Facebook is driving QAnon’s growth and enhancing its power

September 30, 2020 deep state

Archived 6 years ago from Los Angeles Times
Facebook is driving QAnon’s growth and enhancing its power

Five weeks out from the November election, virulent disinformation from domestic and foreign sources continues to fill internet platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. The most extreme voices are being amplified and conspiracy theories and lies are outcompeting expertise and facts on the …

QAnon

September 30, 2020 deep state

Archived 6 years ago from Los Angeles Times
Op-Ed: Facebook drove QAnon’s mad growth and enhanced its power to poison elections

‘Russia Doesn’t Have To Make Fake News’: Biggest Election Threat Is Closer To Home

QAnon

September 29, 2020 china, cia, covid19, russia

Archived 6 years ago from KPBS
‘Russia Doesn’t Have To Make Fake News’: Biggest Election Threat Is Closer To Home

National security officials say the Kremlin is at it again: Just like in 2016, Russia is using social media to try to undermine the U.S. presidential election, only with even more sophisticated tools. But this time around, Russia may not have to try so hard. Social media companies and outside …

QAnon

September 29, 2020

Archived 6 years ago from The Guardian
The dangerous global spread of the QAnon conspiracy theory – podcast

This episode first aired on Today in Focus, the Guardian’s global daily news podcast. The Guardian US tech reporter Julia Carrie Wong talks to Anushka Asthana about the rise of QAnon, an online conspiracy theory. QAnon followers believe that the world is run by a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping …

Man accused of killing baby made violent ‘Save Our Children’ posts

QAnon

September 29, 2020 deep state

Archived 6 years ago from Insider
Man accused of killing baby made violent ‘Save Our Children’ posts

The man accused of killing a 10-month-old baby in Oklahoma spread “Save Our Children” rhetoric on Facebook, which has been linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory movement. Joshua Jennings, 33, was arrested on a first-degree murder charge for the death of his girlfriend’s child Friday. Jennings’ …

QAnon

September 29, 2020

Archived 6 years ago from CBS San Francisco
QAnon ‘Much Larger Than Any Of Us Are Wrapping Our Heads Around’: Far-Right Conspiracy Group Stuns ’60 In 6′ On Quibi Correspondent Laurie Segall

(CBS Local)– Conspiracy theory groups have been ever present during the history of the internet, but few have cut through the mainstream worlds of politics and media like QAnon. The far-right group of conspiracy theorists have gained steam in a world where facts are questioned like never before. …

QAnon

September 29, 2020

Archived 6 years ago from The Guardian
What is QAnon and why is it so dangerous? – video explainer

Donald Trump has referred to QAnon followers as ‘people who love our country‘ – while to the FBI considers them a potential domestic terror threat. The Guardian US technology reporter Julia Carrie Wong explains the roots – and rise – of QAnon, the unfounded conspiracy theory that emerged in the US …

QAnon

September 29, 2020 5g, adrenochrome, antivax, big tech, covid19, deep state, pizzagate

Archived 6 years ago from The Ferret
QAnon: Scottish child abuse protests linked to US conspiracy cult

Protests against child trafficking in Scottish cities have links to a far-right conspiracy cult from America called QAnon that believes President Trump is fighting a secret war against an international cabal of Satan-worshippers. The Ferret has found that demonstrations organised through Facebook, …

QAnon

September 29, 2020 deep state

Archived 6 years ago from Mankato Free Press
Our View: State GOP must repudiate QAnon conspiracy

As in other states, Minnesota has become fertile ground for misinformation and conspiracy theories fueled by political polarization. Unfortunately, one of the most bizarre, false conspiracy movements is taking hold among Republican candidates in the state. The Star Tribune reports that at least a …

QAnon

September 28, 2020 big tech, china

Archived 6 years ago from Wired.co.uk
As the election looms, QAnon is seeping into local Facebook groups

Getty Images / WIRED Arguments about the upcoming US presidential election are getting heated in Canton, the county seat of Stark County in the swing state of Ohio. Stark County is an emblematic patch of America in northeastern Ohio, with a population of over 370,00; it voted for Obama twice before …

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