How QAnon Conspiracy Theories Spread in My Hometown
▻https://theintercept.com/2020/09/23/qanon-conspiracy-theory-colorado
During the pandemic, some of the people I grew up with got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement. Earlier this summer, I noticed this alarming shift in my Facebook feed. Childhood friends and old high school acquaintances began plastering my timeline with posts referring to a satanic cabal of pedophile elites, including hysterical, unfounded claims about the proliferation of child sex trafficking and cultural or political efforts to “normalize” pedophilia. During (...)
