How QAnon Continues to Influence National and Local Politics

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🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

QAnon, the far right conspiracy movement, hasn’t dominated the headlines lately, but is still an active force in politics. Even locally, members of a QAnon group harassed Los Gatos town council members and shut down a meeting last year. We talk with the creators and hosts of ViceTV’s documentary series “QAnon: The Search for Q.” Now in its second season, the series looks into how the viral movement continues leading people down a path of misinformation, anti-democratic ideologies and violence. We’ll talk about the evolution of the QAnon movement and the danger posed by its followers. Guests: Bayan Joonam, film producer, creator and host, "QAnon: The Search for Q" for ViceTV Marley Clements, documentary filmmaker, host and creator of "QAnon: The Search For Q" for ViceTV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.8	You ever wonder what happened to QAnon, the baseless and completely bizarre, conspiracist
0:55.6	movement that posited Donald Trump was fighting a secret war against a shadowy evil cabal
1:00.1	engaged in child sex trafficking?
1:02.8	Well, Q stopped posting in December 2020, then after January 6th, the number of public Q&ONN
1:07.9	adherents seemed to decline.
1:09.8	But millions of people had been caught up in this
1:11.9	thing. And surely they didn't just disappear, right? And no, they did not. This morning, we follow up on
1:18.5	what happened to Q&ON with the creators of a Vice documentary series on the phenomenon. But we're
1:23.7	going to start with the Los Gatos City Council. To find out why, stay tuned for Forum after this news.
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