The pivotal and petty battle for QAnon’s future
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
An update on what the Jan. 6 commission has learned so far. And how the pro-Trump Internet descended into infighting in the year since the attempted insurrection.
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Reporter Jacqueline Alemany has been following the Jan. 6 commission for the past six months. As we come up on the first anniversary of the attack on the Capitol, Alemany reports on what the commission has uncovered so far and what she’s watching out for next.
Plus: The far-right firebrands and conspiracy theorists of the pro-Trump Internet have a new enemy: each other. Without a figurehead, far-right influencers are fighting for money and followers. Reporter Drew Harwell explains the reality-television-style drama, and what it means for the future of online extremism.
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| 0:00.0 | January 6, 2021 was a moment that will forever live in our history books, but history didn't |
| 0:08.4 | stop there. |
| 0:10.0 | As we come up on the one year anniversary of that day, I've been thinking a lot about |
| 0:14.4 | all of the people who are fighting for their narrative to be the narrative. |
| 0:19.8 | In many ways, the House Democrats investigating January 6 may seem very different from |
| 0:25.0 | QAnon conspiracy theorists in the dark corners of the internet. |
| 0:29.0 | But one of the things I've been thinking about is what all the players in this drama |
| 0:32.0 | have in common. |
| 0:33.4 | They all feel like they're fighting the good fight. |
| 0:37.9 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm Clevv Vutzen. |
| 0:42.9 | It's Wednesday, January 5. |
| 0:46.0 | Today, with the January 6th Commission is learned so far and whether any of it will matter |
| 0:51.4 | in the end and the fight for the future of the pro-Trump internet. |
| 1:00.0 | First we start with the January 6th Commission, two Republicans and seven Democratic lawmakers |
| 1:05.3 | who've been charged with investigating what happened that day. |
| 1:08.6 | And how to avoid it happening again. |
| 1:12.6 | Clevv, we are six months in. |
| 1:14.6 | This was a committee that started in July, much to the chagrin of Republicans who tried |
| 1:19.6 | all sorts of things in order to abort the creation of an investigative body to look into the |
| 1:26.4 | reasons behind the January 6th insurrection. |
| 1:36.6 | We are nearing the committee pivoting to a public phase of their investigation. |
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