Time Travel, Brain Scans, and FBI Drop-Ins: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of a QAnon Commune

Kasey Mayer watched in the first months of 2020 as her older sister Kiley’s Instagram posts went from sunsets and brunches to QAnon and Trump. By the summer, Kiley was living with Q—or at least with a man who said he was Q. “I’m worried she’s in serious danger,” Kasey Mayer wrote me in an email. After I started writing about QAnon, I started to receive a lot of these messages about getting friends or relatives out of the movement. The emails were filled with anguish, and a desire to reconnect with the person they knew before QAnon grabbed hold… Read Full Article