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Feb 2021
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How did the QAnon conspiracy go global?

Al Jazeera
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For people outside the US, QAnon seemed like a uniquely American threat — up until it wasn’t. The digital cult was born on the corners of the internet in 2017, but its adherents have taken offline action in several countries. So how does a baseless conspiracy theory that says Donald Trump is battling a cabal of child-trafficking elites find its way around the world?

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Aoife Gallagher (@aoifegall), analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue; Rudy Bouma (@rudybouma), journalist at Nieuwsuur

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