QAnon
Two teams of forensic linguists have been working to track down the identity of Q, an anonymous writer claiming to be a government insider who has been fueling the conspiracy movement QAnon since 2017. The teams have used a machine learning program to identify two men as the potential origin of Q. Who Is Q?This research was publicized in a New York Times report Saturday, and named South African software developer Paul Furber as the most likely person behind the very first Q posts. They also alleged that Furber collaborated with Ron Watkins to compose messages under the pseudonym. Furber and Wa...
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Election night in Dallas, Texas on November 2, a large group of QAnon supporters gathered for what they thought would be the return of John F. Kennedy Jr., who famously died in a plane crash in 1999. On the street in downtown Dallas, where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, is where they falsely believed former President Donald Trump would be reinstated as the president of the United States, according to many QAnon conspiracy theory accounts across various social media. QAnon’s popularity increased when Joe Biden was elected president in November 2020, with the conspiracists c...
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HBO viewers stepping into the word of QAnon in its new docuseries, Q: Into the Storm, which premiered on March 21 on HBO and HBOMax. Shot over the past three years, director Cullen Hoback set out to document the infamous QAnon conspiracy theory that some high-level Democrats are villainous child-sex traffickers and that former president Donald Trump had to be put in office to stop their evil. Many of its supporters participated in the Capitol riots on January 6. Hoback went on a quest to find out the identity of Q and how this far-right idea migrated into the mainstream and divided the country...
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On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) claimed he did not know what QAnon is in a conversation with reporters regarding Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia). “I think it would be helpful if you could hear exactly what she told all of us,” McCarthy said. “Denouncing Q-on, I don’t know if I say it right, I don’t even know what it is – any from the shootings, she said she knew nothing about lasers, all of the different things that have been brought up about her.” QAnon is a conspiracy theory, some also refer to it as a cult, that falsely claims a Satanic, cannibalistic, pe...
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Geneva (AFP) - The mysterious "Q" behind the QAnon conspiracy movement, which was instrumental in the storming of the US Capitol, is in fact two people, according to Swiss experts. Swiss startup OrphAnalytics said it had used its algorithm-based machine-learning text analysis software, developed to detect plagiarism, to help crack the mystery behind QAnon. "There are clearly two styles characterising the QAnon messages," company chief Claude Alain Roten told AFP in an interview at his home in western Switzerland. The conspiracy movement is based on messages by "Q Clearance Patriot", who claims...
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Washington (AFP) - A Georgia woman who has promoted the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory won a seat in the US House of Representatives Tuesday, meaning the controversial and widely debunked movement will soon have a voice in Congress.Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had never run for political office before, was well ahead and projected to win her race for US House District 14, some two months after President Donald Trump hailed her as a "future Republican star."But her promotion of QAnon -- a far-right movement claiming that Trump is waging a secret war against a global liberal cult of...
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NBC moderator Savannah Guthrie admonished President Donald Trump for his habit of retweeting conspiracy theories that sometimes get flagged by Twitter as containing misinformation, telling him Thursday that he’s not just “someone’s crazy uncle.”Guthrie specifically brought up one retweet by the president in which the user claimed former Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama created an elaborate cover-up in which the Navy SEAL Team Six faked the death of Osama bin Laden.“That was a retweet,” Trump responded. “That was an opinion of somebody and that was a retweet. I’ll put it out...
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Paris (AFP) - A surge in child trafficking misinformation pushed by QAnon conspiracy theorists is stirring public panic, generating violence and interfering with official efforts to protect minors, experts warn.From the US to South Africa, AFP Fact Check has debunked claims about girls found locked in shipping containers or lured in the street with roses fitted with a location-tracking chip.A Facebook post shared one million times last month claimed 39 missing children had been found in a trailer in the US state of Georgia. In reality, they were discovered in separate locations in August as pa...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Facebook on Tuesday announced a ban on all accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy group, as the social network tries to clamp down on misinformation ahead of the heated US presidential election.The move against QAnon at Facebook and its image-sharing platform Instagram comes as the online giant tries to avoid being used to deceive or confuse voters, as was the case during the 2016 election that put US President Donald Trump in the White House."We will remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content," th...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Facebook on Tuesday announced a ban on all accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy group at the leading social network and its image-sharing community Instagram."We will remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content," the internet titan said in a blog post.The moves steps up Facebook's efforts to clamp down on misinformation campaigns sometimes endorsed by President Donald Trump, weeks ahead of the November 3 US election.The moves made across both Facebook and Instagram were against accounts tied to "o...
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