QAnon conspiracy blew up because of a bigger internet problem

Six years or a lifetime ago, outgoing Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart began mocking Fox News with the nickname “bullshit mountain.” It was an appropriate epithet at the time — and given the channel’s embrace of a baseless conspiracy theory last year about the death of Democratic staffer Seth Rich, the mountain has grown into a veritable Everest of bullshit since Stewart left the scene. 

But compared to the conspiracies that have grown tall in the fertile soil of the internet, Fox News is a bullshit molehill. The largest of today’s bovine towers burst out of dank 4Chan chat rooms and into the sunlight of the mainstream this week, via its appearance on shirts and signs at a Trump rally in Tampa: the QAnon conspiracy theory. Read more…

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