But as his fellow agent reminds him, “This isn’t a clean job, Cole. What follows is a fascinating discussion between Turner and his comrade concerning the morality of their assignment.
Allowing this idea to spread is dangerous, though, so Turner must steal all of the woman’s research, thus dooming her again to the truth: that her son really is dead. Overwhelmed by grief, she slowly begins to buy into the conspiracy that the shooting was faked, if only because doing so gives her a slim hope that her son is still alive somewhere.
In the first volume’s most heart-wrenching issue, Turner and another agent visit a woman targeted for abuse by conspiracy theorists (including a certain Alex Jones-like figure) after her son was killed in a school shooting. The Department is up against some truly insidious and devilish forces, namely the Black Hat organization, but combatting them sometimes requires doing terrible things of their own. Ĭole’s new mission is easier said than done, however, and fraught with moral quandaries and gray areas. Note: The following contains potential spoilers for The Department of Truth, Volume 1. Or is it?īefore Turner can make sense of anything he’s seen, he’s rescued and subsequently recruited by operatives from The Department of Truth, an ultra-covert organization led by Lee Harvey Oswald - yes, that Lee Harvey Oswald - whose mission is to prevent conspiracy theories from gaining traction in the zeitgeist and reshaping reality. His research leads him to a Flat Earth conference, where the conference’s shady organizers give him shocking proof that the Earth, as it turns out, is actually flat. QAnon isn’t absolute nonsense there actually is a cabal of Satanic cannibal pedophiles who control Washington and Hollywood and run a global sex-trafficking ring - and Donald Trump is the only person who can stop them.Īs an FBI agent, Cole Turner studies conspiracy theories and online extremism for a living. Donald Trump didn’t lose the 2020 election the election was actually stolen from him. Vaccines are no longer scientific wonders that alleviate human suffering they’re actually harmful tools of control. School shootings are no longer national tragedies they’re actually false flag operations intended to bring about stricter gun laws. In the last few years, they’ve come to dominate and undermine our social, political, and cultural discourse to an increasingly disturbing extent. We live in a day where conspiracy theories are no longer the purview of obscure internet forums, kooky uncles, and people who’ve taken one too many bong rips.
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