'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 7: 'Where We Go One'

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🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Note: This episode contains strong language. Today, we’re sharing Episode 7 of “Rabbit Hole,” a New York Times audio series with the tech columnist Kevin Roose. In this episode, our reporter investigates the QAnon conspiracy theories. The story of QAnon believers, united in a battle against what they see as dark forces of the world, reveals where the internet is headed. For more information on “Rabbit Hole” and today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/rabbithole.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, Unleakable Barrow.
0:09.0	Today, Rabbit Hole.
0:15.0	Episode 7.
0:18.0	Kevin?
0:19.0	Yes.
0:20.0	Allie's here.
0:21.0	Hi, Kevin.
0:22.0	Hey, Allie.
0:23.0	Thanks for participating in our goat rodeo here.
0:26.0	I love this subject.
0:28.0	So happy to do it.
0:31.0	Can you first introduce yourself and your beat these days?
0:36.0	So I'm Allie Warkins.
0:38.0	I work at the Metro Desk at the Times.
0:41.0	And my beat is largely the New York City Police Department.
0:44.0	But that encompasses a whole lot of things, whether it's crime, counterterror, or we had a big spiking gang violence this year in Brooklyn.
0:51.0	So we kind of hop around all of that.
0:53.0	And this story, the story you're here to talk about.
0:56.0	Where does it start for you?
0:57.0	So it starts late on the night of March 13th this past year when I started getting frantic phone calls from my editor around 1130 at night.
1:07.0	And I think when you're on the Metro beat and you're covering the police department, you get calls at that time of night and you think, you know, either a bridge is blown up or like a mob boss is dead.
1:18.0	And it turns out it was the second one.
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