A person carries a sign supporting QAnon during a May 2020 protest rally in Olympia, Wash.
Religion, education, race and media consumption are strong predictors of conspiracy theory acceptance among Americans, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute.
The survey of 5,149 adults living across the United States released on Thursday finds a strong correlation between consuming right-wing media sources and accepting conspiracy theories such as QAnon.
The poll examines ties between religious beliefs and belief in false conspiracy theories. White evangelicals and Hispanic Protestants were the most susceptible to the QAnon theory.
About 1 in 4 respondents from those religious groups said they believed that the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation, a statement associated with the false QAnon conspiracy theory.
The new poll also found that 24 percent of white evangelical Protestants and Mormons agree that "because things have gotten so off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in
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