Willem Engel, the Pied Piper of Hamelin in Coronaland
A woman with a tea light sweetly sings "You're the Voice". A man in the street shouts out, "Heil Hitler!’. They have more in common than it seems. Both protest against the corona measures.
A woman with a tea light sweetly sings "You're the Voice". A man in the street shouts out, "Heil Hitler!’. They have more in common than it seems. Both protest against the corona measures.
QAnon is by far the most popular conspiracy theory in the Netherlands. Wherein lies the attraction?
Between the privacy activists, Hooligans and conspiracy theorists also turn up people associated with radical right-wing organizations at Virus Truth demonstrations. What make the coronasceptic ideas interesting for the ultra-right, vice versa?
With the outbreak of corona an information chemistry also broke out. Conspiracy thinkers of the old school merge online with hip influencers with a reach of millions, according to research together with the Utrecht Data School. It only takes one superspreader to keep an avalanche of conspiracies going on.
Coronaprotest – Maybe Danny Vonk said "something bad" to CDA MP Pieter Omtzigt after the demonstration against corona policy. But then that was not meant personally. No politician is right, zegt hij. They are pawns of the elite, of the pharmaceutical industry.
Conspiracy theory – Rapper Lange Frans had conspiracy thinker Janet Ossebaard in an interview uncontested all kinds of accusations against a large part of the Dutch elite. Up to murder fantasies.