evidence: When a large, makeshift medical facility was set up near New York’s Central Park in April 2020, most Americans accepted it at face value: a treatment center for COVID-19 patients. Where some saw health care, though, others saw conspiracy. According to one group of right-wingers, the large white tents weren’t a medical facility at all, but rather a clever cover for a heroic mission: Trump’s administration was planning to rescue the "mole children." Just hours after the white tents appeared, followers of the conspiracy theory known as QAnon concocted this elaborate story: in a network of underground tunnels beneath Central Park, children had been bred and raised for sexual slavery. These "mole children" were raised underground, kept in cages, destined to feed the dark desires of an elite society of devil worshippers. The Trump administration was fighting back, however: the president had given orders for military special forces to storm the tunnels and liberate the children.