Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny are NBC News reporters focusing on mis- and disinformation in health and politics. Here, they speak with
Lawfare’s Quinta Jurecic and Evelyn Douek about QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory built around anonymous internet posts heralding Donald Trump as the righteous leader of a struggle against a cabal of “deep state” elites running an extensive child sex trafficking operation. They discussed how social media platforms have allowed QAnon to spread and how its ability to plug into other conspiracy theories, permeate the mainstream, and incite offline violence have made it particularly pernicious.
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Commentary
Podcast: Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny explain QAnon
Ben Collins,
BC
Ben Collins
Reporter
- NBC News
Brandy Zadrozny,
BZ
Brandy Zadrozny
Reporter
- NBC News
Quinta Jurecic, and
Quinta Jurecic
Fellow
- Governance Studies,
Senior Editor
- Lawfare
@qjurecic
Evelyn Douek
ED
Evelyn Douek
S.J.D. Candidate
- Harvard Law School
@evelyndouek
August 7, 2020