The Different Pandemic: How QAnon contaminated the world
James Ball (Bloomsbury)
Almost six years in the past, a world conspiracy motion was born in actual time. A submit on the web site 4chan’s /pol/ board ignited a collection of conspiracies, which, when layered on high of one another, will be plausibly linked to all the pieces from the assault on the US Capitol constructing on 6 January 2021 to the continuing protests towards so-called 15-minute cities within the UK.
That conspiracy motion is QAnon. It’s an outlandish and nonsensical conspiracy principle, alleging that there’s a world cabal of Devil-worshipping paedophiles who’re …