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The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world's first digital pandemic.

Praise for The Other Pandemic:

In his new book about the QAnon movement, the investigative journalist James Ball teases out the global network of people who have essentially given up on the notion of objective reality, from bored teenage trolls to duplicitous politicians and crazed billionaires . Ball takes to his task with a convert's zealotry -- Ethan Croft ― The Times

An insightful book about the conspiracy movement compares it persuasively to a self-replicating disease . A disturbing study of the origins and resilience of an exceptionally versatile and pernicious network of paranoid digital malcontents -- Rafael Behr ― Guardian

This is a worthwhile, pacy and well-written book. It is an…