HBO’s QAnon documentary is a megaphone for extremists — and it’s unbelievably boring

HBO QAnon has become a nearly inescapable part of politics. The conspiracy is organized around an anonymous figure called Q, who was supposedly operating inside the Trump administration. Using anonymous online message boards, Q has sent a string of cryptic messages about a plan to mass-arrest Democratic politicians and celebrities, who are supposedly kidnapping and murdering huge numbers of children. (They are not.) Q has now spent three years promising imminent arrests, while the QAnon group has become a kind of super-conspiracy theory attracting people from across the world, built around cheering for mass executions and martial law. On paper, then, unmasking the person (or people) behind Q sounds like a big deal. And that’s the goal of Q:... Continue reading…