This story presents the central issue as an aberration. If you consider that perhaps was always the goal of weaponized disinformation campaigns like QAnon -- stochastic terrorism, which it is -- his behavior should make more sense. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
There is still a lot of denial about what QAnon actually has been and a lot of searching for the "smoking gun" of who was behind it. That's a waste of time. What's so useful about QAnon to disinfo purveyors is that it's essentially an open source process. You can see exactly what
motivates people into stochastic terrorism -- because they're writing it themselves. They're A/B testing their own way into hideous acts.
I just re-read this and let me backtrack for a moment to say yes, it's important to find out who started this shit-show of course, but for debunking purposes the "who" is far less important than their effects
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