People in the crowd said they believed John F. Kennedy Jr, who died in 1999, would appear Tuesday in Dealey Plaza, where his father was killed in 1963.
The spectacle captivated people, some amused at the ridiculousness of the far-fetched theory that Kennedy faked his death. But the size of Tuesday’s gathering was concerning for Jared Holt, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab who researches domestic extremism. The claim about Kennedy Jr.
Holt, who monitors online communities like QAnon, saw the Kennedy Jr. theory appear on a handful of Telegram channels trafficking in numerology, when people ascribe different kinds of significance to dates and numbers. However, the theory is written off,“It surprised me that as many people showed up as they did for something as specific and outlandish as they did,” Holt said. “It was not like this claim is everywhere. This was like a pocket of QAnon.
“For people to be in the state of mind where they are utterly and hopelessly detached from reality opens up very dangerous possibilities for what that individual may do going forward,” Holt said. “Even though this event is ripe for mockery, and I think people should allow themselves to laugh, I think we need to reconcile with the fact that hundreds of people turn out for a celebrity who has been dead for two decades,” he said.“What drove them out to the streets is a kind of a representation of a broader sickness,” he added.Kennedy Jr. died after crashing his six-seater plane in the Atlantic off Martha’s Vineyard in 1999.
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