.

They cover things up.

And this is why you see so much of this kind of doubting, like with the Charlie Kirk shooting or with any kind of crime, any kind of major event where people no longer trust institutions of authority.

And I think in that exchange,

You see the reason, like if that's the reason they turned off the cameras, say so.

Were the cameras turned off?

Like why can't you just give straight answers on that?

And when we don't get those, that's when people start thinking we have to figure out on our own and we can't trust the information we're being given.

And although it can be a problem because it leads to false speculation that spreads like wildfire, it's also the fault of the people who are supposed to be exercising this power responsibly when they do things that make other people lose trust in what they're saying.