while i set up a page, i want to just engage in some conversation. a few days later, someone connected with us. he remains committed to q and would chat on camera if we conceal his identity? how are you? i m good. how are thanks for talking to us. he calls himself d.c. and tells me, he, too, was banned from facebook but only after a group he created grew to over 90,000 followers. the name of the group was qanon great awakening. the main purpose of that facebook page was to, quote-unquote make normies of q. when q posted we would amplify the post on facebook. what role does donald trump play in your world view? he showed us what a real president can do. it s that simple. he was unbought. we all know that if it wasn t for covid trump would have probably had the best economy in
i want to engage in some conversation. a few days later someone connected with us. he remains committed to q and agrees to chat on camera if we conseal his identity. how are you? i m good. how are you? i m doing well. thanks for talking to us. he calls himself d.c. and tells me, he, too, was banned from facebook but only after a group he created grew to over 90,000 followers. the name of the group was qanon great awakening. the main purpose of that facebook page was to, quote-unquote make normies of q. when q posted we would amplify the post on facebook. what role does donald trump play in your world view? he showed us what a real president can do. it s that simple. he was unbought. we all know that if it wasn t for covid trump would have probably had the best economy in history in his term. and i believe 100% the goal of
amazing. we watched this ceremony, alex managed to film with a camera in his bag. let all witnesses be refer rent before him. reporter: the footage was shaky and dark and captured what was clear lay hit warm. they peck up the human effigy, throw it into the fire. bring fire. then this big firing display. reporter: it turned out what they witnessed was a bohemian club s annual sucker kickoff call the cremation of care. creepy looking, yes, but more of a summer play put on by rich men. it was a weird event, probably not particularly nefarious? it was art, but not ne far yuchlts but alex brought out a video, like he was witnessed an
platforms, we can listen to the people who have fallen down the rabbit hole and learn from their experience. when i really started to understand as i had come out of qanon what it really was and how deep that hatred and racism was sowed, i was absolutely horrified that i was involved in it in any way. i am deeply sorry, and i will spend the rest of my life trying to make it right. we are starting to see what it looks like when our sense of reality is incredibly fractured and divided. so what s the end result if we continue along on this path? where do we go from here? what happens? if we can t come to a shared sense of what we want this country to look like or even the basic facts of what we re fighting about, we very lit rate can t get anywhere. we are just mired in an even more heightened of the partisan divides we ve been dealing with for the last 50 years.
the clues were all there, actually, that it had the potential to get as huge as it s become. john ronson is no stranger to bizarre stories. an author and film-maker, he s covered secret military programs, psychopaths and brain control. extremism led him to the world of extremist thinking. i thought they would have things in common. they all believed there was a shadowy cabal in the world. it s a very clear hoax that, of course, flunlsed the nazis nuanced white supremacists today. john wanted to learn more how these things were spreading in fringe groups on the right and discovered a fan base determined to expose the threat of a new