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February 4, 2021 10:02 pm GMT

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene blames Facebook for her QAnon beliefs

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene blames Facebook for her QAnon beliefs

QAnon’s favorite Congresswoman just gave a little insight into how she came to believe far right conspiracy theories.

"I started looking up things on the internet, asking questions like most people do every day, use Google,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in a speech on the House floor on Thursday. "And I stumbled across something, and this is something at the end of 2017, called QAnon."

"If it weren’t for the Facebook posts and comments that I liked in 2018, I wouldn’t be standing here today and you couldn’t point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong," she continued.

Facebook has played a major role in the spread of online conspiracy theories and misinformation. QAnon, a right-wing conspiracy theory that claims former President Trump was waging a secret battle with a global Satanic baby-eating child-trafficking ring made up of members of the Democratic Party and Hollywood elites, once a large presence on Facebook. Read more...

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