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Former QAnon Followers Explain What Drew Them In — And Got Them Out

Like those leaving cults, some people who believe in conspiracy theories like QAnon and Pizzagate can break free from their beliefs

By EJ Dickson September 23, 2020 9:00AM ET

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ex-qanon-followers-cult-conspiracy-theory-pizzagate-1064076/

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He went down the QAnon rabbit hole for almost two years. Here's how he got out

Story by Bronte Lord and Richa Naik, CNN Business

Video by Richa Naik and Sofia Barrett, CNN Business

Updated 2027 GMT (0427 HKT) October 18, 2020

One day in June 2019, Jitarth Jadeja went outside to smoke a cigarette. For two years he'd been in the virtual cult of QAnon. But now he'd watched a YouTube video that picked apart the last element of the theory he believed in. Standing there smoking, he would say later, he felt "shattered." He had gone down the QAnon rabbit hole; now, having emerged from it, he had no idea what to do next.

'QAnon only hurts people. It has helped nobody.'

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/16/tech/qanon-believer-how-he-got-out/index.html

"They're unrecognizable': One woman reflects on losing her parents to QAnon"

Good luck to the woman here named Lily.

"Her parents have reasoned away why Q's predictions didn't come true. "They blame themselves for not understanding
what Q meant," she said. "For not being smart enough to be able to know what really is going to happen."

Now Lily, like others who have lost loved ones to QAnon, is left wondering how to move forward."

And to her parents.