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The Other Pandemic review: Can smart reframing fight conspiracies?

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James Ball’s clever take on conspiracy theories is to see them as public health emergencies. But will it really help us fight the likes of QAnon?

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 …

 

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