Do Your Own Research, You Know, This Is What You Can Find the Real Truth

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It's easy to think that we are just simply ignoring or making unimportant any conspiracy through o through time. What'sintersting to me about the cumanon phenomenon is that it is based on quot research, that one in the community is theoretically saying, do your own research. But kuan on followers in actise what they call research is really just high powered confirmation bias. They'll try and find words like petsa or hotdog that they think is a code word for children, or something nefarious. Now is totally nonsense, but they sort of convince themselves by reading through these e males,. By understanding what they believe are codes, they can sort of understand what's really going

What would inspire someone to singlehandedly initiate an armed standoff on the Hoover Dam, or lead the police on a 100-mile-an-hour car chase while calling for help from an anonymous internet source, or travel hundreds of miles alone to shoot up a pizza parlor? The people who did these things were all connected to the decentralized cult-like internet conspiracy theory group called QAnon. Our guest this episode, Travis View, is a researcher, writer and podcast host who has spent the last few years trying to understand the people who’ve become wrapped up in QAnon and the concerning consequences as Q followers increasingly leave their screens and take extreme actions in the real world. As many as six candidates who support QAnon are running for Congress and will be on the ballot for the 2020 elections, threatening to upend long-held Republican establishment seats. This just happened to a five-term Republican congressman in Colorado. Travis warns that QAnon is an extremism problem, not a disinformation or political problem, and dismissing QAnon as a fringe threat underestimates how quickly their views can leapfrog into mainstream debates on the left and the right.