He went down the QAnon rabbit hole for two years. Here’s how he got out – CNN

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Story by Bronte Lord and Richa Naik, CNN Business
Video by Richa Naik and Sofia Barrett, CNN Business

Updated 6:28 PM ET, Fri October 16, 2020

One day in June 2019, Jitarth Jadeja went outside to smoke a cigarette. For two years he’d been in the virtual cult of QAnon. But now he’d watched a YouTube video that picked apart the last element of the theory he believed in. Standing there smoking, he would say later, he felt “shattered.” He had gone down the QAnon rabbit hole; now, having emerged from it, he had no idea what to do next.

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          Jitarth Jadeja looks at a photo of himself as a child next to his father. (Bill Code for CNN Business)Jitarth Jadeja looks at a photo of himself as a child next to his father. (Bill Code for CNN Business)

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