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How did the QAnon conspiracy go global?

For people outside the US, QAnon seemed like a uniquely American threat – until it wasn’t.

Romanian supporters of QAnon shout slogans against the government's measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections, like wearing a face mask, during a rally in Bucharest on Monday, August 10, 2020. QAnon is a US conspiracy theory popular among some Trump supporters (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP Photo)

For people outside the US, QAnon seemed like a uniquely American threat – until it wasn’t. The digital cult was born on the internet in 2017, but its adherents have taken offline action in several countries. So how does a baseless conspiracy theory that says Donald Trump is battling a cabal of child-trafficking elites find its way around the world?

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Aoife Gallagher, analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue; Rudy Bouma, journalist at Nieuwsuur

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Negin Owliaei produced this episode with Dina Kesbeh, Alexandra Locke, Ney Alvarez, Amy Walters, Priyanka Tilve, Josh Rushing, and Malika Bilal.

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Source: Al Jazeera

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