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Flags and banners waving one of the conspiracy slogans – “WWG1WGA”, an acronym for “where we go one, let’s all go”) splashed the crowd in a demonstration opposed to the lockouts in Germany last month.
And when Trump visited Japan in 2019, he greeted through cardboard clippings of the letter Q.
They’re not remote bodies either. Researchers have discovered giant QAnon communities in more than 70 countries.
The initial conspiracy theory focused heavily on an alleged clique of deep state figures and Hollywood elites who run child trafficking networks that Trump runs with the army to denounce. -Semtic voltages more explicitly.
Experts who spoke to The Hill about the spread of the theory said it had worsened due to coronavirus, which in itself is the subject of many conspiracy theories, which has helped create a typhoon of mistrust of established governments and public fitness institutions.
“Pandemics feed a lot of questions and make other people very skeptical, especially in cases where what we, credible and trustworthy establishments, suddenly seem not to have the right answers or is not aligned with how to fix the situation,” said Anna-Sophie Harling, head of the NewsGuardArray media evaluation team for Europe in an interview.
“The plots are based on the concept that we are all lied to through greater authority or voice and QAnon is perfectly connected to that.
The short hyperviral documentary “Out of the Shadows” has fueled un baseless theories linking the origins of coronavirus with Bill Gates, 5G Towers and the World Health Organization, Alex Newhouse, director of virtual at the Center for Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute, told The Hill.
And as institutional mistrust grew, QAnon, which first generated much of the misinformation, was able to take hold.
Another way the pandemic has contributed to the foreign spread of QAnon is to isolate others and leave them with nothing else to do online.
“Because other people don’t paint that much, other people spend a lot more time online and go into those burrows,” said Travis View, co-amphitrion of the “QAnon Anonymous” podcast.
Social media has been the main driving force behind QAnon’s external growth.
In a report released last month, NewsGuard discovered QAnon’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages with thousands of subscribers across Europe. Many of these centers of the QAnon network have used the COVID-19 pandemic to expand their success and link the virus to the “deep state”, one of the main enemies of theory.
QAnon’s online presence has also been discovered in Australia, Russia, Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela. Followers have also spread to other suspicious government communities, from anti-vaccination equipment to others who oppose the use of masks that restrict the spread of COVID. -19.
QAnon’s proselytism can be subtle. A message published this week in a British anti-mask organization celebrating not dressing in masks at points of sale received a long observation agreement ending with “I say jesus is my Lord and not Satan,” a nod to QAnon’s satanic message of panic.
“Mother bloggers” and Instagram influencers have also begun to reflect QAnon’s speech problems throughout his general messages of meditation or non-secular energy, according to View.
Many social media platforms have taken steps for this spread.
In July, Twitter banned thousands of accounts not affiliated with QAnon and implemented policies to restrict its spread. Last month, Facebook removed 900 teams and pages from its platform as a component of an offensive against QAnon and expanded its policy against violent extremism.
However, these efforts have failed. A quick search for terms not associated with QA on any of the platforms produces many results. The challenge of identifying and eliminating these computers becomes even more complicated when they are international, given the small number of content moderators used through social media corporations in a mother. language other than English.
Other social media platforms, such as the messaging app Telegram, that stream QAnon content, have done little to engage you.
“Telegram is much more in some European countries, especially in the post-Soviet world . . . it’s a little more lax in terms of content moderation,” said Zarine Kharazian, assistant editor of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Laboratory.
It’s hard to know how many QAnon members are abroad, or in the United States for that matter. The extension of foreign Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages known through experts and The Hill provides enough evidence to recommend that the number is in the tens of thousands.
The versions of QAnon abroad are quite similar to the theory in Etts-Unis. Il is deeply anti-Semitic, presents Holocaust Jewish survivor George Soros as puppeteer politicians and is obviously inspired by his “global Kabbale” of the Protocols of the Ancients of Zion, a false document traditionally used to defame the Jewish community.
QAnon Abroad also helps keep Trump a vital figure, albeit to varying degrees. In countries where the leader has close ties to the PRESIDENT of the United States, the leader has a close ties to the President of the United States, the leader has a close ties to the President of the United States. Usa, They are seen as white hats, a term used through net paintings to describe those who paint in government to denounce the deep state.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been mentioned in a “Q drop”, the cryptic messages posted through an unknown character who claims to have inside information on the 8kun image board that shapes the basis of the conspiracy.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is another figure noticed by many on the net as a white hat because of his ties to QAnon’s prolific poster, Tim Stewart, who banned Twitter this week.
The confidence that elites, whose express examples vary from country to country, direct child trafficking networks, turns out to be provided in each and every version of QAnon. The claim that they are used to collect adrenochrome, an easy-to-obtain chemical compound to stay young has become a community-specific obsession, according to Newhouse.
The exterior of QAnon has also begun to manifest itself physically.
In addition to the presence of QAnon symptoms and sympathizers during the anti-lockout protests, experts who the network has also played a leading role in the “Save the Children” rallies that have taken a stand around the world. QAnon members have flooded social media for weeks with posts about child trafficking, a valid fear that deserves attention.
QAnon supporters, however, have used this genuine challenge as a way to lure others into their conspiracy while doing little to combat traffic and genuine solutions that are difficult to understand.
Cases of violence have not yet been linked to QAnon, unlike the United States, where it has been linked to several cases of criminal activity.
But observers say they are involved in violence, and say that the fact that proponents of the plot eagerly await the execution of parties to political conflict shows how this can be just a global threat.
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