8. Epilogue

The Coming Storm

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

QAnon and the plot to break reality...

Gabriel Gatehouse has something to confess. Throughout the making of the series he’s been developing his own conspiracy theory. It’s about a book, called The Sovereign Individual, written by two men who were also pushing stories about the Clintons in the 1990s.

Were the people who seeded the myths that led to QAnon involved in a vast conspiracy to break reality, to divide and conquer and divvy up the spoils?

Gabriel seeks to understand the book, a favourite amongst the tech billionaires of Silicon Valley. They think a new version of the web, based on crypto and blockchain, will bring about the next step in the societal shift driven by the internet. What would that mean for democracy?

Producer: Lucy Proctor

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Hi, welcome back to the coming storm.
0:09.0	If you've already listened through to all seven episodes,
0:12.0	you'll be wondering, what's this? Well, when we got to the end of the
0:16.1	series, we realized there was something else, something we hadn't dealt with, so we decided to make an extra episode. Here it is. It's Wednesday, 24th of March, it's about 4 PM or 1,600 hours, GMT, if you like that kind of thing, can you just tell us what on earth is going on here?
0:49.2	Yeah, so obviously there's a story about the container ship, the large container ship that is blocking the
0:56.6	the Swiss canal right now.
0:59.0	This is Cheyenne Sadaizade.
1:01.7	He's a BBC colleague colleague an expert on disinformation.
1:05.0	As soon as I woke up, I started checking to see what they were saying and it was like, wow,
1:10.0	Q&N circles are going a buzz with this story and I saw... We recorded this conversation nearly a year ago now right at the beginning of my
1:18.1	journey when I was still trying to figure out the significance of this movement
1:22.3	known as Kewenon. I'd called Cheyenne that day because in the dark recesses of the online
1:30.0	cuneverse there was something going on. Turning now to Egypt, where several tugboats had to help a large container ship after it got stuck in the
1:39.4	Suez Canal.
1:40.7	This ship, blocking the Suez Canal, it's the biggest news story around the world.
1:45.0	There's about three billion dollars worth of goods that normally would traverse this canal every single day.
1:51.0	Some maybe more than 150 ships right now that are basically kind of in a holding pattern on either side of the canal
1:59.0	But global trade routes aren't what's worrying the conspiracy theorists that Cheyenne spends his time monitoring.
2:06.0	The ship operated by a Taiwanese company, Evergreen.
2:09.0	The Evergreen is about through the town.
2:11.0	Evergreen. This word is emblazoned in massive letters on the side of the ship.
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