How QAnon is still destroying the internet

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

QAnon began as a niche conspiracy theory. How did it become a movement for self-radicalisation? How have its dangerous ideas infiltrated society? Rafael Behr is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Ball, author of The Other Pandemic How QAnon Contaminated the World, to explore how the dark corners of the internet have serious implications for mainstream politics. “Lots of QAnon conspiracies emerged from online trolling.” “4Chan created things the rest of the internet couldn’t say.” “QAnon asked people to self radicalise which caused a snowball effect.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Link for James Ball’s book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-other-pandemic-9781526642554/ Link for Rafael Behr’s book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/politics-a-survivors-guide/rafael-behr/9781838955045 Written and presented by Rafael Behr. Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio editor: Simon Williams. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.8	controlled by a vast secret network of murderous satanic child kidnappers?
1:19.7	It's the news really a vast movie reel, a fiction, an exercise incident is the mind control to hide the terrible truth.
1:27.0	No, obviously not.
1:29.0	Well, I say obviously.
1:31.0	It sounds pretty far-fetched to me, and I'm guessing to everyone listening to this
1:34.6	podcast. It's the stuff of deranged conspiracy theory and yet hundreds of thousands of people
1:40.0	worldwide follow QAnon, the conspiratorial cult that believes the US and other societies
1:45.8	have been captured by a global pedophile ring.
1:49.2	Many more adhere to at least some of the paranoid delusions, sub-theories that spiral out from the original conspiracy.
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