The truth behind radicalisation, policing opinion versus policing action and a taste of QAnon

Sophia Moskalenko is a clinical and social psychologist who had developed a deep interest in what causes people, firstly, to get radicalised and, secondly, engaged in violence. Her work has profound consequences for our understanding of what causes people to hold radical views as well as take radical actions. The emergence of QAnon has seen Moskalenlo and co-author Mollie Bloom take a deep dive into that movement in a book called Pastels and Pedophiles. Iin this podcast she tells Tom Ravlic about radicalisation and offers a more informed basis of dealing with the QAnon phenomenon.

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