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On Sunday, Elon Musk, who some are calling the shadow president, shared a QAnon-themed meme on his social media platform, the once beloved Twitter. The meme, which is defending Trump nominees Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard, features a Pepe the ...

As Trump is stationed in Mar-a-Lago plotting his return to power, he has once again amplified a QAnon account on Truth Social. The fringe group believes that elite celebrities and others are trafficking children in part to harvest their blood ...

After the insurrection on Jan. 6, I posted a question on social media asking if ministers across the United States would denounce violence and white supremacy. As we watched angry rioters scream “Jesus is my president, Trump is my savior” ...

Although the mystery of the forum poster known as Q has been all but solved – it's the guys who run 8chan, of course it's always been the guys who run 8chan – the movement they've inspired has kept gathering ...

X owner Elon Musk spends a lot of time posting extreme right-wing talking points and misinformation on his social media platform. But on the eve of Election Day, shortly before NBC News projected Donald Trump's re-election, Musk posted a pro-Trump ...

Billionaire Elon Musk made his final pitch to voters: Donald Trump’s campaign is going full Q-Anon. The world’s richest man posted a dizzying nostalgic “Trump hype video” Monday night that begins with a threat: “If you do something bad to ...

Elon Musk shared a video in support of Donald Trump that appeared to include references to the extremist QAnon ideology and footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, elevating the radicalized movement on the evening before ...

This isn’t the first time Musk has referenced QAnon. Mikael Thalen Posted on November 5 2024 8:04 am CST Elon Musk’s ongoing descent into radicalism reached a new milestone on Monday after the billionaire amplified a QAnon-themed video produced by ...

Jill’s costume led conspiracy theorists to begin discussing “Panda Eyes.” Mikael Thalen Posted on November 5 2024 6:00 am CST In each edition of web_crawlr we have exclusive original content every day. On Mondays our Tech Reporter Mikael Thalen debunks ...

Nicole Shanahan, the former running mate of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appeared to promote a conspiracy theory about government-led child abuse Thursday during an event featuring GOP nominee Donald Trump.Shanahan, who has endorsed the prospect of what ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has amplified QAnon-promoting accounts nearly 1,000 times during the roughly two and a half years he’s been posting on his social media platform Truth Social, according to a Media Matters review.In our review, we deemed ...

‘They’ve been running a sting operation for the last 8 years and the hammer comes down after Trump wins.’ Mikael Thalen Posted on October 28 2024 10:01 am CDT QAnon supporters are convinced that their wildest fantasies will soon come ...

Five years ago, the television writer Matthew Scott Kane sold “Hysteria!,” a scripted drama that takes place in the late 1980s. The series was inspired in part by the tumult of misinformation he found online and in the media of ...

Gene Ho, a conservative conspiracy theorist, spoke at a QAnon rally at the Washington Monument in Washington in September 2019.TOM BRENNER/NYTJournalists and academics have been warning about the potential for misinformation to wreak havoc on the 2024 election. But QAnon, ...

Online marketplace Etsy, famous for its small, independent shops, is removing all QAnon merchandise from its site, the latest in a series of platform crackdowns on the unfounded and sprawling conspiracy theory.QAnon followers have an intertwined series of beliefs, based ...

Michael Flynn admitted in a court deposition earlier this year that one of the biggest election fraud claims pushed by Donald Trump and his supporters had no evidence to back it up. CNN reports that the QAnon devotee and former ...

The image being hailed by conspiracy theorists is an obvious AI fake. Mikael Thalen Posted on October 22 2024 6:00 am CDT In each edition of web_crawlr we have exclusive original content every day. On Mondays our Tech Reporter Mikael ...

Conspiracy theorists are using artificial intelligence (AI) in an attempt to prop up claims promoted by the QAnon movement. Featured Video In posts to the pro-QAnon message board The Great Awakening this weekend, supporters outlined their use of numerous AI ...

BEN MOORE (QANON INFLUENCER AND AMERICA’S FUTURE ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER): I'm going to think big. I'm going to think proactively in this situation. Trump is going to get reelected one way or the other. OK? The people that have been ...

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