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Anya Van Wagtendonk, who covers misinformation for Grid, said that at its heart, QAnon is “an umbrella conspiracy theory” built on the idea that “an elite cabal of sex traffickers and Satan worshippers is in control of the world, and needs to be taken down by force.”
To many people, it sounds outlandish. But as Anya noted, what began as a set of “cryptic missives” (the so-called Q drops) on various fringe online forums has evolved into something with far greater reach and impact. In the span of roughly five years, QAnon and its conspiracy theory-driven narratives have evolved from a set of beliefs with a minuscule following to something of a movement. And as Grid has reported, QAnon has put down roots in multiple corners of politics and the media; it’s not even clear that QAnon should still be considered “fringe.”
Anya also looked at how QAnon has been driven offline, what its offline presence looks like and how its political power is growing. “The great culmination of a lot of this ideology was the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol,” she said. “Because if you believe that the only way to end this satanist conspiracy is the reelection of Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is not reelected and you believe that the election was stolen from him by those same satanists, perhaps you are going to take dire action.”
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