Jesselyn Cook
Journalist and author Jesselyn Cook
The Back Room with Andy Ostroy · Produced by RFR and Andy Ostroy
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Jesselyn Cook is an award-winning investigative reporter and journalism lecturer who has written extensively about online conspiracy theories and their offline harms. Prior to covering the tech beat at NBC News, she was a senior reporter on HuffPost's national enterprise desk. Her new book is The Quiet Damage: Q Anon and the Destruction of the American Family.
Jesselyn shares her fascinating and at times chilling insights into the QAnon conspiracy phenomenon and its devastating effects on its followers' families. Her book is rare, intimate look into the psychology of how and why ordinary people come to believe the unbelievable.
More about the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706443/the-quiet-damage-by-jesselyn-cook/
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