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19 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW from me:

Increasingly militant 'Parler refugees' and anxious QAnon adherents prep for doomsday

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
QAnon followers largely believe tomorrow will be The Storm, or the mass execution of Democrats as Donald Trump becomes permanent president. They're buying ham radios and warning loved ones.

It's tearing families apart. I talked to one of them.

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
Since the Capitol insurrection and Parler shutdown, white supremacists on Telegram have been sharing guides on how to radicalize "normie" Trump supporters.

Extremists call them "Parler refugees," and they're being redpilled in record time.

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
Anyways, I hope you read this one.

A good portion of the country is preparing for a judgment day tomorrow, a completely alternate reality where Democrats are rounded up and Donald Trump is redeemed.

What's going to happen when none of this comes to pass?
nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…

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Ben Collins Profile picture
17 Jan
Over the last few years, I kept in touch with some QAnon supporters through DMs, checking in on them to see if they'd ever come out of it when their next doomsday came and went.

They'd typically first message me calling me a Satanic pedophile. I'd ignore it and ask questions.
Usually they would draw hard lines. A big one was D5, which everyone thought would be mass arrests on December 5th two years ago. Didn't happen, didn't matter.

It's about belief, anticipation, an advent calendar. One day soon, their problems would be fixed.
I would check in the week after the failed doomsdays. They'd point to a Q post like scripture, and say some ridiculous event proved it was still happening. An earthquake somewhere, a service interruption on GMail.

I learned something: these people don't want to be humiliated.
Read 7 tweets
Ben Collins Profile picture
13 Jan
People keep attempting to otherize QAnon adherents as inherently dumb, low class, and automatically mentally ill.

Radicalization can affect anyone, especially those longing for identity or answers in a difficult time.
We are at one of the hardest parts of this journey as a country: the future will demand empathy for the mildly radicalized, some of whom may sound crazed or vicious.

But it’s necessary. We’re going to have to be kind, and strong, to bring our friends and family back to reality.
A lot of people appropriately dunking on me for this tweet.

I'm talking about people who send you flat earth videos and viral rumors about upcoming "blackouts."

You cannot give an inch to white supremacy in any form, they will take a mile.
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Ben Collins Profile picture
12 Jan
NEW from me:

After social media ban, QAnon warnings of a 'blackout' move to viral text messages

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
You might've received a text message from a loved one saying not to update your iPhone because it'll disable your Emergency Broadcasting System.

This is not remotely true. It's a QAnon conspiracy theory, and it's everywhere since the Parler shutdown.
nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
The viral text rumor is that you need to stock up on supplies because there's a "blackout" coming.

What your friend who texted you may not tell you is that this is a QAnon rumor, pushed by people who think Trump is about to take over the country.

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/… Image
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Ben Collins Profile picture
11 Jan
QAnon is the idea that a secret government insider is revealing Trump's secret war with child eaters in posts on 8kun.

You know it's him because he has a "tripcode," a de facto password, that allows only Q to post.

Most people get Q posts from aggregators and don't go to 8kun.
Q, himself, has not posted in over a month, since 12/8. Q's only posted three vague posts since the election.

QAnon is now effectively a decentralized movement, where believers rely on old Q posts, cite them like Bible verses, and rely on influencers to "decode" old ones.
It's unlikely that Q is one man or that Q is the same person as the one who posted the first time. Q has changed sites several times:

- from 4chan to 8chan after the password (matlock) leaked
- from 8chan to 8kun after 8chan was shut down for hosting white nationalist manifestos
Read 4 tweets
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8 Jan
BREAKING: The president has been suspended from Twitter, per Twitter.
Twitter will have a statement momentarily, source tells me.
Twitter has banned President Trump "due to the risk of further incitement of violence."

Read 8 tweets
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8 Jan
BREAKING: Twitter is taking dramatic action on remaining QAnon accounts for breaking their "Coordinated Harmful Activity" rules, some of whom heavily promoted Wednesday's storming of the Capitol.

Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell, 8kun's Ron Watkins banned.

Twitter's statement below:
Mike Flynn had taken an "oath" QAnon last year. He and Sidney Powell advised the president on attempts to override the election in the last month. Powell is now being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for $1.3 billion.

Major players in the Q universe, both now banned from Twitter.
Ron Watkins, who runs the site where Q from QAnon posts and whom many believe may be Q himself, is now also banned from Twitter.

He spent the last month targeting private citizens with claims of election fraud. He lives in Japan and runs 8kun, a site born in the Philippines.
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