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QAnon Anonymous
QAnon Anonymous (QAA) is an investigative journalism podcast that analyses and debunks the QAnon conspiracy theory. It is co-hosted by Travis View, Julian Feeld, Jake Rockatansky and Annie Kelly, and became an important source of coverage about the conspiracy theory as it grew in size between 2018 to 2021.

The podcast premiered in August 2018, around ten months after the first posts by the person claiming to be Q on the 4chan message board. NPR has called QAA "a podcast that tracks and debunks online conspiracy theories", and the podcast has widened to discuss related conspiracy theories and the history of conspiratorial thinking in other time periods.

According to USA Today, QAA describes the QAnon conspiracy theory as a "meta conspiracy theory that provides an underlying narrative for other baseless theories". Annie Kelly acts as the podcast's UK correspondent, and joined the podcast as the conspiracy theory spread from the United States to other countries, accelerated by the Coronavirus pandemic.

The podcast looks at the rise of the conspiracy theory and its relation to economic and political power relations from a left wing perspective. Julian Feeld has told Wired magazine that QAnon is "a colorful expression of a broader and more worrying global trend towards ‘information warfare’ in the service of those seeking to consolidate capital and power.”

Travis View has also written extensively for the Washington Post on the subject of QAnon. He lives in San Diego.

As of Feb. 22, 2021, the podcast has 12,644 subscribers on Patreon.com.