Media Matters' Angelo Carusone talks to Atlanta's WSB-TV about the QAnon conspiracy theory
Carusone: QAnon followers like congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene “really do genuinely believe that there is a massive, global, child sex trafficking ring” being run by what they call the deep state
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Citation From August 3, 2020, coverage on WSB-TV Atlanta
JUSTIN GRAY (REPORTER): The Anti-Defamation League calls those statements anti-Semitic, and says [Marjorie Taylor Greene]'s referring to false, debunked conspiracy theories that claim Soros -- a Holocaust survivor who was only 14 at the end of World War II -- was a Nazi collaborator. It's the kind of fringe rumors that Angelo Carusone from Media Matters says QAnon supporters traffic in.
ANGELO CARUSONE (PRESIDENT, MEDIA MATTERS): Part of the antagonism toward Soros is borne out of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which believes he's a major funder of this operation. These people really do genuinely believe that there is a massive, global, child sex trafficking ring that is being run by these forces.