Numerous mainstream media outlets disparaged the anti-child trafficking thriller Sound of Freedom as being based on nothing but a “conspiracy theory” linked to “Q Anon.”
Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, CNN and The Guardian all condemned the box office hit, which is based on true events, as a baseless conspiracy born out of the Q Anon movement.
Rolling Stone claimed the film was “designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer.”
WaPo accused the “low-budget” film’s star, Jim Caveizel, who plays former DHS agent and child rescuer Tim Ballard, of “embracing Q Anon,” while the Guardian called it a “paranoid Q-adjacent thriller.”
CNN claimed the drama injected “Q Anon concepts” like child trafficking to induce a “moral panic.”
On The Sound of Freedom, CNN says child sex trafficking is real, but "these films are created out of moral panics… it specifically is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings." Do you want more QAnon because this is how you get more QAnon. pic.twitter.com/IsIRWVp1X3
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 8, 2023
