Thursday, November 12, 2020
She fell into QAnon and went viral for destroying a Target mask display. Now she’s rebuilding her life. - The Washington Post
...She found those answers in QAnon, which she discovered through some of the natural wellness and spirituality spaces she inhabited online. She spent her nights, then her days, scrolling through them as her mind wandered further away from reality.
"It basically purports to have all the answers to the questions you have. The answers are horrifying and will scare you more than reality, but at least you feel oddly comforted, like, 'At least now I have the answer,' " she said, adding, "They tell you the institutions you're supposed to trust are lying to you. Anybody who tells you that QAnon is [wrong] is a bad guy, including your friends and family. It happens gradually, and you don't realize you're getting more and more deep in it."...
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