A physical science professor at Ferris State University was placed on administrative leave after a student-run newspaper found he's repeatedly called Covid a hoax, posted anti-vaxx content, and said the moon landing, HIV and atomic bombs are fake.
In his tweets he claims Covid is a hoax and an "attempt to destroy Christianity", suggests the Mossad might have "blackmailed" Trump, says abortion is "ritual child scarifice" where "the fetal tissue is eaten by cannibals and vampires" and "fed to us in Pepsi and vaccines".
There are also some tweets with racial slurs which I'm not going to share.
I've seen tweets in which he's been referred to as a QAnon believer, but I can't find any evidence of that.
In fact, here, in response to British QAnon influencer Martin Geddes, he calls it a "psyop".
He's published a letter, in which he says he doesn't think Covid is a hoax, but "a stunt deisgned to enslave humanity" and repeats conspiracies about plans to microchip people with vaccines.
He also says he's being silenced by the "cancel culture".
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
THREAD: An update on the state of the digital campaign with one week to go before #Election2020
President Trump and @GOP have dominated social media interactions against Joe Biden and @TheDemocrats on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in October.
All data is from 1-27 October.
On Facebook, Mr Trump's page generated 130m interactions and 264m video views against 18m interactions and 50m video views for Mr Biden. On Instagram, Mr Trump had 52m interactions and 79m video views, with Mr Biden on 30m interactions and 43m video views.
On Twitter, @realDonaldTrump tweeted 667 times, against @JoeBiden with 412 tweets, and reached an audience nearly 12 times larger than Mr Biden.
@TeamTrump tweeted 868 times, against @TeamJoe on 249 tweets, and reached an audience nearly 51 times larger than the Biden campaign.
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.
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