Re: NYTimes.com: A QAnon ¡Digital Soldie r¢ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory¢s Un raveling

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:00:50 -0800 (PST)
 >
 > yes
 > 
 > On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, heather Howard wrote:
 >  > Fascinating and scary — is your e-mail working again?
 >  > 
 >  > From The New York Times:
 >  > 
 >  > A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s 
 >  > Unraveling
 >  > 
 >  > Valerie Gilbert posts dozens of times a day in support of an unhinged
 >  >  conspiracy theory. The story of this “meme queen” hints at how hard it
 >  >  will be to bring people like her back to reality.
 >  > 
 >  > https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/qanon-meme-queen.html?smid=em-share

 "Over a series of conversations, I learned that she had a longstanding
  suspicion of elites dating back to her Harvard days, when she felt out of
  place among people she considered snobby rich kids. As an adult, she
  joined the anti-establishment left, advocating animal rights and
  supporting the Standing Rock oil pipeline protests. She admired the
  hacktivist group Anonymous, and looked up to whistle-blowers like Julian
  Assange and Edward Snowden. She was a registered Democrat for most of her
  life, but she voted for Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, in the
  2016 presidential election after deciding that both major parties were
  corrupt.
  Ms. Gilbert’s path to QAnon began in 2016 when
  WikiLeaks posted a trove of hacked emails from the Clinton campaign.
  Shortly after, she started seeing posts on social media about something
  called #Pizzagate."

Why does it always come back to social media?  It seems like social media
has become "the new Fox News", like in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brainwashing_of_My_Dad .  Really
amazing.  I don't even think the CIA mind-control programs could've come
up with something so sweeping.