The Far-Right Microtargeting Platform Radicalizing Churches + QAnon Yoga Moms

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Brad speaks to filmmaker Kat Gellein Viken who is the co-creator of two recent documentaries on churches, conspiracy, and the war on democracy. In 2020's People You May Know, Gellein and her co-creator Charles Kriel connect the dots among the Council for National policy, American oligarchs, and nefarious data mining firms. The film follows a trail that eventually reveals how churches are collecting their parishioners' most sensitive data and how that data is being sent to political operatives in order to use it as a weapon to wage war on democracy. In 2022's Dis/informed the duo pull back the curtain on the 12 sources of disinformation that account for over 60% of the pandemics spread of disinformation. This time, the trail leads to online wellness spaces full of yoga moms into alternative medicine and natural remedies. The filmmakers reveal how yoga moms became allied with conspiracy theorists and far-right agitators as part of the anti-vax and QAnon movements. People You May Know: https://www.amazon.com/People-You-Know-Charles-Kriel/dp/B08LHH7QJZ Dis/informed (coming soon from PBS America): https://metrotonemedia.com/ Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Produced by Brad Onishi Edited by Shannon Sassone Music by Matt Puckett - "846" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.2	Do people in churches know their personal information is being gathered to use in political campaigns?
1:23.1	No. The meetings are secret. The membership is secret.
1:27.5	Kelly and Conway is a member. Steve Bannon is a member.
1:36.4	They hope to use Trump as God's wrecking ball.
1:41.6	I had used to work with predictive analytics and big data tools. What would it look like to use it
1:48.0	within the realm of ministry? There's no better product than the gospel.
1:53.9	I've written an article that you said you'd worked with the original data guys,
1:57.6	Cambridge Analytica. We worked with, um, been heading to the station. I've got this hard drive on me
2:06.1	and I'm just terrified. The ultimate position to be in is when your adversary has no idea that
2:13.5	they're in the world. I bring greetings from President Donald Trump. The American government
2:20.7	is slated for destruction. We own the relationship space. Like, we own it. That's the church.
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