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QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020 and where did this claim come from?
In December, Republican politician Lauren Boebert tweeted the claim that β365,348 children went missing in 2020β. 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.
(Miami Florida, Interstate I-95 Missing Child Alert. Credit Jeffrey Greenberg /Getty Images)
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