Will Smith, right, hits presenter Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars on Sunday, which launched a host of conspiracy theories. Photo by AP Photo/Chris Pizzell
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But the insanity didn’t stop there. Over on the QAnon channels, where believers already see Hollywood as a cesspit of pedophiles who drink children’s blood, the incident was instantly dismissed as a fake—to distract the world from the real horrors of the widespread children sex trafficking they believe all Hollwood actors (except for Jim Caviezel) are involved in.
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