Seems like folks are afraid to ask whether Qanon is an industrial grade influence operation because it feels safer to just assume it’s a random amateur who struck gold for the lulz.
but you know I could just be spending too much time re-reading Section J in #SSCIvol5 
Those companies are all dead and buried now but new ones sprout up from the fertilizer. Report shows in vivid detail how the campaign was welcoming a barrage of defense contractor and private intel proposals from foreign black op shops, executions of which remain murky. #SSCIvol5
But…big but. @BrandyZadrozny and @oneunderscore__ traced origins to amateurs, emergent memetics, the boundaries between grifting recommendation engines blurred with absorption of fascist drift and a saturation of information warfare. nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna9… h/t @JoelNihlean
