Abstract
We live in an era where paranoid political fantasies are not just commonplace but consequential. In the US, Donald Trump swept into the Oval Office on a wave of outlandish narratives – demonising Hillary “lock her up” Clinton and Barack “born in Kenya” Obama. The latest iteration, spilling out unmasked onto British and American streets, is a conspiracy theory called QAnon which alleges that a cabal of Satanic paedophiles is using a bogus virus to enslave the planet. According to believers, among them several Congressional candidates for the November elections, Trump himself is secretly working to thwart this dastardly plot.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages | 18-20 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| No. | 215 |
| Specialist publication | Cold Type |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Nov 2020 |
Keywords
- Media Freedom
- propaganda
- Internet technology
- Fake news