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Podcast: Skeptics in the Pub Online Podcast
Episode: How the sex trafficking panic leads to Qanon conspiracy theorists - Brooke Magnanti
Description: As the US Presidential election draws near, the world has become fascinated with the seemingly new phenomena of Qanon and other wide-ranging conspiracy theories taking over social media and mainstream politics. However, the genesis of these groups is years old and comes from a surprising place: the global anti-sex trafficking movement. Brooke Magnanti discusses what happens when well-meaning causes are sidelined by bad stats and bad faith actors seize the opportunity in the service of a more worrying trend.
Brooke Magnanti is a scientist and author. She is writer of the bestselling Belle de Jour series of...