#2767: Adrienna DiCioccio

Adrienna DiCioccio is a conspiracy theorist and repeat InfoWars guest with ties to the Proud Boys and Roger Stone, and is perhaps most famous for organizing – or attempting to organize – a 2019 symbolic one-day boycott of social media sites to protest these sites’ alleged censorship of conservatives; together with Laura Loomer, she has also organized protests at Twitter’s headquarters in its pre-Elon-Musk days, and she has organized wingnut “free speech” rallies in DC. The campaigns gained a modicum of traction in wingnut circles who may or may not have been aware (they probably were) of the kind of views DiCioccio had in mind as being censored conservative viewpoints.

 

Notably, DiCioccio is a prominent promoter of QAnon conspiracy theories, claiming that what she perceives as US ruling elites are really covert Satan-worshipping child traffickers and cannibals, as well as a Sandy Hook truther, claiming that Sandy Hook was a false flag and that the government staged the 2012 elementary school shooting as a means for pushing gun control. DiCioccio was among the sources Alex Jones infamously promoted in his push for Sandy Hook trutherism. DiCioccio is also responsible for promoting weird QAnon-backed fake news hoaxes (subsequently a Snopes mainstay) about Oprah having been arrested for supposedly being part of a child sex-trafficking ring.

 

As you’d have expected, DiCioccio was also present in DC in connection with the January 6, 2021 insurrection, but seems not to have faced any charges.

 

Diagnosis: An angry, paranoid, minor but well-connected cogwheel in the garbled nonsense chaos machinery of contemporary wingnuttery, DiCioccio is yet another victim of the redpill epidemic. And she has, like redpill victims do, utterly forsaken the cognitive standards of accuracy, evidence and facts in favor of the familiar, paranoid conspiracies all the way down scheme of reasoning.