Twitter is suspending the accounts of a number of influential QAnon followers tonight.
Among them is major QAnon influencer "RedPill78" who had 160,000 followers. His YouTube channel was removed just a week ago.
As @AlKapDC points out, Edge of Wonder's YouTube channel was also taken down last week.
Their Facebook page and Instagram account - with 230,000 and 28,000 followers respectively - are up at the moment. But they are warning their followers to expect the worst.
@RedPill78 not very happy about his suspension from Twitter, as you'd expect.
"Twitter just nuked me, I am officially a 100% Gab user. F*** Twitter, F*** Jack, F*** Media Matters and F*** their surrogates. Last tweet," he posted on Gab.
With major platforms increasingly taking tougher measures against QAnon, the numbers on platforms like Gab, Parler and Telegram are swelling up. In a couple of weeks, these two QAnon groups on Gab have added thousands of members and now boast 27K and 16K members respectively.
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I'm thinking about doing a series of deep dives about some of the most bizarre communities and oddest characters the global rise of QAnon in 2020 has attracted.
There are odd, fascinating Q circles in the UK, South Korea, the Netherlands, Japan, Germany and Iran, to name a few.
The Iranian QAnon online community is led by a former state TV game show host who fled nearly a decade ago despite being a high-profile celebrity. He now leads a "Make Iran Great Again" movement from the US and wants to become the next leader of Iran with President Trump's help
Then there's Joseph Gregory Hallett, or King John III, as he refers to himself, a middle-aged man from New Zealand who genuinely believes he is the actual King of England and will reclaim the throne from the Queen when "the storm" comes. @QanonAnonymous did an episode about him
UPDATE: This tweet by @realDonaldTrump right at the end of the debate has now surpassed all the others and is officially the most popular tweet of the night with 78K retweets and 168K likes #Debates2020
I'm working on one of the most bizarre QAnon communities on Twitter, a network of highly prolific Japanese QAnon accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers. They translate Q drops into Japanese, caption QAnon-themed videos and constantly add more users to the network.
What's incredible to me is just how Q-pilled the network is. For instance, they even have their own "JFK Jr is live" sect within the network, which just blows my mind. They're also fully dedicated to the plan. Meet Joe M's "Q - The Plan to Save the World" fully dubbed in Japanese
They are incredibly well-resourced. They have their own website, their own Q-Map in Japanese, an online store selling Q merchandise in Japanese, a thread in Japanese on 8kun, a YouTube channel, and a BitChute channel, and a Patreon. They're also active on Facebook and Instagram
Wow. @DHSgov officials have concluded those threatening emails that arrived in Democratic voters' inboxes were not sent by the the Proud Boys. They were in fact sent by Iranian hackers taking advantage of a vulnerability in the Proud Boys' online network. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, minutes ago: "We have already seen Iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters, incite social unrest and damage President Trump... You may have been one of the recipients of those emails."
Here's the bit about this I don't understand. Please help me if you can. Iran prefers to see President Trump lose becaue of his administration's "maximum pressure" policy. They are pretty much open about this. Why in heaven's name would they want to intimidate Democratic voters?
NEW: I've spent the last 3 months investigating the rise of QAnon in the UK and Save Our Children rallies up and down the country. I've spent hours in their Facebook groups, attended their rallies and talked to the protesters. Here's how it happened bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…
In May, a young woman began engaging with David Icke and QAnon influencers in the US and Canada on social media about Covid-19 lockdowns, George Floyd protests, and global child trafficking. A few weeks later, she launched Freedom for the Children UK bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…
The Facebook group quickly took off, amassing more than 13,000 members. On 22 August, they launched their first round of nationwide Save Our Children rallies. Hundreds attended. By September, they had held rallies in more than 20 UK towns and cities bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…