2/ The most prominent careers built upon a QAnon foundation are those of Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert who endorsed QAnon during their bids for Congress.
3/ As @travis_view has covered extensively Majorie Taylor Greene's adherence to QAnon dates back to the it's inception in 2017, long predating her political career.
4/ Greene was not only an early adopter of the conspiracy theory, but she was also deeply entrenched in QAnon's more obscure aspects of the theory than her fellow candidates during her Congressional campaign, such as Seth Rich was killed by MS-13 assassins' hired by Obama
5/ Since beginning their terms both Greene and Boebert have pushed various conspiratorial narratives including the reignited “Stop the Steal” conspiracy which was one of the key narratives which encouraged the 6 January insurrection.
6/ Powell is one of the most prominent women on the political stage who's openly promoted the QAnon conspiracy. Even after the inauguration of President Biden, Powell continues to play an influential role in QAnon and conspiracy theorist circles by moving forward QAnon narratives
7/ Powell (like Lin Wood) can be described as neo-QAnon as she neither directly interprets Q-drops or is deeply enmeshed in the QAnon ideology, but she has built a following of conspiracy-minded actors and Trump supporters, who consume QAnon-adjacent content.
8/ Some female candidates used their QAnon bids for Congress as a springboard into broader far-right fame. In example, DeAnna Lorraine was shotrly taken under the wing of InfoWars, where she could spread conspiracies to a ready-made far-right audience.
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1/ My colleagues @Blyth_Crawford@FlorenceKeen and @hannah1_rose and I have been working on this massive report for weeks to provide insight into the state of domestics violent extremism after the first 100 days of the Biden administration. Here is what we found:
2/ We applied a mixed methods approach, leveraging data scientific methods and digital ethonography, in an effort to better understand MAGA-related groups, movements, and narratives both prior to and after Biden’s inauguration.
3/ It examines the various groups and movements that gained momentum under the administration, the key discourses and motivations of those that were a part of the 6 January insurrection, and how these have evolved.
2/ As @AlKapDC extensively covered in his monitoring of QAnon candidates, 38% of QAnon candidates were women. 42% of these made it on the ballot. What this means is that out of the record 94 women who ran for congress 14% espoused some belief in QAnon
3/ These statistics are very important as @Blyth_Crawford and I highlight women are not only underrepresented in politics, but their role in extremists movements is still perceived through a gender biased lens.
1/ First lets take a look at the QAnon community. There are 6 themes that I found common throughout the communities (there are more obviously)
2/ Same in the movement still push the narrative that this is all part of the plan and will lead to the revelation of some great corruption or some great plot. Though this type of hopium was in the minority as opposed to past QAnon narratives
3/ a fair amount pushed the narrative that this was a DS plot and may even count as a victory for them; however, patriots and anons are wise to their plan and will not fall for theirs deception.
1/ For those who were not available for the presentation here is my slides and some comments. Link to the presentation is here
2/ as it stands I have found QAnon communities in 85 countries. Now there is no exact science to this as attribution via social media data is extremely unreliable. (anyone who say otherwise is lying)
3/ The way I evaluate this is based on if QAnon content is translated into foreign languages, is QAnon content adapted to local socio-political contexts, are adherents adapting and manipulating QAnon narratives to fit their context,etc.
1/ Today Yahoo News published a story about a report from the Soufan Center on how China and Russia were fueling Qanon conspiracy theories. The report has a problematic methodology in regards to how it uses and perceives data, also the report has a weak grasp of QAnon.
2/ First lets get something clear, the report claims to be data driven, however, there is no explanation of the data sources (I am assuming it is @crowdtangle ). If that is the case then there should be a methodological explanation. If not that should be explain as its important
3/ That data sample is a fraction of what I collected from January to August 2020 there were 1.65M posts in the 416 QAnon pages and Groups I was curating. Considering they claim a full year of collection I do not think their sample is large enough
"The Duke of Edinburgh died of natural causes, but QAnon believers are sharing the rumor that he died as a result of being vaccinated against COVID-19."
High profile deaths linked to the vaccine will be a continued trend. vice.com/en/article/93y…
QAnon and other Conspriacy theory circles are sharing that DMX also does shortly after getting the covid vaccine.
Though it may seem odd, if you can confirm it with a Qdrop then it must be true, doesn't matter how convoluted the path an adherent must take to get there. The difficulty makes it more legitimate as any military intelligence op could not function if everyone could see it.