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S1: The Louis Theroux Interview

The Coming Storm

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QAnon, Anonymous, 4chan and 8chan - What's the Connection?

QAnon was a crowd sourced conspiracy theory, but also there was a point to it. And so I think that was a big source of its power and its strength. 4chan was this image board, basically a message board, a kind of proto-Facebook before Facebook. It was this place where the anonymous hacker collector, as you said, came out with their hacking attacks on first Scientology, then also like some of the big institutions of the global economy. But they were very quickly squished by the FBI. The FBI swung into action pretty fast when they started creating real economic harm. They both emanated from... So I mean there's so many ways we can unpick the strands

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