QAnon: the rise and roots of a baseless conspiracy theory

Donald Trump has referred to QAnon followers as ‘people who love our country’ – while to the FBI they are considered a potential domestic terror threat. The Guardian US technology reporter Julia Carrie Wong explains the roots – and rise – of QAnon, the unfounded conspiracy theory that emerged in the US in 2017, and is now spreading across the world

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The QAnon orphans: people who have lost loved ones to conspiracy theories ► https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/23/qanon-conspiracy-theories-loved-ones

‘Quite frankly terrifying’: How the QAnon conspiracy theory is taking root in the UK ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/20/the-qanon-conspiracy

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