QAnon is a conspiracy theory born in the underbelly of the internet. While easy to disprove, these cryptic ideas captured the minds of many people and (in part) paved the way to the 2021 storming of the US Capital.
This is a contemporary conspiracy which came into existence and grew in a very digital way. This makes it possible for researchers to study this phenomenon in a way not accessible in previous conspiracy theories of similar popularity.
This episode is not so much a debunking of this debunked theory, but rather an exploration of the metadata and origins of this conspiracy.
This episode is also the first in our 2021 Pilot Season in which we are going to test out a few formats for Data Skeptic to see what our next season should be. This is the first installment. In a few weeks, we're going to ask everyone to vote for their favorite theme for our next season.
Fault Tolerant Distributed Gradient Descent
Decentralized Information Gathering
Leaderless Consensus
Automatic Summarization
Gerrymandering
Even Cooperative Chess is Hard
Consecutive Votes in Paxos
Visual Illusions Deceiving Neural Networks
Earthquake Detection with Crowd-sourced Data
Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus
Alpha Fold
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
Face Mask Sentiment Analysis
Counting Briberies in Elections
Sybil Attacks on Federated Learning
Differential Privacy at the US Census
Distributed Consensus
ACID Compliance
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
Defending the p-value
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