1/ The last few weeks I’ve been looking into QAnon and specifically its international spread. Two disturbing takeaways:
1) QAnon is a cult gone global. Even countries that have invested heavily into ensuring democratic resilience, like Finland and the Baltics, aren’t immune.
1) QAnon is a cult gone global. Even countries that have invested heavily into ensuring democratic resilience, like Finland and the Baltics, aren’t immune.
2/ Finland scores at or near the top of multiple indices, incl. trust in media, education, happiness, gender equality, social justice, etc. It has invested into a comprehensive national strategy to combat disinformation. Even so, it is reckoning with a new far-right populism...
3/ ...driven by economic anxiety, euroscepticism, and anti-migrant xenophobia. And that’s where QAnon has found a foothold.
2) The idea that Trump is universally despised and a laughingstock outside the US simply isn’t true. He is a hero to the international QAnon community...
2) The idea that Trump is universally despised and a laughingstock outside the US simply isn’t true. He is a hero to the international QAnon community...
4/ ...which believes him to be the grandmaster of a global crusade against Evil (the Deep State, globalist elites, MSM, Jews, the Catholic Church, pedovores...take your pick).
In several countries, QAnon believers have actually called for Trump to come “liberate them”.
In several countries, QAnon believers have actually called for Trump to come “liberate them”.
5/ This thread by @_MAArgentino, one of the most authoritative experts on QAnon, details the scale of its global spread:
