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The Deep State
QAnon began with an October 2017 post on the far-right message board 4chan, thought to be the first time the anonymous poster “Q” issued a conspiratorial missive, known as a “drop,” to the world. The Atlantic’s Adrienne LaFrance, who wrote a definitive investigation of QAnon, told NPR, “I never got …
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An emboldened community of believers known as QAnon is spreading a baseless patchwork of conspiracy theories that are fooling Americans who are looking for simple answers in a time of intense political polarization, social isolation and economic turmoil. Experts call QAnon a “digital cult” because …
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QMap.pub received more than 10 million visitors in July according to web analytics company SimilarWeb. The site served as an aggregator of “Q drops,” which are anonymous posts on the website 8kun by someone claiming to have a high-level government security clearance providing inside information. A …
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-Jason Gelinas, an employee at Citigroup Inc., has been placed on paid leave pending an internal investigation after he was identified as the operator of the most prominent website dedicated to the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to three people familiar with the matter. Gelinas, who lives in …
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Lauren Witzke, a far-right activist who’s previously expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, won the Republican primary for a US Senate seat in Delaware on Tuesday. Witzke has posed in a QAnon-branded t-shirt and repeatedly tweeted out the QAnon motto, WWG1WGA, which stands for Where We …
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We all know President Donald Trump is a compulsive liar and gullible audience for baseless conspiracy theories. But we don’t always get confirmation like Bob Woodward’s taped interviews showing the president blatantly lied to the American people about the transmissibility and deadliness of the …
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Neither does it seem to be the case that Austin Steinbart, a man many once believed to be “Q,” had prophetic insight into the inner workings of the U.S. government because he received messages from his future self through quantum computing. Steinbart, recently jailed for violating the terms of his …
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President Donald Trump retweeted a post on Tuesday that featured the hashtag “PedoBiden,” pushing a fringe theory against his 2020 Democratic presidential opponent, Joe Biden. The 2015 video shows Biden touching the shoulders of an adult woman at an event in the White House, but the accusation is …
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Advertising Read more Paris (AFP) QAnon, the US-based conspiracy about a Satan-worshipping, paedophile cabal secretly running the world, is taking root in Europe feeding on fears stirred up by the coronavirus outbreak, analysts say. Anti-vaxxers, white supremacists and government sceptics in Europe …
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