LONG READS Issue 854 · March 23, 2021

Who Would Believe That? 

Agrowing number of people subscribe to conspiracy theories — and it doesn’t really matter how outrageous the specifics are

Who Would Believe That? 

 

Some people believe 5G networks cause cancer, others are convinced the networks have been used over the past year by global elites to spread coronavirus, and there’s also a theory that China is using 5G towers to transmit wireless communication for spying on the United States. All these horrible scenarios left Warner hopeless and unhinged, especially since he had also been reading online accounts of shape-shifting reptiles taking on a human form to gain control over society.

Jitarth Jadeja was a regular visitor to the conspiracy theory media outlet “Infowars,” run by the infamous falsifier, Alex Jones. But one day in December 2017, when he tuned in to the website, there were two guests speaking about a whole new set of ideas.

The cryptic phrase, “The calm before the storm,” was repeated over and over. Jadeja listened, fascinated, as the speakers re-shaped his perception of the country in which he lived. Presidential candidate Donald Trump was going to save the country. Hillary Clinton, who was already teetering on the brink of criminal charges over her private email account and vilified for her unholy international alliances as secretary of state, was enmeshed in an international cabal of child abusers and human traffickers.

The more information Jadeja absorbed, the more firmly he was hooked. For the next year and a half, he followed the movement closely, spending hours each day devouring as much Q-related content as he could find, each new “Q drop” energizing him.

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