At night, Jake read his mother’s Twitter posts to track her descent into QAnon. Brenda claimed that the January 6 rioters were working for Antifa. When a massive winter storm knocked out electricity across Texas, she posted conspiracy theories claiming that the snow was artificial, meaning that the snow was being created by a weather control machine to punish a red state. Eventually Twitter banned Brenda, forcing her into more obscure online communities like the messaging app Telegram and conservative social media network Parler. Jake found it harder to follow her there, but by then, he had
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