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A protester holds a QAnon sign during a 2020 demonstration against Washington state’s stay-home order.Elaine Thompson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s been a great week for the summer’s surprise box office hit, Sound …
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JTA — While “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have hogged the Hollywood headlines, a more unlikely blockbuster swept the box office this month: “Sound of Freedom,” a thriller lauded by QAnon conspiracy theorists and high-profile Republicans. It also draws from a conspiratorial well that includes a number …
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Leave it to gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson to drop an obscure theory about oxidized adrenaline’s alleged psychedelic properties that, 52 years later, is being connected by QAnon conspiracists to a blockbuster movie about child sex trafficking. Deep breath.Thompson, who died in 2005 and …
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In a podcast interview, O’Day calls the former president’s son, with whom she claims she had an affair, “an intellect” in one breath and says he’s allegedly done “racist shit” in another.By Kase WickmanJuly 21, 2023From Santiago Felipe/Getty Images.Save this storySaveSave this storySaveIn the …
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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailAfter watching “Sound of Freedom,” the movie associated with QAnon, former president Donald Trump said that he would require the death penalty for “anyone …
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Hosting a screening at his private club, the former president is the most prominent Republican to embrace a film lauded by both mainstream conservatives and far-right QAnon believers.Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina called it an “amazing, gut-wrenching, emotional movie.”“Wow. Wow. Wow,” Senator …
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AILSA CHANG, HOST:The film “Sound Of Freedom” is this summer’s surprise box office hit, raking in more than $85 million in ticket sales. As NPR’s Shannon Bond reports, the movie is being criticized as a vehicle for conspiracy theories.SHANNON BOND, BYLINE: “Sound Of Freedom” is a thriller about a …
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Sound of Freedom, the movie about a heroic American saving children from traffickers in Colombia, is a surprise box-office hit of the summer. But it’s also getting attention because the man at the center of the film and the actor who plays him embrace QAnon conspiracy theories.What is Sound of …
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It was an outdoor movie with a difference. Sitting in the front row: Donald Trump, the former US president. Also in attendance: extremists and election deniers. On the big screen: a box office hit promoted by followers of QAnon.Trump, who is running for president again, hosted a private screening …
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But what do you do about a cult that spans the globe and yet has no obvious leader? This is the question facing the world today with the QAnon movement – a conspiracy theory that began in 2017 with the core idea that then-president Donald Trump was battling a global Satanic paedophile ring, headed …
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