She admired the hacktivist group Anonymous, and looked up to whistle-blowers like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
As an adult, she joined the anti-establishment left, advocating animal rights and supporting the Standing Rock oil pipeline protests.
Over a series of conversations, I learned that she had a longstanding suspicion of elites dating back to her Harvard days, when she felt out of place among people she considered snobby rich kids. She disdains the mainstream media, but she agreed to be profiled, and we kept in touch. Gilbert - a self-described mystic who has written four books, with titles like “Swami Soup” - mostly struck me as a New Age eccentric who could use some time away from screens. There are law-abiding keyboard warriors as well as violent, unhinged radicals.ĭespite these delusions, Ms. Others are newer converts who have only a vague idea how it all connects. Some “anons” are veteran conspiracists who have spent years exploring the theory’s many tributaries. Like any movement its size - which is almost certainly in the millions, though it is impossible to quantify - QAnon contains a wide range of beliefs and tactics. Trump will not actually leave office on Wednesday, but will instead declare martial law, declassify damning information about the “deep state” and arrest thousands of cabal members, including President-elect Joseph R.
Gilbert hoping for a last-minute miracle. These setbacks have left QAnon believers like Ms. They are being barred by the thousands from major social networks for spreading misinformation about voter fraud, and law enforcement agencies are treating the movement as a domestic extremist threat. Many prominent QAnon followers have been arrested for their roles in this month’s deadly mob riot at the U.S. Trump is leaving office on Wednesday under the cloud of a second impeachment. Trump would be re-elected in a landslide, and that a coming “storm” would expose the global pedophile ring and bring its leaders to justice.īut there have been no mass arrests, and Mr. These are confusing times for followers of QAnon, a deranged conspiracy theory birthed in the bowels of the internet. Trump accidentally tweeted three years ago, was a coded intelligence message. On a recent day, her feed included a rant against Covid-19 lockdowns, a grainy meme accusing Congress of “high treason,” a post calling Lady Gaga a Satanist and a claim that “covfefe,” a typo that Mr.
She unspools this web of falsehoods on her Facebook page, where she posts dozens of times a day, often sharing links from right-wing sites like Breitbart and The Epoch Times or QAnon memes she has pulled off Twitter. Like all QAnon faithful, she is convinced that the world is run by a Satanic group of pedophiles that includes top Democrats and Hollywood elites, and that President Trump has spent years leading a top-secret mission to bring these evildoers to justice. Gilbert, 57, is a believer in QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory. Then, she opens her laptop and begins fighting the global cabal. Every morning, Valerie Gilbert, a Harvard-educated writer and actress, wakes up in her Upper East Side apartment feeds her dog, Milo, and her cats, Marlena and Celeste brews a cup of coffee and sits down at her oval dining room table.
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