These aren't people who are merely misinformed. These aren't people who fell for like a deep fake or a cheap fake or something.

They didn't just get bad information.

That's Travis View, a researcher and writer who monitors and investigates the decentralized cult-like

internet conspiracy theory group called Qenon. Travis hosts a podcast called Qenon Anonymous.

He has spent the last few years trying to understand the people who've become wrapped up in the QAnon world,

and the concerning consequences as Q followers increasingly leave their screens and take extreme actions in the real world.

Let's take an example of like Cynthia Ab-Sug.

This was a Colorado woman who was arrested after plotting with other Q-An followers

to kidnap her children, which he didn't have custody of, in an armed raid.

Or take the example of Jessica Primm, this was a Q&A follower who was arrested Manhattan

with a car full of knives after posting threatening messages about Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden.

Kianenon entered the National Consciousness in December 2016,

when a man from North Carolina traveled to a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C. and opened fire.

He was acting on a Q-Anon conspiracy theory called Pizza Gate and believed that the pizza

parlor was at the center of a pedophile ring involving D.C.'s elite. The outlandish theory was quickly

dismissed and the shooter caught. But since then Q-Anon has actually grown and

more and more people are taking dangerous actions based on its ideas.

Alpel Slimin.

This was a Q&A follower.

He live streamed himself, leading the police on a 100 mile an hour car chase

with his five children in the vehicle.

And like during that chase, he actually called out to both Trump and

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