Our guest next week is Brandy Zadrozny
Conspiracies! QAnon! Politics! Fake news! Ohhhhhhhh mannnnnn.
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VFD #7 will be published on Tuesday, March 16, AEST. Our guest is Brandy Zadrozny. Brandy is one of the internet’s bold and brightest when it comes to disinformation, politics, conspiracy, and digital culture. You can find some of her work here.
Brandy and I spoke for over an hour – after I initially told her it would only take 30 minutes. Guess that’s the nature of it. Sometimes the conversation takes you away.
This interview covers a big range of stuff, and I was conscious to not let it just become the Super QAnon Show because, let’s be honest, most everyone is probably exhausted by that whole mess by now.
In fact, probably the best part of our conversation was when I asked Brandy to explain what QAnon is (for you, dear reader) - it’s a question that she has obviously been asked one thousand times before and her answer showed it.
“QAnon is an umbrella of conspiracy theory that started on 4chan, and it posits that there is a secret cabal of demon-worshipping baby eaters and they are people who are mostly Democratic members of Congress or democratic politicians. The Hollywood elite, like Tom Hanks, is the favourite. They sort of play this game online that they decode clues from a supposed government insider who's leaking all these clues about the secret war to stop this cabal. Who's leading the call? Donald Trump, of course. Notorious humanitarian and lover of women and children. He's saving them all. And this moment when he will unveil what he has done to save all the children is called The Storm and that is when they all these people will be executed. And we will all have the awakening. And we will all live in bliss with the knowledge that all the children are now safe.”
Sorry about that, Brandy.
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