Anonymous ID: ef7f44 Sept. 6, 2020, 2:45 a.m. No.10545083   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5123 >>5228

He once thought Hillary Clinton and Lady Gaga ate babies. Now he wants to help people out of QAnon

 

Stephen Ross went from being one of Lady Gaga’s “little monsters” in high school to believing she was a cannibal pedophile.

 

The Massachusetts native says he was a sheltered kid with “overprotective” parents who severely restricted his screen time before he left home at age 18, shortly after coming out as gay.

 

He entered the world a smart but insecure and gullible bleeding heart — the perfect mark.

 

When one of his first serious boyfriends — a fan of InfoWars host Alex Jones — introduced him to the “truther” movement that considers the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, he started his lengthy fall down the rabbit hole.

 

“I became obsessed with Sandy Hook. I got enraged. I couldn’t believe they’d have kid actors,” Ross, 27, told the Daily News about his descent and eventual extrication from the perverse patchwork of conspiracy theories now underpinning the unhinged world of QAnon.

 

A subsequent boyfriend got Ross involved in an “evangelical cult” that further distorted his world view, he said. By the second half of 2016, he was lost in a morass of online conspiracy theories fed to him by algorithms that compounded and reinforced what he saw, he explained.

 

“What really got me freaking out was PizzaGate,” Ross said, referring to the baseless conspiracy theory that asserted Democratic leaders were part of a child trafficking ring connected to a pizza parlor….

 

He met the love of his life, got engaged, and with his new fiancé bought the rights to the web address DebunkQanon.com, he said.

 

They plan to launch the website before the election with research debunking many of the main conspiracy theories behind QAnon.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/he-once-thought-hillary-clinton-and-lady-gaga-ate-babies-now-he-wants-to-help-people-out-of-qanon/ar-BB18KtlA?li=BBnb7Kz

 

Pic 1: Stephen Ross

Pic 2: Ross with Gaga