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Podcast: The Lede
Episode: Listen Again: The Age of Conspiracy Theories — with Gabriel Gatehouse and Faisal Al Yafai
Description: Known best by his alias “the QAnon Shaman,” the shirtless man depicted in photos with a horned fur hat and an American flag painted on his face became one of the most iconic images from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.Capitol. His real name is Jake Angeli, and he believed in the conspiracy theory known as QAnon — that the U.S. government was controlled by a global child-trafficking Satanist cabal and that Donald Trump was fighting a secret war to defeat them.
Gabriel Gatehouse, an award-winning foreign correspondent with the BBC, recognized the man in the pho...