between qanon and this russian narrative, but i said there was a large truth at the bottom of the russia story, whereas this is just complete fantasy. bud russia story, whereas this is ust complete fantasy.i russia story, whereas this is ust complete fantasy. and he said, have ou ever complete fantasy. and he said, have you ever heard complete fantasy. and he said, have you ever heard of complete fantasy. and he said, have you ever heard of jeffrey complete fantasy. and he said, have you ever heard of jeffrey epstein? i you ever heard ofjeffrey epstein? so the thing that i kind of came to believe about qanon is that, yes, if you took it literally to mean that hillary clinton was literally running a cabal of satanic paedophiles out of a pizza restaurant out of washington, dc they didn t have a basement, then of course it is nonsense. but if you took qanon as a kind of parable, which is that people feel that there are unelected people who were kind of controlling their lives in a
years of silence, 0 posted again. gabriel gatehouse is international editor at bbc news and the presenter of the radio four documentary series the coming storm that looks at the rise of qanon. and dr irene pasquetto is assistant professor at the university of michigan school of information. irene, gabriel, welcome to the media show. hi, katie. hello. thank you. most welcome. gabriel, when we say 0 is back, how do we know this? what s happened 7 ok, so, 0 was this supposed figure who was supposed to be a government insider with high level security clearance who was revealing secrets about this cabal of satanic paedophiles that had supposedly captured the levers of government in the united states. and 0, this government insider,
what s your big story in bristol today? so, today i ve been visiting bristol s newly repainted rainbow crossing, just painted in time for our city s pride celebrations. so we ve got a brand new rainbow crossing on wine street. sounds fantastic. charlotte, what have you been covering in tameside? so, in tameside, we ve just got a new council leader. after the last one was deposed following the local elections. and so i have been speaking to them about what their plans are for the borough and what they are going to do difficult or differently. so that is the full spectrum of localjournalism right there. thank you. and we will hear more from both of you and others in a bit. but we are going to start with an extraordinary story from the other side of the atlantic. qanon is the conspiracy theory that says donald trump has been waging war on a cabal of satanic paedophiles who stole the 2020 us election. completely unfounded theories but believed by significant numbers. qanon supporters were
theory about the cabal of satanic paedophiles merged with the conspiracy theory about how the election was stolen, and in a sense that conspiracy theory which involves these weird voting machines or dominion voting machines that were. that conspiracy theory was also promoted by this same ron watkins guy he was one of the administrators who we think may have been controlling qanon. so they stick to things merged and what has happened now is that the idea that america is controlled by a malevolent force, a deep state that has subverted its democracy, is now mainstream political opinion. there is a massive battle going on inside the republican party between those who believe this big lie, those who are promoting the big lie and those who really don t, but it has become
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