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A mob stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Among the crowd, many believed a cabal of satanic pedophile had stolen the election. It's only a matter of time. Justice is coming. And that a coming storm... would free the Republic from their grip. A strange fantasy had infected the bloodstream of America. Millions believed this narrative. How did that happen? That...
what I set out to discover. It's been a wild ride. From the conspiracy-soaked barrooms of Arkansas in the 1990s... It was a place where anything could be said to have happened. to the Byzantine chat rooms of the early internet. There was this entire dimension out there. And dark websites where kids in basements sat around cooking up a powerful and toxic meme brew.
out of the detritus of American culture. If I had never been in the picture, I don't know that everything that would have happened afterwards would have happened. I started by trying to understand this vast and sprawling conspiracy theory known as QAnon. It was a puzzle. It was a series of questions, and if you were able to find the answer to them, it kind of compiled a story. But my quest turned into something else. I punched tweet, and I laid my phone down.
Listen, Gabriel, I had no idea the power of Twitter. I didn't know really what I was doing. I just had to answer. Something bigger. I went into a bar nearby where I was. Where were you? I was in Moscow. Wow. Yes. That's an interesting twist I hadn't expected. In the shadow of the Kremlin, a dark secret began to unravel. I mean, how do you get near enough to see somebody urinating on a bed?
What was I looking for, really? I began to suspect there was a plot. He or she who drives the narrative drives the outcome. Had I... Fallen down the rabbit hole myself. We call that the wall of crazy. I feel like I'm almost there, you know. You're getting there. It is just remarkable to me where we've ended. And we haven't ended, have we? It begins with a dead body in a park.
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