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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 of them. But I had never received an email like this before.

Kiley had been working as a sales contractor for AT&T when, she claimed, she found proof that the telecom giant was letting intelligence agencies spy on customers’ phone calls. She became convinced the deep state knew about her discovery and was going to punish her for it. Strangers she saw on the street were stalking her. Kiley started to describe herself online as a “targeted individual,” a term used by a thriving internet community of paranoiacs who believe they’re being pursued by shadowy forces.

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/the-spectacular-rise-and-fall-of-austin-steinbarts-qanon-commune