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Playing with fire — did QAnon start as a cynical game?

The QAnon conspiracy theory may be absurd, but it can’t be ignored. It has already led to significant acts of violence, says Damian Thompson

24 July 2021

9:00 AM

24 July 2021

9:00 AM

The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult and Conspiracy Theory of Everything Mike Rothschild

Monoray, pp.288, 14.99

Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko

Stanford University Press, pp.256, 14.99

On Easter Monday 2018, Donald and Melania Trump stood on the balcony of the White House next to a giant bunny. It’s part of the job: since 1878, presidents have hosted a children’s Easter egg hunt on the south lawn. Usually they rhapsodise abut what fun the kids are going to have.

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