The potency of QAnon, relative to other conspiracy theories, lies in its crowd-sourced character, lightning fast diffusion, and mainstreaming in the Republican party.
Jaclyn Fox
Jaclyn Fox is a PhD candidate at American University, School of International Service, specializing in political violence and security. Her work explores the changing shape of the Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more movement in the U.S. and across the globe. Specifically, she investigates the links between online rhetoric and offline violence across the far-right ecosystem. Fox is also a doctoral fellow with the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right where she blogs about such topics as far-right violence, disinformation, psychology, gender, and anti-government ideology.
