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J. Klein
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Based on the excerpts, J. Klein appears to be a journalist or researcher who documented the infrastructure enabling QAnon's spread, specifically examining how blockchain-based platforms like Steemit functioned as breeding grounds for conspiracy content. Their work is cited to support arguments about how decentralized platforms and their affordances—anonymity, lack of moderation, community self-governance—became architectural features that both enabled and amplified networked conspiracy movements. This connects directly to the course's interest in how technological systems, regardless of their ideological intent, shape social behavior and information ecosystems.
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