Episode #170: Jesselyn Cook

In Episode #170, Jess joins Osi to discuss her debut book, The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family. They examine how the QAnon movement/conspiracy theory gained a foothold in the lives of many Americans, its far-reaching and devastating effects on families across the nation, and much more.

Jesselyn Cook is an award-winning reporter, author and journalism lecturer, as well as a 2025 Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Prior to covering the tech beat as an investigative reporter at NBC News, she was a senior reporter on the national enterprise desk at HuffPost. Her debut book, a work of narrative nonfiction called The Quiet Damage, is out now.