![]() Seaman guested a total of seven times on Rogan's podcast, where he largely discussed topics such as surveillance and bitcoin. Seaman's congressional campaign led to his first invitation to guest on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, a key supporter of these bills. Through these arguments, Seaman started a campaign against U.S. Inspired by his interest in traceless currencies, Seaman began opposing internet bills like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) on the basis of privacy and internet freedom. Following this, Seaman became involved in finance, credit, and cryptocurrencies, leading the development of a (now-defunct) Yelp for credit cards called and joining Cara Santa Maria on her podcast Talk Nerdy. Seaman later wrote for, a financial news site. Reflecting on Seaman's emergence on the conspiracy scene a decade later, Seaman's editor at the time, Moe Tkacik, expressed surprise at the path Seaman had taken, though noted that "his ideas were already bad and self-promotional" as of 2007. The incident led to Seaman's firing from his internship at Jezebel. While preparing the book in 2007, Seaman staged a "Free Paris Hilton" protest in which he attracted only three fellow protestors, but succeeded in entering the local tabloids, interviewing with Nancy Grace on CNN, and getting played off of on Jummy Kimmel and Conan O'Brien's late-night shows. ![]() After attending, but not graduating from New York University, Seaman published Dirty Little Secrets of Buzz: How to Attract Massive Attention to Your Business, Your Product, or Yourself, using those he describes as "publicity whores" to describe how to court virality, including anecdotes about Howard Stern, Tila Tequila, Ann Coulter, Bill Maher, and Donald Trump. After this, Seaman pivoted to presenting himself as a self-promotion guru. In 2016, Seaman was fired from his Huffpost columnist role for promoting conspiracist content, after which he became a major voice in the Pizzagate conspiracy community.ĭavid worked as an intern for the women's magazine Jezebel. Seaman wrote for various publications (including Jezebel,, and The Huffington Post) while styling himself as a 'publicity expert.' By 2012, Seaman had shifted to a political orientation, launching a Libertarian senate campaign and expressing his views on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. David Seaman is a conspiracist primarily known for his promotion of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory both during its initial furor and in subsequent years. ![]()
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