{"id":9871,"date":"2019-03-05T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2019-03-05T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:08:28","slug":"the-qanon-bestseller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9871","title":{"rendered":"The Qanon bestseller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just so&#8217;s you know, The Good Ol&#8217; U.S. of A. is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/amazon-qanon-conspiracy-book-climbs-charts-algorithmic-push-n979181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no immediate danger<\/a> of running out of morons.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A book that pushes the conspiracy theory Qanon climbed within <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the top 75 of all books sold on Amazon<\/span> in recent days, pushed by Amazon\u2019s algorithmically generated recommendations page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQAnon: An Invitation to the Great Awakening,\u201d which has no stated author, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">ranked at No. 56 at press time<\/span>, was featured in the algorithmically generated \u201cHot new releases\u201d section on Amazon\u2019s books landing page. The <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">book claims without evidence<\/span> a variety of outlandish claims including that <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">prominent Democrats murder and eat children<\/span> and that the U.S. <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">government created both AIDS and the movie Monsters Inc.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re thinking this must be some kind of counterculture prank, as if it&#8217;s trendy to pretend to believe all this crazy stuff &#8230; No.  I know a totally respectable middle-aged couple with three children who are totally convinced there is all sorts of X-Files type stuff going on just slightly beyond the corners of their eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just so&#8217;s you know, The Good Ol&#8217; U.S. of A. is in no immediate danger of running out of morons. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9871\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9874,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions\/9874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}