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14 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Internet conspiracies take decades-old tactics for radicalization and cult recruitment and turn them to the masses online.

We are seeing them in response to the U.S. presidential election result: thestar.com/news/canada/20…
A poll shows 21 per cent of respondents do not believe Biden won the election

Underlying that resistance is a mysterious character of Q, an anonymous internet poster or posters, claiming to have access to classified government information. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
Disputing Q’s misinformation is an almost entirely futile affair, a Star #contributor says. Here’s what may actually work — and some of what almost certainly won’t. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
It may all seem very confusing, so #ThisMatters #podcast lifted the veil on what QAnon is, how it’s spread like a virus in mainstream discourse and why internet-fuelled (and false) beliefs carry real consequences. thestar.com/podcasts/thism…

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