Why our loved ones believe political conspiracy theories — and ways to repair the damage

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  This is in conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Shemitah Basu.

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  Today, how conspiracy theories tear families apart.

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  Throughout history, conspiracy theories have always found an audience to appeal to,

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  riding along as a sort of sidecar to the truth.

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  But today, in the age of the Internet, the scope,

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  depth and reach of them is more insidious than ever before.

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  One of our most gripping and dangerous modern conspiracy theories comes from QAnon.

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  It centers on the false belief that.

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  A cabal of so called elites are.

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  Operating a global child sex trafficking ring and conspiring against former president Donald Trump.

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  For a while, reporter Jessalyn Cook had only experienced QAnon as an online phenomenon.

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  But in August of 2020, she attended a rally.

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  There were close to 1,000 people marching down Hollywood Boulevard waving these Pizzagate signs,

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  these QAnon flags.

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  They were chanting the QAnon slogan, Where we go one, we go all.

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  And it was just stunning to me

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  because it felt like all of this online darkness that I'd been reporting on had come to life.

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  Jesselyn remembers seeing a young boy holding his father's.

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  The little kid was wearing a shirt about adrenochrome,

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