![]() ![]() QAnon and its complicated web of conspiracies are fast-growing in Europe, according to researchers. Trump also congratulated Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has voiced support for QAnon, after she won a Republican congressional primary contest in Georgia that month. “So I don’t know really anything about it other than they do supposedly like me.” “I heard that these are people that love our country”, Trump said in his first public comment on the subject. Members of the Trump administration have condemned the group, but Trump himself defended adherents at a news conference in August. One of the law enforcement officers was wearing a patch associated with the theory. Vice President Mike Pence was then photographed having a jovial conversation with members of the Broward County, Florida, SWAT team in November 2018. and I so appreciate kindness and courtesy. There are simply no words to explicate the profound and ineffable honor of meeting in the tabernacle of liberty, the Oval Office. Michael “Lionel” Lebron, a prominent supporter and promoter of the theory, was granted a photo with the president inside the Oval Office in August of that year. Twitter removed about 7,000 accounts in July, but the Washington Post reports roughly 93,000 remain.īelievers of the hoax have been linked to violence and plots to harm infrastructure and people, including the targeting of Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden and the killing of a Gambino crime boss on Staten Island.Īdherents began showing up at Trump campaign rallies in 2018 and continue to be sighted at these events. Twitter and Facebook have both removed hundreds of accounts associated with the conspiracy on their platforms, with Facebook announcing it would ban all Qanon accounts across their platforms on October 6. It’s unclear how many people ascribe to the far-reaching, far-right theories – and how seriously – but they have made their presence known both online and in real life.įacebook groups dedicated to the theory have millions of followers, according to documents resulting from an internal review seen by NBC News. QAnon demonstrators protest against child trafficking at a demonstration on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California Ī recent theory it has subsumed is that of PizzaGate, a 2016 conspiracy theory that claimed Democrats were running a child trafficking ring out of a popular pizzeria in Washington, DC.Ī man from North Carolina travelled to the pizzeria and opened fire with a rifle after delving into the theory. All of these deaths were major events in US politics and have their own set of years-old, surrounding conspiracies. Kennedy died in a plane crash, following the assassinations of both his father in 1963 and his uncle, Robert F Kennedy, in 1968 during his campaign for president. It has united various conspiracy theories, such as UFOs, Area 51 and faked-death plots.įor example, some followers believe that John F Kennedy Jr, the son of former president John F Kennedy, faked his death in 1999 and is Q. Q’s information is not limited to the satanic, child-trafficking cabal of liberal elites. Q’s messages moved to 8chan, another imageboard with links to white supremacy and child pornography and then to 8kun, 8chan’s successor. The QAnon conspiracy movement has exploded from the US political fringe into the global mainstream during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic Other posts are more cryptic, seemingly providing clues to a larger puzzle surrounding the plot to foil Trump, who was recruited by top military brass to run for president in 2016 to stop the satanic, child-trafficking cabal. The anonymous user has accused liberals of various stripes of being involved in the plot, including former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and liberal financier George Soros, causing accusations of anti-Semitism.Ĭelebrities and members of the media, too, are said to be involved. ![]() The post was named “Calm Before the Storm”, the storm being an event in which 100,000 politicians, business people and celebrities involved in the central plot will be gathered and held accountable. Q made their first revelation or “drop” in October 2017 on 4Chan, a controversial imageboard, or online forum that revolves around posting images, often with accompanying text and discussions. Given the subject matter, Q’s information surfaced on the darker corners of the internet. ![]()
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