More or Less: Behind the Stats - QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?

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In December, Republican politician Lauren Boebert tweeted the claim that ‘365,348 children went missing in 2020’. This is a shocking statistic but is it true and does it mean what we think it means? We speak to Gabriel Gatehouse, international editor of Newsnight, who has been investigating conspiracy theories including the Qanon conspiracy theory for a new podcast, The Coming Storm.

Published on Sunday, 16th January 2022.

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