How do you rescue someone you love from the clutches of an internet conspiracy cult? Do you maybe tell them that the operator of the “most prominent” website devoted to the unhinged, fact-free QAnon conspiracy theory was recently rumbled as a senior vice-president at Citibank? Alas, the truth has done little to dissuade QAnon believers from the fictions of their conspiracy mythology. The gunman found no Clinton, no children and no basement – and yet the themes of the conspiracy endure, and internationally. QAnon believers are not always the enemy.

Source: The Guardian September 27, 2020 17:32 UTC