The Other Pandemic: How QAnon contaminated the world
James Ball (Bloomsbury)
Nearly six years ago, a global conspiracy movement was born in real time. A post on the website 4chan’s /pol/ board ignited a series of conspiracies, which, when layered on top of each other, can be plausibly linked to everything from the attack on the US Capitol building on 6 January 2021 to the ongoing protests against so-called 15-minute cities in the UK.
That conspiracy movement is QAnon. It is an outlandish and nonsensical conspiracy theory, alleging that there is a global cabal of Satan-worshipping paedophiles who are …
