James Corbett on Epstein and QAnon
James Corbett calls it the trick: share one real story to earn trust, then feed people fake ones. That's how many first encountered Jeffrey Epstein via QAnon. The strategy includes false claims like the idea that Hillary Clinton was secretly under arrest.
Transcript (en)
Epstein was obviously a massive story over the past few years. Where's your read on that whole situation? I find it a little strange that this guy was a ghost to the mainstream public. And then we basically all collectively figure out about this guy through a Netflix doc. It puts me in mind of the QAnon phenomenon and whatever that was, because surely some of the things that were being promoted under that QAnon label were true and real, you know, nuggets of conspiracy. And some people learned about Epstein and things like that through the QAnon phenomenon. which, OK, I guess that's a good thing. But of course, they also learned a lot of genuinely, completely fake information, like the first QAnon drops about, you know, don't worry, Hillary Clinton is secretly under arrest and she's going to be taken to prison any day now and all of that. With regards to just the idea of how this information can be can be used as a way of getting people into trusting, as in, again, like trusting a source. Oh, well, QAnon taught me about Epstein. Therefore, I can listen to QAnon on other things. And so I think there's some degree of that, that real information does get put out there, but it gets put out there in a way that like now you can trust this source. Right. And then suddenly this source becomes a very bad source on other topics. Interestingly enough, if you enjoyed this, be sure to hit that like button and follow to stay up to date with what's going on in the world and everything else memes and markets. Peace.
