S1: 4. Q Drops
The battle for reality. Gabriel Gatehouse investigates.
QAnon and the plot to break reality...
In Oct 2017 Donald Trump says something weird in a room full of military figures: “Maybe this is the calm before the storm.”
A few weeks later a poster on 4chan who calls himself Q starts to tell a crazy story about a coming storm, in which Trump is engaged in an epic battle against a cabal of satanic paedophiles who have hijacked the American Republic.
A group of bloggers mainstream the theory and it starts having a life of its own with real world consequences. Qanon is born. But who is directing it?
Producer: Lucy Proctor
Presenter: Gabriel Gatehouse
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- Tue 25 Jan 202211:00BBC Radio 4
- Mon 31 Jan 202221:00BBC Radio 4
- Sun 2 Oct 202213:30BBC Radio 4
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